Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed.

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to H.R. 5982, the so-called Midnight Rules Relief Act, which amends the Congressional Review Act. This bill would allow Congress to consider a joint…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. On election day, the American people delivered a resounding message to Washington: do not continue the Obama administration's policies; stop the regulatory Big Government onslaught…

Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, the majority leader and the committee chairs sent a letter to hundreds of government departments and agencies, saying stop, stop with the overregulation of our economy. It is time to stop this. We heard the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson). The amendment was rejected. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This amendment encourages two of the worst features of Washington bureaucracy. First, it gives heel-dragging, inefficient agencies a powerful incentive to take even longer to…

Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes appeared to have…

Mr. Chair, the Midnight Rules Relief Act leaves to each Congress, making use of its maximum flexibility, to fashion a midnight rule disapproval resolution. No one category of regulation is in; no one category of regulation is out. The…

Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Issa), a member of the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. As the Obama administration comes to a close, Americans' freedom and prosperity is once again threatened by one of the most abusive features of modern bureaucracy: midnight…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on H.R. 5982. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hill). Is there objection to the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot), the chairman of the Small Business Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) for their fine work. I rise today in support of H.R. 6297, the Iran Sanctions Extension Act. When Congress considered the Joint…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4665 is indeed a bipartisan bill, which my colleagues Congressman Dave Reichert, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Congressman Peter Welch, and I introduced. The bill would direct the Department of Commerce's Bureau…

I just think we in Congress have a responsibility to revisit that issue and address it in a responsible way so that the Secret Service is adequately compensated and your mission is successful.

Can't take anything for granted because polls can be wrong. You can't take anything for granted because it's kind of been a season of surprises.

They are raising money all the way through November 8th to try to spend, get on the air, make sure they have the ground game in place.

It's an insult to American voters and it's an insult to county registrars to say that America doesn't know how to run an election. We know how to run an election. And this is clearly a guy who feels like he's losing and is trying to whine…