Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 3826. I appreciate the work that the bills's sponsor, Mr. Whitfield, has done on this issue, and I am proud to be an original cosponsor of this bill. Wisconsin relies on coal for roughly…

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the SIMPLE Fairness Act and thank the leadership of the gentlelady from Kansas in this area. Back home, my people are frightened about the Affordable Care Act. They don't think it is a waste of…

Do you think you'll have all, assuming the railroad complies with every deadline you've set, do you think you'll have all these towers agreed to?

I'm going to keep track of this topic and if it's like November 2015, whenever it's finally done, I'm going to come back and ask you how you thought these towers were all supposed to be done by the end of 2015.

I would say if we expand the law or expand the deadline, and there is some kind of partial deployment, I'd strongly encourage you to think about that as a trial run.

I want to thank Senator Warner for his leadership and his continued interest in these areas.

I thought Senator Heitkamp made a particularly helpful observation about, you know, you obviously have a lot more shipping going on.

the idea that we can, the government, can drag its feet as long as it has and then suddenly, in the middle of the year before this has to be completed, the next year, the government can assert that there's plenty of time for the railroads…

Must be implemented by the end of 2015 to the maximum extent possible.

I look forward to our opportunity to work together on this committee.

Your view is that in the strike force, on a rule that was existing, it had been out there for how long; we talking years, months, days?

Are we looking to expand this program further in the Pacific and Africa Commands AOR?

I greatly appreciate the commitment to the rebalance in the fiscal year 2015 budget.

Do you think it encroaches on First Amendment?

Would there be any way that we could lift these restrictions on the spending of these funds?

Madam Speaker, my colleagues, there is a cancer growing in the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as much of a Democrat as I am, I hate to see this happen because our government is based on a two-party system. Now this…

It is absolutely no question that there is vast areas that we could be working together.

I would really appreciate to see how many Americans are suffering because the Congress is not moving forward.