I heard the same thing on the Republican side of the aisle: Why doesn't the President compromise? The bottom line is that the President is always willing to negotiate on the issues of the budget, as are the House Democrats. But what we are…

The Republicans aren't kidding anyone tonight. They have the ability this evening to take up the continuing resolution that was passed in the Senate. If they passed it here tonight, it would go to the President, we would have a budget, the…

Thank you, Mr. Waxman. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Drug Quality and Security Act. This bill represents a bipartisan, bicameral effort to clarify current pharmaceutical compounding laws and secure our Nation's pharmaceutical drug…

I want to thank, first of all, Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel for drafting this extraordinarily timely and important legislation. This is an essential bill, and it must be passed and signed into law. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday…

I want to thank the gentleman from California and all of my colleagues who came to the floor in the aftermath of that hour from the GOP side of basically criticizing, on the Republican side, the health care reform--the Affordable Care Act…

Tragedy happens, and we say we are shocked. ``This is a quiet neighborhood.'' ``This is a quiet town.'' ``This is a quiet city.'' When you examine the mass shootings in America over the last decade, it becomes abundantly clear that there…

I am opposed to this rule and the underlying bill. My friends on the other side of the aisle like to act like 11 million unemployed Americans are out of work because they want to be out of work. This is a debate between two things, common…

Nearly 30,000 households in my current district benefit from this program. I would ask you to examine the bill and examine your conscience before you---- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend. The Chair would remind Members…

Thank you, Mr. Hastings. I rise, Mr. Speaker, in strong opposition to the rule and the underlying bill before us today, H.R. 761, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013. I just think it goes too far. I urge my…

More troubling, Mr. Speaker, is that recent studies estimate that one-quarter of American jobs are at risk of being outsourced in the coming years. We're not talking about chump change here. This is a lot of jobs. So let's defeat this…

Mr. President, I appreciate my colleague from the Foreign Relations Committee having already objected, but I wish to make a few remarks because there are those--regardless of what is reviewed, regardless of who comes forth, regardless of…

I now yield 3 minutes to the chairman emeritus of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Dingell. (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

The bill before us today is nothing more than another page out of the Republican playbook to delay, derail, and otherwise repeal the Affordable Care Act. Rather than a productive, bipartisan effort to ensure successful implementation…

I ask how much time remains on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey has 5 minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from North Carolina has 6 minutes remaining.

Like my Republican colleagues, I too am concerned about fraud in any public program, whether it's ObamaCare, food stamps, Medicare. Who could be against verification? But this is not about verification. Again, the 41st failed attempt to…

Mr. President, we come to this Chamber as we have many times before--to make one of the most difficult decisions we are tasked to make: the authorization of the use of American military power--this time in Syria, to respond to the horrific…

Mr. President, I rise to speak on behalf of Samantha Power's nomination to be the Ambassador to the United Nations. As I said in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which I chaired, on Ms. Power, her appointment as Ambassador to the…

Mr. President, I appreciate the remarks of my distinguished colleague from Virginia. He is a very thoughtful member of the committee. I appreciate his remarks on behalf of Ms. Power. With that, I yield all remaining time. I ask for the…