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Maxine Waters
@maxinewaters· Democratic · CA· Mar 4, 2014

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker and Members, I am very proud and very pleased about this bipartisan effort to fix a serious problem in this country. As a matter of fact, we should all be pleased because it is said by the…

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Maxine Waters
@maxinewaters· Democratic · CA· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts, Representative Lynch, who is a member of the Financial Services Committee and is also the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and…

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Maxine Waters
@maxinewaters· Democratic · CA· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California, Representative Garamendi, who has been advising us that we really do have to make changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, and I thank him for his work.

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Maxine Waters
@maxinewaters· Democratic · CA· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from New York, Representative Maloney, the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

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David Valadao
@davidvaladao· Republican · CA· Mar 4, 2014

Well, one of the things that I see, because I am a dairy farmer myself, and I do farm a little bit of row crops as well, we see a lot of product come out onto the marketplace, and we struggle to get either released or approved by whatever…

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Royce, for yielding me time. And I thank the gentlewoman from Florida, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, for her work on this bill. H.R. 938 recognizes…

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, later this month, in the State of Wyoming, a coal-fired power unit is going to shut down production for the very last time. This is going to happen 10 years before its useful life has diminished. This is happening because of…

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David Valadao
@davidvaladao· Republican · CA· Mar 4, 2014

the moratorium was set in 2008, and little has changed since then.

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David Valadao
@davidvaladao· Republican · CA· Mar 4, 2014

Through science, we have seen many breakthroughs in agriculture that improve crop yields, dairy productivity, and feed-to-grain ratios.

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David Valadao
@davidvaladao· Republican · CA· Mar 4, 2014

WIC is obviously something that is important to a lot of those people in the area.

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David Valadao
@davidvaladao· Republican · CA· Mar 4, 2014

Do you think that our overburdened regulation such as rules treating milk spills like oil spills... were also to blame?

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Andy Barr
@andybarr· Republican · KY· Mar 4, 2014

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.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act (HR 3370), and would like to thank Mr. Grimm and Mr. LoBiondo, all our colleagues from New Jersey, and the Republican leadership for working…

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 4, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to thank Ms. Ros- Lehtinen and Mr. Deutch for sponsoring this expertly-crafted and timely legislation. It is also a substantive bill. It expands our relationship with our closest ally by supporting the Iron Dome…

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Adam Smith
@adamsmith· Democratic · WA· Mar 4, 2014

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

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Adam Smith
@adamsmith· Democratic · WA· Mar 4, 2014

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

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Adam Smith
@adamsmith· Democratic · WA· Mar 4, 2014

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

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Adam Smith
@adamsmith· Democratic · WA· Mar 4, 2014

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

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