I really think businesses want to protect their cyber assets and realize that government really has a real role to play here.

Madam President, all of us have come down here to support a very legitimate request to have a legitimate question answered. I think the Senator deserves those answers. If not an answer from the White House, he at least deserves a vote. I…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. My good friends across the aisle talk about loopholes and tax reform. They might forget that over the last 2 years, this House and this party have put forward legislation that does away…

Mr. Speaker, can I inquire how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 25 minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from Florida hit it exactly on the head. This is about real people. This is about the effects that sequestration will have on real people, the kind of people who, when they hear ``sequestration,'' they think…

Thank you, Mr. Cartwright, for continuing your fight for families in Pennsylvania and across the country. When I listen to Mr. Cartwright and I listen to Mr. Takano and I listen to speakers throughout the day from the Democratic side of…

I'd like to thank the gentleman from California for those remarks. You've heard a little bit from the west coast. You heard a little bit from the heartland. Now we can hear a little bit from the east coast, the State of Pennsylvania, and…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to repeat and enhance the calls made by our colleagues today to put a stop to these disastrous spending cuts known as sequestration. It's been interesting. For the…

Madam Speaker, as a lifelong Wisconsinite and a proud resident of Madison for the last 30 years, I am deeply humbled and honored to represent Wisconsin's Second District in the House of Representatives. The Second District is home to a…

Yeah, we do.

There is fat in the budget, and I think every American looks at how we spend our money and they say, I can cut 2 percent out of my family budget, small businesses can say, I can cut 2 percent out of my budget.

I look at this and I see the lights going off, the sirens are blaring, and I am almost setting a proverbial can on my counter and you are kicking it saying, listen, don't worry about $85 billion in cuts; do it a different day.

I think you are giving cover to a set of policies that aren't responsible, and we are all going to pay the price for the fiscal irresponsibility.

I want to thank our witnesses for highlighting the many promising Federal, State, and private delivery reforms that are underway.

I never want to forget the impact that some of these reforms have, not only on the immediate Medicare beneficiary.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding. I was the principal author of the Voting Rights Act extension in 2006, which did pass this House 390-33, and unanimously was passed by the Senate. {time} 1620 The Shelby County…

the complaint that we heard from the Ranking Member, I think, rings very hollow.

I don't think the government can come up with something that is objective.