Mr. 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 8, line 2, strike ``and''. Page 8, line 20, insert ``(except those designated parties…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. First of all, I rise to offer an amendment that would reinforce our commitment to protecting the employment rights of our brave servicemembers. We've all seen this show before, Mr…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I respect the chairman and the gentleman's opinion on this, but I want to be very clear. The only people this applies to is violators of veterans' workplace employment. These are…

I really hope you are hopeful in the right way, that this happens, because, obviously, people are very, very concerned about this.

We like boring stuff in our State.

I would have you talk to the farmers in my State that cannot access their life savings and are not sure when or how much of it they will get back.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak in regard to the National Defense Authorization Act, and in particular to certain sections of that bill which target a serious but often underaddressed problem facing the men and women of our Armed…

Pain is being felt in little towns like Luverne, Minnesota.

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 3094. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Roby). Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of the points of order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's reservation is withdrawn.

Mr. Speaker, this motion to recommit is similar to amendments we have seen earlier today. We had an amendment sort of trying to capitalize on the Occupy Wall Street movement and limit workers' rights because of behavior of executives. This…

Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).

the biofuels or biomass energy industry has lots of promise. But in many ways, it is not there yet.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, want to thank my friend and colleague from Iowa for his service. He, like me, made an early mistake and chose to fly and, even worse, to fly helicopters. He just perhaps was better at it than some of us…

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Minnesota has 2 minutes remaining.

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I, like my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and Americans across the country, can get pretty angry when some officials, corporate officials receive extraordinarily high…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. It's kind of ironic sometimes, but this Occupy Wall Street sort of inspired amendment is an effort to dismantle a successful union election process and deny workers an opportunity to…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time. Let's clear up a few things today we've heard in this debate. It's very interesting. We clearly have a different view, there's no question about it. We've heard repeatedly that this bill…