I think, clearly, that new super-bureaucracy is going to have a huge impact, and in my view is going to be a huge threat to the continued viability of community banks.

I think the regulatory environment as it applies to community banks is critically important.

I am very, very concerned about that new threat to community banks created by Dodd-Frank.

Mr. President, America's illegal immigration problem is clearly way out of control. We can all agree that we desperately need to better protect our borders, ensure that only citizens and legal residents can be hired for jobs in this…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Christensen. I am so proud to be a member of the Congressional Black Caucus with a 40-year history and legacy of fighting for justice and looking out for the most vulnerable and giving voice to people who…

Thank you, Dr. Christensen. I just want to take a moment to yield to my colleague, vice chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus from the great State, my original home State of North Carolina, G.K. Butterfield.

I would like to thank Congresswoman Christensen for the time. And just a reminder that today, April 4, is a sad remembrance in some ways of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, some 43 years ago. It is…

Thank you, Congressman Butterfield, for your leadership as vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, but also for your reminder of our so important history that is linked both to the struggle of African Americans in this country, to…

I thank the gentleman from New York and appreciate your leadership and your being here this evening to mark this day with us for workers. With that, I yield to the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Mrs. Christensen).

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership and in bringing us together in these important hours on the floor of the House of Representatives to discuss the issues that are of the deepest concern to communities of color, to working families…

Thank you, Mr. Tonko. With that, I'd like to yield to Congresswoman Christensen.

Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the gentleman from Minnesota for raising this point of order. I join in support of the point of order. First of all, it is time for us to create jobs, and we haven't created jobs and we are 13 weeks…

Madam Speaker, I am really dumbfounded as to why we are here today. I sat back and I closed my eyes, and I remembered that my favorite grade was fifth grade, and now I remember why my favorite grade was fifth grade: because, as my…

Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the manager's amendment. This amendment would extend the moratorium on safety regulations for human spaceflight launches for 8 years after the first licensed human spaceflight launch. With these types…

The health care bill cuts Medicare Advantage by $206 billion, and those cuts are going to result in millions of seniors no longer selecting Medicare Advantage coverage either because those plans will no longer be available to some seniors…

And how much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. There is 30 seconds remaining for the gentlewoman from Maryland.

The need for a long-term Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, reauthorization act is clear; but H.R. 658 reauthorizes the FAA for 4 years, and the arbitrary spending cuts that our Republican colleagues have imposed on the agency in H.R…