Thank you very much, Mr. McGovern. What the McGovern-Jones amendment seeks to do is begin that debate, to get us on course and to allow this House of Representatives to discuss what in the world should come next. I want to thank the…

Let me thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership. This is such an important amendment, such an important debate. No one in this House would ever defend the deplorable actions of Colonel Qadhafi and the decades he has spent…

I do intend to withdraw this amendment, but I'd like to just say why I offered it and why I think this debate is so important. We're talking about now trying to address a deficit, which we all want to address. We do not want to leave this…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle A of title X of division A, add the following new section: SEC. 10__. LIMITATION IN…

I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for his leadership on this bill. Mr. Chairman, it is so interesting to me. We had a 2,700-page health care bill that basically was a government takeover of health care. What we have heard from so many…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. If enacted, this bill will open up areas of the Outer Continental Shelf where there are the greatest known oil and gas reserves that contain billions of barrels of oil. With resources like these, it is a…

I represent the Tennessee Ninth Congressional District, which is Memphis. Memphis has been in the news quite a bit these past few weeks, and partly it's been for a bad reason: a flood, the greatest flood since 1937 on the Mississippi…

First, let me thank the gentlelady from Florida for yielding and for her leadership on so many issues, especially as it relates to her community, her district, Haitians, Haiti, and the Haitian diaspora. I rise in support of H.R. 1016, the…

Finally, we must continue to support the Haitian Public Health Ministry to prevent the spread of cholera, treat those affected with the disease, and build up health systems. The international community must plan for the long-term presence…

In this vein, we must give special priority to programs that protect vulnerable populations, including internally displaced persons--women, children, persons with disabilities, and others. We must ensure that these populations are…

These women in the District have already begun to feel the terrible effects of the rider passed already in the CR. This is outrageous. It's ideologically driven and it's dangerous. So let's reject this bill and this attack and this…

I want to thank our ranking member for his leadership and for leading for so many years on so many important issues. Madam Speaker, here we go again. Instead of working on creating jobs and jump-starting the economy, we're debating another…

I think every Member of the House probably wants to do the same thing that Mr. McCotter did and I am going to do, and that is to congratulate and thank the Commander in Chief, the President; our Armed Forces, our men and women in the…

Let me thank our cochairs, Congressmen Ellison and Grijalva, for their tremendous leadership. Budgets are not just dollars and cents. They are moral documents that reflect who we are and what we believe in. The Republican budget is an…

I appreciate the chairman for yielding to me, and I appreciate the opportunity to stand and speak against the Progressive Caucus budget because it is a budget that, once again, will spend too much money. Mr. Chairman, one of the things…

I want to thank the gentleman from Washington for yielding and also for his leadership. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this continuing resolution. Budgets are moral documents that reflect who we are as a Nation. They're not…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the privilege of the floor be granted to Mitchell McBride, an intern on my staff. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I want to commend our President for taking a mature and comprehensive approach to the problems we face. When people have a need to lose weight, they both reduce their caloric content and they increase their exercise. It's the same thing…