Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on April 9, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Addressing…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding and for pulling this Special Order together here and bringing out this case as something that all the American people aren't going to realize what is taking place here, if we…

Well, I think they will view us as a foolish country that doesn't understand our priorities and doesn't understand where the money is coming from or where it goes. I would say this call out: Mr. Netanyahu, why don't you just ask us to take…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and, also, Mr. Young for his authorship of this bill. It changed dramatically what I had to say when I came down here when I heard that the Republican endeavor to reestablish the 40-hour…

No, I won't yield. I heard what the gentleman had to say. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland will suspend. The gentleman from Iowa will suspend. Point of Order

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 6 o'clock and 36 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, April 3, 2014, at 10 a.m. for morning-hour…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate very much the honor and privilege to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and to follow my good friend, the gentleman from Texas, Judge Gohmert, in this presentation here…

I appreciate your service in coming here to testify this morning.

I think we have made a lot of progress in that situation.

There were three provisions I would have liked to have seen that would have treated the livestock producers a lot better.

I am a strong believer in the Renewable Fuel Standard. And I know it is controversial even in this Committee, but I believe it is important to have for jobs, for stabilizing farm income, for reducing our reliance on foreign oil, and for…

Will that $2.7 billion be enough to alleviate the funding----

The goal is not to go to college; the goal is to complete at the backend.

Our days are very, very short. I do think we need to look at longer school years also.

We want to challenge people to step up and do more here.

I think finally the American people, and, certainly, the business community has been behind this forever.

I have been deeply committed to expanding access to high-quality early learning programs for most of my career.

I tend to think that we do need longer school days. I don't know about a longer week.