Nobody wants to admit that this society allows this to happen at the rate at which it is happening.

Mr. President, I rise this afternoon to speak about an issue we will be voting on today and we have been discussing and debating now for a number of days. We are into our second week of debate about a cut in the payroll tax. Just by way of…

Mr. President, I rise today to speak about Computer Science Education Week, which began on December 4, 2011, and continues until December 10, 2011. This celebration includes events in my home State of Pennsylvania that advance the teaching…

Madam President, what is about to happen is we are going to be taking a vote on a measure that got 20 votes last week--this same vote. I don't know what the vote will be today, obviously, but this is an exercise in futility to vote on this…

Mr. President, I also ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam Speaker, an article in last Monday's Weekly Standard reveals the systematic execution and harvesting of organs in China's prisons. The article provides firsthand accounts of the targeted elimination of religious prisoners, prisoners…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1254) to amend the Controlled Substances Act to place synthetic drugs in Schedule I, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows…

I yield 5 minutes to the prime sponsor of the legislation, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. H.R. 1254 was introduced by my friend and colleague from Pennsylvania, Representative Charlie Dent, in response to a frightening trend of synthetic drug use in our communities. These…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Florida, Congresswoman Sandy Adams, who was formerly in law enforcement.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa, Congressman Tom Latham.

Mr. Speaker, I yield the balance of my time to the prime sponsor of the bill, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, a former prosecutor, Congressman Pat Meehan.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time remains on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 6\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Virginia has 6 minutes remaining.

I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino), a former prosecutor.

I have seen firsthand what this drug does. If it doesn't kill our children, it makes them suicidal; it makes them incredibly violent. And I still get calls, as a former prosecutor, from hospitals and emergency service personnel telling me…

Thank you, Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I recently coauthored a letter with my colleagues, Representative Sandy Adams and Representative Trey Gowdy, concerning this very issue, and I'd like to read just a paragraph: ``As of October 4, 2011, the…

I think my former mayor, Mayor Lee P. Brown was a drug czar, but he was also the head of the Major Chiefs Association.