It's important we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 and why it must keep up with inflation.

A minimum wage of $10.10 would bring me closer to that goal.

Mr. Speaker, I am rising today in strong support of the Hire More Heroes Act introduced by my friend, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis). When he first came to me with this idea, it was a no-brainer that I would want to support…

If we are going to be able to maintain that capability, we are going to have to make some very, very tough choices going forward.

So these are some tough choices that we have to make, and figure out.

The good news is we do still have the most powerful, capable Navy and Marine Corps in the world.

We are a significant deterrent to what North Korea would otherwise do.

I don't see how we can maintain 11 aircraft carriers at that budget.

We have to see how the money is being spent, so congratulations on that great achievement.

There is strong bipartisan support for getting a 300-ship Navy.

I think it is important sometimes to remember the Budget Control Act is not like we are helpless in front of it, and sequestration to boot.

the historical precedent of sequestration in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Congress came together on a bipartisan basis with a balanced package of deficit reduction, turned off those chainsaws that were put into place with Gramm-Rudman.

Your commitment to getting us there is based on real results. It is not a talking point for you.

I want to thank the witnesses for being here today.

Americans are tired of being caught in the middle of retransmission disputes.

It is my hope that we can definitively answer that question.

Mr. Speaker, on March 21, the Neil Simpson coal-fired power plant unit in Gillette, Wyoming, is going to shut down 10 years before its useful life is up. And it is shutting down because the EPA created this rule called Boiler MACT. That…

Are you here to testify then that these weather events absolutely were caused by climate change?