Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin). (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Speaker, I want to remind my good friend from South Carolina that the Keystone pipeline is in the Senate bill. With that, Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from California, Mrs. Susan Davis.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to claim time in opposition as the designee of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin), and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Unemployment rates, according to a recent report this morning, fell in 43 States…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank the 89 Senators--50 Democrats and 39 Republicans--for their bipartisan agreement to extend the current payroll tax cut, unemployment insurance benefits…

Mr. Speaker, I will just simply say that if you are looking for a bipartisan approach to legislation, if you are looking for someone who wants to work with the White House, 90 percent of our offsets have been agreed to by the President…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 502 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 502 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter), pending which I yield myself as much time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution…

House Resolution 502 provides for a motion to go to conference on H.R. 3630 and for a closed ruled on H. Res. 501. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this rule and the underlying bill. {time} 0920 To be honest, Mr. Speaker, being here…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I'm not quite sure if I heard the gentlelady from New York correctly, but she seemed to allude, or to suggest, that the President might not pass the omnibus bill because of this bill, which sounds…

Mr. Speaker, I enjoy listening to my friends on the left talk about how they need to get on our side and stop the tax increases. But the funny problem is that the American people may like what they say, but they don't like what they do. I…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia, my cousin, Austin Scott.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from California, the great chairman of the Rules Committee, David Dreier. (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt the American people are afraid. They're afraid of the party on the left. They're afraid because the party on the left raided $500 billion out of Medicare to pay for a national health care Ponzi scheme…

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. Now, the only way for us to really instill certainty in the unemployed and in those 160,000 million Americans who would like to continue to have their tax cut is for us to pass the Senate compromise…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute. I would like to say to my colleagues on the other side that there is much more to legislation than a time line--2 months of certainty or we could go with the bill that this House passed. It was a year…

Madam Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 4 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, December 20, 2011, at 9 a.m…

Madam Speaker, pursuant to clause 4 of rule XVI, I move that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion. The motion was agreed to. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, last Tuesday House Republicans successfully passed a bill that protects every American taxpayer and promotes job creation by extending the payroll tax cut, reforming unemployment insurance, and providing Medicare payments to…