I am fearful that this may discourage to some extent our tourism traffic.

As State budgets begin to get strained, this is going to be a problem even more in the out years.

Mr. Speaker, I was unable to be present for rollcall vote No. 249 today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.''

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to also speak about preventing student loan interest rates from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. I am disappointed that partisan gamesmanship is threatening the financial futures of…

Madam Speaker, I will be voting today for H.R. 4133 because I agree with its two basic premises. The alliance between the United States and Israel, including military support, is of critical importance. And we must prevent Iran from…

I rise today to highlight an example of how private sector businesses grow and contribute to our society when they're not suffocated by unnecessarily high taxes, and I rise to dispel a myth that our colleagues continue to perpetuate about…

It is crucial, that as this legislation is implemented, a clear distinction be drawn between 'innocent' owners in the supply chain who in good faith trade in wood products that they believe to be legally harvested abroad, and those who…

we want to be supportive of what the Department and the FHA are doing to ensure the long-term viability of the Federal insurance program.

I have the utmost confidence in Joe Smith, who is the former Commissioner of State Banks in North Carolina.

Madam President, I rise to join my colleagues in calling for passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. I am disheartened that in the last several months petty, partisan gamesmanship has held up this legislation. Since VAWA…

What we are doing here is the same thing we have done to the Student Loan Program and the health--we have nationalized it, suppressed the rates, and now we are telling the American public that if you want to have a student loan at all, you…

I don't think he built it around the private health market because I want to make sure we understand.

How do I respond to my constituents who, back home, said, 'I was told I could keep my doctor but now my doctor won't keep me because of the reimbursement reductions that are being done in Medicare?'

But would it not be in the best interests of every American to have interstate sale of health insurance, over policies that can meet the demands of individual choice?

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. I want to say that our colleagues reveal their attitude toward taxpayer money when they say this will cost us. The attitude of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker, is that all…

Mr. Speaker, I want to point out to my colleague from Massachusetts that if we raise taxes on the oil companies, surely that will be passed along to consumers. Mr. McGOVERN. Will the gentlelady yield?

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this rule. I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous question. The question was…

We have no remaining speakers, and I am prepared to close if the gentleman is prepared to close.