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Louie Gohmert
@louiegohmert· Republican · TX· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Chairman, as read, this would transfer $35.956 million into an account under the bill that specifies, ``shall be for National Guard counterdrug program.'' We have spoken with people on the border. They know the problems they are…

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Louie Gohmert
@louiegohmert· Republican · TX· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I want to express my appreciation to the Appropriations Committee for the appropriations process. I think we are all better when we have open amendments and have a chance to have everybody have input. It is a nasty process…

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Louie Gohmert
@louiegohmert· Republican · TX· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $35,956,000)''. Page 36, line 14, after the…

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Alan Lowenthal
@alanlowenthal· Democratic · CA· Jun 18, 2014

Chairman Frelinghuysen and Ranking Member Visclosky, thank you for providing me this time to speak on the floor today. Mr. Chairman, as we all know, providing science, technology, engineering, and math education to America's youth is…

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Alan Lowenthal
@alanlowenthal· Democratic · CA· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Chairman, I urge support of this amendment and yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Lowenthal). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment…

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Chairman, first of all, I rise to offer a very simple amendment to direct the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to increase individual grant amounts issued through the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program. I would like…

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Jun 18, 2014

I thank the ranking member. I thank both the gentlemen for their comments, their support of this research. When I was injured 34 years ago, I was told that I would never walk again, that spinal cord injury repair was just too difficult, it…

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 33, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $30,000,000) (increased by $30,000,000)''…

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Alan Lowenthal
@alanlowenthal· Democratic · CA· Jun 18, 2014

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''. The…

Congressional Record · 2014-06-18
Jackie Speier
@jackiespeier· Democratic · CA· Jun 18, 2014

Is it true that Mr. Bresland resurfaced as a paid consultant to Chevron, criticizing the very investigation that he was involved in starting?

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 18, 2014

Takes a lot of wind, though, to replace a nuclear power plant.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 18, 2014

I believe it is important to talk about this, given the fact that nuclear is the only base load power supply that runs around the clock without producing carbon.

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Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2014

no single action to reduce carbon pollution will ever stop climate change but we will never address this problem without many individual actions, so these actions do add up to a meaningful difference.

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Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2014

I want to welcome and thank you, Administrator McCabe, for joining us here and for your testimony.

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John Yarmuth
@johnyarmuth· Democratic · KY· Jun 18, 2014

So my question is to you, assuming--it is not easy to move a manufacturing company. Ford has almost a couple billion dollars invested in my district, in their two plants. They just can't pick up and leave even if the energy went up.

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John Yarmuth
@johnyarmuth· Democratic · KY· Jun 18, 2014

And not one of those users of electricity objected to that law, proposed law, and said they were either for it or neutral on it, saying, 'We could live with it.'

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John Yarmuth
@johnyarmuth· Democratic · KY· Jun 18, 2014

I am glad the chairman mentioned Waxman-Markey earlier in his opening remarks, because I was one of a group of 10 or 12 or so Representatives from States that were heavily dependent on carbon, on coal-based energy, who went to our…

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