Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, it is going to take a lot more engineers to get this place operating a lot better, but this was a step. Mr. Whitfield wasn't here when I was bragging on him, Mr. Speaker…

Mr. Speaker, how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Vermont has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Well, I will just close briefly. I don't believe we have any other speakers. Again, there are several things here: One is the wisdom of an energy efficiency policy, less is more; and whether you are consuming oil or solar, if you use less…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Chairman Upton, Chairman Whitfield, and Ranking Members Waxman and Rush, I thank all of you for working with us to move this bipartisan legislation today. Mr. Whitfield, I want to…

Mr. Speaker, today, I urge the House of Representatives to pass this bipartisan energy efficiency legislation, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2014, that would take a best practices approach to achieving optimal performance levels…

I thank the gentlewoman from California for her leadership on behalf of families all across the country. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge all of our colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 3370 that will fix this flood insurance debacle. A…

I have a great deal of respect for the workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain as long as there is a fair playing field.

I come from a fairly, I think, unique perspective, is that I am a small-business owner of a specialty printing firm who is a union shop.

You know, my perspective, I guess, as an employer--let me just take the broader on this.

Mr. Chabot. No.

I think the purpose--those that are voting no are not opposed to any of these particular groups having access, equal access to the contracts that are available, but we think it ought to be an equal opportunity and we ought not to pick…

Mr. Speaker, today, we continue our pursuit of a true all- of-the-above energy policy as the House considers H.R. 2126, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act. I am very pleased that this bill combines four individual bipartisan proposals…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Waters, and thank you to the Republican leadership who brought this up. We often hear in this Chamber over and over again a talk of a financial bankruptcy that is plaguing or potentially plaguing our…

I also believe as we listen and we understand that we take an unbiased and objective point of view that if we are ever going to have peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians that we also hear and try to understand as much as…

This House must stop paying for murderers. Stop it today.

I think this was done fairly.

Look, I think I am going to give a shameless shout-out for one of my bills, the Secret Ballot Protection Act, which I think right now we need, more than ever we need.

If there are opportunities to work together to streamline the election process, like filing documents electronically, we are more than eager to help achieve a reasonable goal.