It is not always that we are able to come together on a bipartisan basis on a major piece of reform legislation.
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The Postal Service as we know it is insolvent. This bill is intended to put it back on the road to solvency.
In an era of partisan politics, this legislation represents a significant bipartisan compromise.
I believe there's work to replace Obamacare, should also begin immediately, meaning that our repeal bill should include as many Obamacare replacement policies as procedures allow.
I reserve the right to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Just the implication that transparency is going to hurt Putin's Russia is prima facie proof that we need these rules. What payments to Putin does Rex Tillerson not want shareholders and the American people to see? Today, we should be…
The opposition to this particular bill goes from coast to coast. We just heard from California. Now we will go back to the East Coast. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Yoho).
I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer), a new Member of Congress, who realizes that this rule is long on regulations and short on real new protections for people. {time} 1445
I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), another State that was promised, in the Clean Water Act, to have authority which was taken away by this simple rule.
Nice to know that 2:30 in the afternoon is the dead of night. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus).
I now have the pleasure of recognizing people who are not on our committee but still know how silly this rule actually is. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Bost.)
I would think it would be reasonable that in return for that... they would say: Yes. Here's my Instagram account.
It's a joke to think that you're not looking at social media.
I have said as much publicly, and I've also--I think everybody should know, every Member of Congress should know that the House Intelligence Committee is really the only organization within Congress that is set up to be able to do that.
This is the kind of judge we want sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court. Someone who reads the law in an effort to decide what it says rather than what he wishes it said.
This is an outstanding nominee. I've argued in front of this judge when he was sitting on the 10th circuit where he announced it. He's an outstanding judge, extraordinary.
The overly partisan treatment of nominees and distortions of their records is a relatively new development on this committee.
Virtually all the attempts I've witnessed to characterize Dr. Price's views as being 'outside of the mainstream' have been absurd.