He was one of the smartest men I have ever heard.

He thought the main reason was--is that it is so hard, it is very difficult to get rid of poor, or bad, or incompetent employees in the public sector.

He said right now we are a long ways from that.

I thank my friend and my colleague for yielding. I thank him for the work that he has done, as well as Mr. Whitfield, Mr. McKinley, Ms. Castor, and staff on both sides of the aisle. It feels good to come to the floor to speak on a package…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am very happy to stand in support of my bill, H.R. 2197, the York River Wild and Scenic Rivers Study Act, and I want to start by thanking Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Grijalva, and tonight Mr…

I do think there is particular interest in some of the things that you talked about, the actively-engaged rules.

Mr. Speaker, I want to take a moment to say to Mr. Hastings, I really do appreciate the work you have done in your committee, the bipartisan activity in your committee, and truly for your assistance in bringing this bill to the floor. I…

I thank the gentleman. The Federal Government is the Nation's largest landowner, largest employer, and largest energy user, and so we should lead by example in improving the energy efficiency of our own data centers within the Federal…

Mr. Speaker, I want to talk for a minute about two very special young girls from Waterville, Maine. Gabbie St. Peter and Alice Willette both celebrated their eighth birthdays last month and are in the second grade at the George J. Mitchell…

Nothing gets under people's skin like this idea that there are crop subsidies going out there that don't go to farmers.

I take it from your testimony that FSOC has failed to properly coordinate and limit this--the contradiction that we see in a lot of these regulations.

strong funding for the CFTC reduces the deficit in many more ways than a lot of other actions

I believe that it is critical for public and private sector leaders to continue to push for the development of a strong cybersecurity industry that can protect our economic and national security interests.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this act. It is really just common sense, is it not? And I think it best exemplifies how America handles crises. They adjust. They make an adjustment. This…

He cares also about infrastructure, about transportation, about investments in research.

The President wants to get to that vision of the $56 billion by increasing taxes and making cuts to entitlements.

the $26 billion that the President has asked for, he is very serious about

the impacts we have seen on transportation, you know, our infrastructure is just way behind.