Madam Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 9, beginning at line 1, strike section 202 (and redesignate the succeeding sections…

Madam Chair, the gentleman's opposition to this amendment is premised on a very interesting, and I would respectfully suggest dangerous, interpretation of what is our responsibility as Members of this House. The gentleman spoke of the need…

I would like to confirm. Therefore, if the language in the bill were very clear that for cases to be brought affecting the leasing and the exploration of oil in the gulf, that if those cases could be brought in any of the Gulf States…

Mr. President, I want to call to the attention of the Senate the fact that a number of State legislatures, including our State legislature in Florida, have been enacting election law bills that severely constrict the right of the people to…

We can, and we must, do a better job of getting our whole act together.

What specific efforts have been made to partner with the states to ensure that TSA is granted access to states' criminal records?

I thank my colleague from Colorado. I rise in strong opposition to the rule and the underlying bill. In the State of Florida, we are still recovering from last year's BP oil blowout disaster. We're recovering economically and…

I rise today in opposition to H.R. 3, but I also rise in great disappointment that the people's House is again engaging in a debate about the rights of women rather than a discussion about the challenges our Nation faces. For months…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to state my strong opposition to H.R. 3. This bill--ostensibly the Republican leadership's third-highest priority--is a reprehensible piece of legislation that will do nothing but put the lives of American women…

Mr. Chairman, if I could just make the final observation----

Mr. Chairman, I am glad that we are discussing a concern that is so important to the folks of my State of Florida and throughout the country: the possible devastation that natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes…

NOAA needs about $800 million for a satellite called the JPSS.

I just want to make the observation that, whereas we have been able to be so sophisticated in our computer modeling... the insurance industry is still set in its ways in economic computer modeling that determines insurance rates.

I think the answer is clearly yes.

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.

I was the one who got (President Barack) Obama to produce the birth certificate, and I think I did a good job.

People have birth certificates. He doesn't have a birth certificate. Now, he may have one, but there's something on that birth certificate, maybe religion, maybe it says he's a Muslim, I don't know.

I have done a great service to the American people.