I hope you will conduct yourselves as independent, responsible leaders and not be pushed around as a result of political pressure.

However, a commission has a duty... to listen to the inputs from politicians or even Senator Reid.

Thank you for yielding, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, it has been discussed throughout this debate this afternoon and this evening that we do face an unprecedented humanitarian emergency with literally thousands of unaccompanied alien…

having an insurance card is not the same as having medical care.

I continue to hear from people in Tennessee who lost their health plan. They liked it. They can't keep it.

we are hearing from some of our Tennessee insurance carriers, they are going to have a 19 percent increase in the health insurance premiums in 2015.

I object to my distinguished chair's motion to consider and pass the MILCON-VA appropriations bill. This is not because I oppose the underlying bill, as I have said. This a bill that has wide bipartisan support. Its support is predicated…

my colleague from North Carolina has just spoken on behalf of the nomination of Robert McDonald to be the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and I will do likewise. He has also spoken of his background as a graduate of West…

Reserving the right to object, our side is eager to schedule floor consideration of appropriations bills with a full and open amendment process, and the MILCON-VA bill would be at the top of our list. Would the Senator from Maryland agree…

I would argue that is probably a pretty poor climate policy.

So what you are saying is, if we don't watch it, we will spend a lot more on preventing than we get in terms of benefit, based on the science that is out there today.

Regulatory costs fall disproportionately more on small businesses than big firms.

I think we should conduct research in those areas. But I don't think we should press down on the brow of the working man on inefficient technologies that require them to pay considerably higher prices for the energy that they consume.

Well, that is a pretty long time.

I want to commend the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Kilmer) for what I consider a straightforward, commonsense amendment. This is an amendment to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, what we commonly call the FACT Act. The FACT…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not opposed. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Alabama is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I would simply recognize Mr. Petri's and Ms. Tsongas' contributions in helping Mr. Kilmer with this amendment--and there may be others. I want to express to the full committee chair our appreciation for supporting this amendment, and I…

I have been in this House now for 6 months, and I regrettably rise today to express my frustration, and I know the frustration of thousands of people in my district in southwest Alabama and, I believe, people all over the United States of…