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Mr. Speaker, today we begin debate on H.J. Res. 2, the balanced budget amendment. This resolution is similar to the amendment that nearly passed the Congress over 15 years ago. I can only imagine how much improved our current fiscal…
Mr. President, I call up three amendments. The first amendment is amendment No. 1215, the second is amendment No. 1139, and the third is amendment No. 1140. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, the clerk will…
I yield the floor, and I would suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. President, I would first of all like to thank Chairman Levin and Ranking Member McCain for their work on this national defense authorization bill, and tonight I will speak to an amendment I filed. I will not call it up for now. I just…
Mr. President, I firmly believe that members of the public must have access to the information contained in annual consumer confidence reports, which are required by the Safe Drinking Water Act's right-to-know provisions. For the past 11…
I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendments Nos. 1215, 1139, and 1140
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to set those three amendments aside. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. President, this Saturday, November 19, marks the 148 Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. In this address, President Abraham Lincoln famously said, ``The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never…
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this conference report, which includes the fiscal year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. I want to thank my colleague and ranking…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in favor of House Joint Resolution 2 and sending a balanced budget amendment to the United States Senate and to the States. Congress has nobly, yet unexpectedly, tried seven times to stop the increasingly massive…
it has been the environmental groups that have been killing jobs and tying things up.
Mr. Thompson. Absolutely. The United States taxpayers and the citizens here. I appreciate that.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to remove my name as a cosponsor of H.R. 3086. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fleischmann). Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania? There was no objection…
``General Electric, the Nation's largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010.'' These were the opening words of a March 24 New York Times article. The article continued to explain that GE paid zero taxes in the U.S. in 2010…
Madam Speaker, this is a tale of two jobs programs. In the first, the government moves to put $500 million in loans in a private company. These loans are supposed to build a factory and create what the Vice President calls permanent jobs…
We have Treasury, OMB, people from Solyndra, and people from the White House who said the government is a crappy venture capitalist.
I hope--sir, I'm asking if you can cite something for me and get back to us to show us where in the law it says you don't have to pay attention to the law?