Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3979) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of the bill under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would like to begin by first rising in support of this bill, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act. I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. This is such a commonsense and important bill, and this challenge was brought to me as well by one of my local firefighters, the fire chief of Magnolia Volunteer Fire Department…

I am not prepared to support the bill in its current version, but I am prepared to work with Chairman Walden, Chairman Upton, Ranking Member Eshoo to get a bill we could all stand behind.

Mr. Speaker, yielding myself such time as I may consume, I have about 4 or 5 additional speakers to move through on this important bill. At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly), a fellow member of the…

Mr. Speaker, we have no other speakers, and so I yield back the balance of my time.

I have been long concerned about rail safety.

I think we are playing a bunch of games, but I am telling you those truckers just got me by the collar and said the technology is there, but we are in another era.

Maybe for the record--don't mean to interrupt, but maybe for the record, just to substantiate what you are saying, is how many more you have processed.

I just wanted to substantiate what is going on, and what our intent was.

I think that is horrible, terrible, bad.

Try not to screw my State this time, too, like they did in the first round.

I want to first thank the President and the administration for making sure that in its New Starts budget proposals, it includes funding for the long sought-after Purple Line here, in the national capital region, and the Red Line in…

We have participated in five hearings at which we have dug into TSCA, learning the issues section by section.

I would like to call the hearing to order and welcome our guests.

opening statement

I unveiled the discussion draft because I think we need a collaborative process with diverse input.