Mr. Speaker, by direction of the House Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration in the House. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 751 Resolved, That the…

Madam Speaker, I move to amend the resolution with the amendment I have placed at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Add the following new section: Sec. 10. (a) In the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Levin for yielding me this time, and for his leadership on this very important issue, and I rise in strong opposition to this legislation. South Carolina, my home State, is home to many military installations--Fort…

So they'll have to bill that cost into the cost of their product.

I certainly plan to oppose it, and I would encourage all of you to think.

I've had a chance to work with a lot of retail businesses. I've been in the marketing business most of my life.

Three percent, about half the whole sales tax in South Carolina just to collect it.

But isn't that putting them at a disadvantage? They're actually paying more tax now than brick and mortars.

I am very, very concerned about what I have heard today.

I agree 100 percent with Representative Smith, I put Americans in jail for 25 years.

Mr. Speaker, in a recent opinion piece submitted to Politico, Jeffrey Zients, the Acting Director for the Office of Management and Budget, wrote: As President Barack Obama has said many times, the sequester wasn't meant to be implemented…

Additionally, in your testimony you indicated this will affect our service members who are serving overseas, actually in the line of fire.

And that is just unfortunate for our country.

Unfortunately it is just far too easy to spend other people's money and when people--or the problem with the Government is when it is not coming out of your own pocket, we have got too many people at the Federal level who are just abusing…

the easiest thing in the world is to spend other people's money, and that it is far too easy.

Mr. Speaker, defense sequestration is a very real danger that will threaten our national security, put our brave men and women in uniform at risk, and destroy up to 1 million jobs across our country. Sadly, the President avoids action on…

Mr. Speaker, since the President took office, his administration has enacted over 400 new government regulations limiting small business owners from creating new jobs. This year alone, the Federal Register has published over 41,000 pages…

the EPA wants Peoria to eliminate as many CSOs as it can afford to eliminate, even though the additional CSOs eliminated... will not result in any meaningful water quality improvements.