Currently, the CR funds the National Endowment for the Arts at the approximate fiscal year 2008 level of $145 million. Amendment No. 196 takes the funding levels back to the fiscal year 2006 levels at $124.4 million. If accepted, this cut…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 281, line 21, insert ``(reduced by $20,594,000)'' after the dollar amount. Page 359, line 13, insert…

How much time remains, Mr. Speaker? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 1 minute remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 4 minutes remaining.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 275, noes 144, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No. 36] AYES--275…

I am pleased now to yield 2 minutes to a distinguished Member of this body, Dana Rohrabacher of California.

Ladies and gentlemen, here we go again. Last Tuesday on February 8 when this measure came up, it was defeated. It was a bipartisan vote. There was a full and fair discussion. Twenty-six Members on the other side joined with us to make sure…

I am pleased now to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from New York, Jerry Nadler, former chair of the Constitutional Subcommittee. {time} 1810

I would now like to yield such time as he may consume to a senior member of the committee, the gentleman from Virginia, Bobby Scott, a former chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime.

I yield myself an additional 15 seconds. Hassan was an American, and we have not yet used the terrorist provisions of lone wolf. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).

I thank the gentleman from Texas, Lamar Smith, the chairman, for his generosity. I now yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Does my friend from Texas have in his heart any generosity to yield a couple of minutes?

I am now pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina, Walter Jones.

In the time allotted to the Judiciary Committee, Judge Poe, if he is still here, has raised two specific grievances about overregulation diminishing job opportunity. One was on the 1099 form, which I am going to examine more carefully; and…

I thank the gentleman from Texas, Chairman Smith. I appreciate that very much. I wanted to suggest that the gentleman from Texas, Judge Poe, a distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee, raised the criticism about the new 1099 rule…

Reclaiming my time, I frequently cite them as a credible source myself; but would the chairman of the committee explain how we insure millions more people and then have fewer and fewer jobs? Did the CBO explain anything about this job loss…

I am curious about the reference and surprised that my friend, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, would come to the floor in this discussion and lift up the REINS Act as a way that we may prevent the regulations for inhibiting…

I would like to yield such time as she may consume to the gentlelady from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Last November the people of Michigan, workers that long defined manufacturing, sent a message to Washington that business as usual in this town is not working. Currently, the unemployment rate in my home State is at 11.7 percent and even…