On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 422, nays 0, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No. 647]…

I particularly want to thank Mr. Rogers, who has helped shepherd this bill through our committee. I appreciate the very hard work of Chairman Pitts, Ranking Members Waxman and Pallone, along with all the members of our committee to get…

Mr. President, I share my colleague's deep concern with the low water levels in the Great Lakes. This is, without a doubt, a disaster for the communities who rely on our harbors and waterways. The Great Lakes provide jobs for more than…

Mr. President, I also wish to speak about the importance of passing a farm bill today and thank the Senator from Texas for her support as we passed a strong bipartisan farm bill in the Senate back in June when sent it over it the House of…

Mr. President, I rise also to congratulate and thank a terrific Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and to wish her much success in her further efforts. I know she will provide great leadership in whatever she is doing. It has been wonderful to…

Thanks to the gentleman from Texas. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today to urge my colleagues to support my legislation, H.R. 3378, a bill to name the post office building in Munising, Michigan, after the late Mrs. Elizabeth Kinnunen…

I, too, want to commend the Republicans and Democrats, who worked very, very hard to get this legislation to the floor and, hopefully, to the President's desk as soon as possible. I particularly commend Chairman Pitts and Ranking Member…

With the passage of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education in 1999, freestanding children's hospitals began receiving funds to support their pediatric medical residency programs. As a result, the number of pediatricians in the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Pryor). Is there objection? Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The clerk will…

Thank you so much. And I rise with so many to honor a really good friend, Jay Pierson. Years ago I came to this Capitol Hill as a congressional aide. I had the pleasure of working as a legislative aide at the White House, and then I headed…

Mr. President, I rise today, as so many colleagues have done throughout the day, to pay tribute to a tremendous colleague whom we lost yesterday, a friend to all of us, someone from whom we have all learned a tremendous amount, on both…

Let me just take a moment and thank Senator Merkley, Senator Baucus, Senator Wyden, and Senator McCaskill for joining, and I know others will join us as well. We are still working very hard to complete the farm bill and have the House take…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Daniel K. Inouye

Thank you, Ranking Member Scott. This is an unusual circumstance in which the Fourth Amendment, which protects individual privacy from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, has hardly been mentioned. Another thing that is…

Members of the House, I rise in support, as well, of H.R. 6621 because it's a measure that improves the America Invents Act--the most significant reform to the Patent Act law since 1952--that was signed by President Obama last year. As…

I am pleased to recognize the ranking member of our Intellectual Property Subcommittee, Mel Watt of North Carolina. I yield him as much time as he may consume.

I would like to let everyone know that the gentleman from North Carolina, who's worked on this and has pledged to continue to work on it, has my support for the new ideas. Well, they're not new. They're old ideas that just didn't get into…

Mr. President, today I rise because middle-class families are counting on the House of Representatives to do the right thing between now and the end of the year, which is just 19 days away. The House needs to pass the middle-class tax cuts…