I appreciate the opportunity to offer this commonsense amendment to protect American jobs and reduce regulatory burdens. Quite simply, this amendment would block the Department of Energy from implementing unnecessary energy conservation…

I'd like to thank both the chairman and the ranking member of the subcommittee for the opportunity to discuss an important problem in our Nation's nuclear security infrastructure and for their support of this amendment. The amendment would…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 30, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $17,319,000) (increased by $17,319,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I appreciate that very much. With that assurance, I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry). The amendment was agreed to.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 37, line 15, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1) (increased by $1)''. The CHAIR. The…

This is to request a dollar in and a dollar out to be used in that process for the inspector general to look into the VA Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction, which is a subdivision of the Office of Construction and…

We create 20,000 jobs building this pipeline, and we have a relationship with China where we access the second or third largest reserve. And the gentleman is right. There's a pipeline that they're building to go off west so the Chinese can…

I thank the gentleman, and I rise in strong support of the gentleman from Georgia's motion to instruct conferees to support the Keystone pipeline in the transportation bill. Let's start with a quick tutorial here. Right here above the…

I thank Chairman McKeon and Ranking Member Smith for accepting my amendment as part of this en bloc package. In the last months of the Bush Administration, a change was made authorizing veterans and active-duty military not in uniform to…

My priorities for the region are threefold and intertwined. First, it is to prevent widescale conflict, protect Israel...

I think it is worth noting that your background and commitment to this region provides a deep reservoir of experience.

I thank the gentleman. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of this bill. It's a sensible bill that builds a necessary pillar in the cybersecurity strategy of our Nation. I've immersed myself in cybersecurity over the last couple of years…

As I was shopping for some family items recently, I noted how difficult it is to find items that are made in America. While American manufacturing is, encouragingly enough, on the rebound, products ranging from hairbrushes to iPods still…

Let me be clear. I didn't say the United States.

It doesn't function well, you are correct. But somehow it functions.

The United States is not going to stand by idly and watch this kind of brutality. It is not who we are, and the times in which that has happened we go back and question ourselves.

But I think the central question here is, what does a post-Assad regime governance structure look like?