Thank you, Mr. Graves. I appreciate your yielding time and I appreciate your bringing this amendment. I rise in strong support of the concept in the amendment. Although I know it's going to be withdrawn, the concept is important, and we…

This week I plan to introduce a bill that will allow States to submit three statues for display in the United States Capitol. This bill seeks to include more diversity among the honored in our Capitol by increasing that number of statues…

At this point I would like to yield 2 minutes to one of our new freshman Members, the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Crawford), who is a broadcaster and brings that expertise to this Chamber.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 228, noes 192, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 11, as follows…

I think we all agree that this Nation's children, our children and our grandchildren are an incredibly important part of our lives and protecting those children, protecting their future. We all agree that it is important that we put this…

At this time I yield 1 minute to one of our freshman Members, the gentleman from the Florida Panhandle (Mr. Southerland). (Mr. SOUTHERLAND asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

In response to this statement that there are no savings, may I point my colleagues to a CRS report on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Federal funding and issues, and I will be happy to submit this for the Record. Reading from it…

At this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King). {time} 1410

Since the previous speaker talked a little bit about NPR and its listening audience, I would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audience. We know that more men than women listen to NPR, except…

I want to clear up what I think are probably a couple of misunderstandings that my colleagues have across the aisle. One of the things I think it's important for everyone in this Chamber to realize, and I know some want to make fun of the…

At this time, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn), the author of the legislation.

I ask that all Members be given 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks on the legislation and to insert extraneous material on the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the…

I think that this is one of those things that's kind of what's wrong around here. Everybody says, Don't do this, don't do this; that's not much money, that's not much money. Mr. Speaker, it all adds up. And the American people have had it…

No one can deny that the increasing costs of the war in Afghanistan are constraining our efforts to invest in job creation and jump-start the economy. Yesterday, I joined a bipartisan group of 80 Members of Congress in sending a letter to…

Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this resolution, of which I'm proud to be an original cosponsor, and I'd like to thank Representative Kucinich for his work on this resolution and also mainly for his…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I do think our colleagues across the aisle are missing the point on this. We are responsible for making certain that this fiscal house gets in order. This is just another of those steps…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to address one thing. This is not an ancient animosity. I don't think I'm quite that old. And I don't think you have to be Dick Tracy to figure out what this debate is about…

I reserve the balance of my time. Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the House, and that any manifestation of approval or…