Norman D. Dicks

I rise in very strong opposition to the gentleman's amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington is recognized for 5 minutes.

I appreciate the sincerity and the gentlelady's commitment to these programs. I have been a supporter of these programs over the years. Triple-negative breast cancer is a very, very aggressive and difficult type of cancer. As the…

I have followed this issue closely ever since the gulf war, and I feel that the gentleman has made a very compelling case. I think we should add this money, and the offset is acceptable. So I urge a ``yes'' vote on the Kucinich amendment…

Regrettably, I have to oppose this amendment. My good friend from Oregon, Mr. Blumenauer, is one of our most thoughtful Members and has been a leader on environmental issues. But in this case, we have already doubled the funding for this…

Unfortunately, that is not the way the gentleman wrote his amendment; so I would stand with my provision which says further reductions risk harm to operations in the defense-wide account. So if you take 10 percent out of the account, it is…

I strongly support the Hastings amendment. In my judgment, the President's initial commitment of U.S. airpower and naval forces to support the international effort was appropriate and certainly within his power as Commander in Chief. The…

First of all, I would like to again thank the chairman for his great work and the work of the staff. The President did lay out the rationale for why we got involved in Libya. He said that we were there to help protect the Libyan people…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from North Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 20 Offered by Ms. Woolsey

Reclaiming my time, I just want to point out, also at the White House picnic, if you walked far enough down, you could see the garden with fresh vegetables and everything that was being grown. It had a label about what was what. Again, I…

It's your amendment, sir. I didn't get up here and offer an amendment that would cut funding.

I would just say to the Chair and to the author of the amendment, who's a doctor, a medical doctor, remember the Hippocratic oath: Do no harm. This amendment, if it is enacted, will deny millions of people getting food. Millions of…

The requested increase for FY 2012 is needed in order to implement the measures put forward in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill and provide oversight and regulation of the options and futures markets that wrought such havoc on our…