Mr. President, I wish to speak briefly on an amendment I have filed regarding a crisis we are experiencing in the H-2B visas. In North Carolina, we have a very large seafood industry, and we have a crisis that is shared by a number of…

Mr. President, I am pleased to introduce legislation to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to designate one city each year as a World War II city, beginning with Wilmington, NC, as America's first World War II City. The names of the…

Mr. President, this Memorial Day weekend is the 56th anniversary of Charlotte Motor Speedway's annual tribute that brings together more than 110,000 guests to celebrate our military patriots and reflect on their service and sacrifice. This…

To say we've got cash just means that you haven't been paying an obligation you're required to.

you either have it, or you don't.

I'm committed to the ranking member to work diligently to make sure that we come up with postal reform that does exactly that.

I need you to be transparent.

I think all of us want the Postal Service and system not only to be efficient but be what we've always--what we've grown up with it to be, is, you know, neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet.

I guess I want to encourage you to reevaluate that and perhaps slow that down and do it in buckets of 40,000 or buckets of 50,000 based on needs because in Mr. Connolly's district, you could do it with electric vehicles extremely well.

I can tell you that you will find a bipartisan support that you've never seen before as we start to try to really address this in a real way.

if you don't have the data to make that commitment, Mr. Corbett, then you don't have the data to make the commitment that 180,000 is correct either

I appreciate my colleague from Florida yielding, and I appreciate the work that she and colleagues on both sides of the aisle have done on this bill. I want to commend them for their work. Mr. Chairman, I do want to address an amendment…

I would like to associate myself with your comments on the RAC Program and trying to get a broader base of audits out of it.

There are three great battles in Congress. One is the battle between the parties, Democrat on Republican. The other great battle is the battle between the branches, executive versus legislative.

What we have got to do is muster the political will to make difficult and politically costly decisions, including a comprehensive budget plan that addresses the main drivers--the main drivers--of our deficits and debt, namely, tax…

A democratic Government cannot function when a small faction chooses to hold the American people hostage.

I remember first testifying about biennial budgeting something like 15 years ago before the House Rules Committee.

You do not balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor.