The proposed SNAP cuts in this bill will be devastating to our most vulnerable populations. Many of the poorest Americans depend on SNAP as their only means of assistance to feed their families. We should not turn our backs on low-income…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be postponed. Amendment No. 17 Offered by Ms. Titus The Acting CHAIR. It is now in…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 3102, relating to extension of funding for the market access program. The Acting CHAIR…

The rationale behind this amendment is simple: hardworking taxpayers should not have to subsidize the world's most successful companies and trade groups for their business and advertising overseas, yet that's exactly what the Market Access…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle A of title IV, insert the following: SEC. 4033. EXPUNGEMENT OF UNSUED SUPPLEMENTAL…

Mr. President, I rise to speak about amendment No. 1311, the Hire Americans First amendment, which I hope to call up later. Nearly 8 percent of Americans are unemployed or underemployed and our immigration policy obviously must be a jobs…

That is certainly right. It seems there are new emerging and potentially dangerous health threats. We obviously know of the disease--the acquired infection you just mentioned. We know now of the H7N9 bird flu and MERS. How does the Senator…

As we consider H.R. 520, the Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act, I would like to recognize the important contributions of Colonel Charles Young. As a Member of the House Armed Services Committee and Co-Chair of the House…

I thank the Senator from Georgia. I think that is exactly the point. While perhaps those who know CDC--obviously in the State of Georgia people know it more intimately than in my State. They more likely think of CDC doing something in…

I thank Senator Isakson. I am so appreciative of the work the Senator has done with the Centers for Disease Control in his home State of Georgia. There is no Federal agency that is quite like the CDC in this country or across the world…

I wish to close with a personal story about polio. My brother, born in 1947--there are three of us, three boys. My brother is the oldest, my brother Bob. When he was in about the first, second, or maybe the third grade, my father, who was…

I stand before you today to tell you about a rare disorder known as CDKL5. Today, June 17, is CDKL5 Awareness Day. This genetic disorder was discovered by genetic markers in 2004. Those impacted usually suffer from seizures and rarely, if…

If the Senator would yield for a moment, MERS was identified recently, and CDC scientists developed and shipped a diagnostic kit to be used in the field. To talk about one--when I talk to people about public health and certainly the…

I thank my colleague, Congressman Jeffries. I rise this evening to discuss a very important topic to me, a topic that is important to me, to my district and to this Nation: why entrepreneurship matters to Black America. This week, we…

The Guantanamo Bay detention facility was established to hold unlawful enemy combatants captured during the war on terror. Any proposal to close the Guantanamo detention facility must first clearly address the transfer of remaining…

I had the good fortune of getting to know Ben Gettler during years of pickup basketball games with him. Ben's philosophy about basketball wasn't too different from his philosophy about life: age is no reason to slow down. Ben was still…

No, I will not yield to the gentleman. Here is the most important thing: The gentleman says that these troops need to be reduced. We've reduced troops. Mind you, the gentleman served in the early seventies. Here is 1989. We had 213,000…

Let's be clear. It has been misstated that if this amendment doesn't pass that we would leave nuclear weapons at the Cold War level. Our nuclear weapons have already been reduced by 90 percent since the peak of the Cold War and 75 percent…