It is one of the great joys that I have had in Congress to get to help, serve on this committee to help the National Science Foundation.

The fact that we are still flying a rocket engine that has fundamentally been designed by Robert Goddard in the 1920s is just inexcusable.

We are entrusted with the task of allocating very scarce and precious, hard-earned tax dollars and it is vitally important, of course, that we be very careful to ensure that those hard-earned tax dollars are spent wisely and targeted very…

We want to make sure that you have got the plutonium necessary for future missions.

It is very important to us that they get it right.

I am certainly going to do everything I can to change the law so that we get the best recommendations and the best minds at NASA.

I just want you to understand how important this is to me.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the milestone in the life of Mrs. Alliefair Rogers who, this week, is celebrating her 100th birthday. Mrs. Rogers is also, incidentally, a second-generation centurion, as her mother, Ida Jane, also…

Democrats want to run the country and Republicans don't want them to.

It is unacceptable for taxpayers hard-earned dollars to fund backroom deals to support the rulemaking process.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I think the question that was just asked, Mr. Speaker, on the floor is: Do we have the courage to tell first responders and others that we will fund and put forward a bill to keep…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. It has been really an interesting morning discussing what we could do, what we not do, and what we have done, and, actually, the fact and the process of the House doing its job again…

Mr. Speaker, again, I greatly respect my friends across the aisle, but we do have to understand exactly what we are bringing forward is not a bill we are bringing forward to shut down the government. We are bringing something forward to…

Mr. Speaker, there is something I will agree with the previous speaker on. I agree this is not about the President. It is about the process. It is about what we have all gone through and said, this is how a bill becomes the law. If we need…

Mr. Speaker, at this point in time, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa).

Mr. Speaker, at this time, I am pleased to yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess), my good friend, who is a member of the Rules Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of a rule and the underlying bill that would provide for funding for the Department of Homeland Security for 3 weeks. This short, six-line resolution, House Joint Resolution 35, would provide certainty…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 129 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 129 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…