Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am going to make this short and hopefully sweet because I can't believe for a minute that we don't want to incentivize States to guarantee, at a minimum, the rights we…

Madam Speaker, I think I have said enough, and I will close. I ask for a ``yes'' vote. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I have great admiration for the ranking member of the committee. A lot of things aren't DOD's responsibility, except for the fact that servicemembers are their…

Madam Speaker, I say to my colleagues, this is a really important amendment. This deals with suicide and securing guns. This program will be a pilot. It will be at five installations. It will be voluntary. It is bipartisan and bicameral…

Madam Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle J of title V, insert the following: SEC. 5__. PILOT PROGRAM ON…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, I, too, share a position of working well with my colleague as the ranking member of the Military Personnel Subcommittee. I just feel that he is not appreciating, with all…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of amendment No. 49 on the International Military Education and Training Program. IMET is, as we all know, a prestigious and competitive program that trains…

Mr. Speaker, it wasn't short nor sweet, but I am prepared to close and say this is pretty obvious. This does not take rocket science. All we are doing with this amendment, that is bipartisan and bicameral--maybe the gentleman should talk…

Madam Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the appropriate place in title LVIII, insert the following: SEC. __. GENDER…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This is really astonishing to me, as if servicemembers who are female, who are in States in which they do not have these benefits, should somehow be second-class citizens, I don't…

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1348, insert after line 23 the following (and conform the table of contents…

Madam Speaker, today, I rise to honor and celebrate the life of my constituent, Juan Carlos Reynaga. Juan was 17 years old; he was a lineman for Anaheim High School varsity football team, and he was keeping his grades up. He wanted to…

The way the Senate works, as you know, it’s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

The point -- but I do think there`s an important point to this poll. And that is, we Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is…

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

At a time when we have an enormous Federal budget deficit, for us to do that, unless the gentleman has some pay-fors, would simply expand that deficit further.

Democracy works better where rules are published, and the rules are clear, rather than there are things in a gray area.