Mr. Speaker, if we pass this previous question motion that I am making, we can actually begin the important discussion of how we can bring our budget into balance and restore fiscal responsibility. Let's have hearings on the President's…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to talk a little bit more about when we say this bill will never become law what exactly we mean and I mean when I indicate that. There have been an enormous number of bills…

Again, so long as even there are the most frivolous lawsuits and anybody could continually file a lawsuit, and so long as any one of them is pending, the rule does not take effect. It is indefinitely stayed. So, yet again, we are debating…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill. The Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act--certainly, a mouthful to say--is yet another…

Did anybody who was angry bring up brick kilns as something they were angry about? I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to, first of all, congratulate the gentleman from Alabama. He had a recent election and triumphed, and, of course, we will be excited to continue to serve with…

Mr. Speaker, he was a son, a brother, and a soon- to-be groom. David Hofer's life was ripped from this world on March 1, 2 days ago, leaving behind his family and his fiancee. Officer Hofer was 29. He was from Fort Worth, Texas. He was…

When we go back to Washington, we are going to certainly look into this issue about veterans being able to access alternative care within the Choice Program.

I think probably the capacity under the Choice Program is probably somewhat limited in terms of utilizing practitioners within the community that are not in the VA.

I want to thank everybody for their testimony today.

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and not present for rollcall vote No. 108. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on final passage of S. 1826, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 West…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr…

Mr. President, the year was 1936. President Franklin Roosevelt had just been reelected with an overwhelming majority, and he decided he had had enough of the U.S. Supreme Court. They had been striking down some key pieces of legislation in…

Mr. Speaker, we have the opportunity today to help many struggling small businesses and the jobs they support by voting yes on H.R. 4557, the BRICK Act. How did we get here? Last October, the EPA finalized an extremely stringent new rule…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the BRICK Act. I agree with my colleagues that the brick, clay, and tile industries are in a tough position. The Bush administration issued final brick and clay emission standards--or Brick and Clay…

Madam President, I am pleased to see that on the floor we continue to make progress on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. The legislation before us today, yesterday, and this week has been about how to deal with this growing…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in favor of this very important, I think, legislation sponsored by my colleague from Ohio (Mr. Johnson). I want to thank him for his leadership on this bill because it is a very…

I thank Mr. Rothfus, my friend from Pennsylvania. He is exactly right. We have so many people across this Nation who understand the tragedy of taking a child's life before it is fully born. Mr. Speaker, I know there are some people, like…