Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the subject of this Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of discussion recently about extending benefits to the unemployed, and it is critical we do that. I would like to talk about 226 people who are in my district who have jobs but still can't come to work to…

Mr. Speaker, our priority in Congress should be to find solutions, to boost our economy and get people back to work. While we are still working to get our economy back on track, Americans need to be able to feed their families and support…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to highlight yet another of the unintended consequences of the Democratic health care law. Because of the employer mandate in ObamaCare, our volunteer fire departments and emergency response organizations are at risk of…

Extending unemployment insurance benefits will ensure that the 1.3 million workers whose benefits were cut off on December 28th will get the support that they need.

I know that we are making progress on an agreement to provide a one-year extension of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for more than six months in the United States Senate.

Mr. President, I wish to thank the Senator from Michigan, my chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and I simply wish to make a few comments about this afternoon's proceedings with respect to unemployment insurance. The reason we were…

I'm confident that these individuals will serve their country well.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the top three award winners for the 2013 Penn State University Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest. Students for the competition are nominated by their classmates in recognition of their…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to continue with our 50 floor speeches marking the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty. Now, yesterday, we were joined by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson's eldest daughter, Lynda Johnson…

An emergency exists in the State of West Virginia and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts.

This is very timely, and it is something that the State of South Carolina is very interested in as well.

I don't want to see the mitigation efforts be so cost-prohibitive and so large and cumbersome that it doesn't allow the seismic activity to happen off of South Carolina's coast because we want to see those resources developed.

Congressman, let me at the outset thank you for the opportunity to provide some clarity to the discussion and the lack of debate, many times, in this House about what is really important to the American people. That clarity is important to…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to commemorate a milestone in our Nation's history. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before Congress and declared an unconditional war on poverty. As we reflect on this war, I am inspired by the…

Mr. Speaker, it is a new year. We come down and begin this week, and I have made a commitment, as I think many of us do, as resolutions on what are we going to do for the new year and you always try to learn something new, and today has…

Mr. Speaker, in 1964, when President Johnson declared war on poverty, this, the richest Nation in the world, had a poverty rate of 19 percent. By 1973, 9 years later, that rate had been brought down to 11 percent. We were definitely…

I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, thank you for your oversight of this evening. The gentlelady and I do not agree at all on football, she being from Missouri and my being an Oklahoma State fan, but we do agree on this. This is a…