I will pass that information on to Lamont, although I disagree with your reading.

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Buck moves that the resolution be laid on the table. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion by the…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 725 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 725 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

Thank you for inviting me here today to share my thoughts about college affordability.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing. I thank the Ranking Member as well.

The NPR puts considerable focus on three elements of our nuclear deterrent that sometimes receive scant attention.

Without any of these three, we simply do not have a nuclear deterrent in this country.

I rise to speak about a horrible tragedy that occurred in Adams County, CO, on January 24, just last week. Adams County sheriff's deputy Heath Gumm was pursuing a suspect when he was shot and killed in the line of duty. Heath was 31 years…

My fear is after these big tax cuts that we just passed of $1 trillion, $500 billion at best and maybe $2 trillion, that your Department is going to be under siege to just cut like crazy.

About 27 percent. Very good, very good.

I believe we need to invest in our future through science and technology.

That's pretty incredible.

We have a lot of other countries that are making faster progress than we are.

I think the U.S. basically contributes about .7 percent of our GDP toward research and development.

I think it was finally signed--Senator Peters and I thought that this bill would go down in history as the last bill signed by President Obama before the inauguration.

What more should we do? Did we get it all right? Did we get something wrong?

Unfortunately, I've been told that there may have been a bill he signed on the last day he was in office.