
It's just simply madness. Of course the President has the right to challenge results in court, to have recounts. But this effort to subvert the vote of the people is dangerous and destructive of the cause of democracy.
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It's just simply madness. Of course the President has the right to challenge results in court, to have recounts. But this effort to subvert the vote of the people is dangerous and destructive of the cause of democracy.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of this bill to rename the new Federal courthouse in Utah after my good friend, Senator Orrin G. Hatch. He is my friend. He was, in many ways, my mentor. He has been a…

I think it's nuts to bring to that into the Senate.

Madam Speaker, today I rise in support of the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act. This important bill eliminates the mandatory five-month waiting period for patients with ALS seeking to access the Social Security Disability Insurance…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, with apologies, lions and tigers and bears, oh my. I have to say that before somebody else does it. But we also have to realize, as we are going through the…

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick).

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, once again, I have no objection to this particular bill. I do have objections to the process we are going through. The House has already passed a bill. It went to the…

Twenty years from now, come back here, and we will tell the gentleman we told him so. Madam Speaker, I have no objections to the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Is the gentleman sure he really wants the Federal Government having a forest in his place?

Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record two documents. The first document is the dissenting views that Republicans filed on this bill in the committee. The second is the summary of problems that the Department of Commerce Inspector General…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, once again I appreciate the comments that are made in defense of this organization, but as I said before, this is a 30-year- old problem. Unfortunately, NOAA Corps is not…

The NOAA Corps is a very small, underutilized but uniformed service group. It prevents questions with this type of group, with their history that they have, first of all: Why should they exist in the first place? But more significantly…

Mr. Speaker, I am assuming I have the traditional 15 minutes remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 16\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Hice), who is the sponsor of this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young), the dean of our Congress, so he can speak on this bill, and then I will correct the Record afterwards. (Mr. YOUNG asked and was given permission to revise and extend…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. With that mask, it is a lot easier to do that, too. I appreciate the offer to be involved in this lameduck session here today. It is one of those things that you have to take in some…