I would hope it would never get to this point, but TSA Administrator Pistole was asked, I believe last week, if work stoppages or slowdowns occurred, would he be willing to fire TSA screeners en masse, and he answered yes.

So I hope and I admonish you very strongly to put a delay on the implementation of this rule without protections.

It is going to be the American consumers at the end of the line.

But is it fair to say that your clients can use cash?

I have heard from--as every district--we have a lot of merchants in my district and my community and I understand the problem that they convey to me that they face with the interchange fees.

So you took the risk. You innovated the product. And now, Mr. Kantor's clients enjoy that product. Is that right?

But I think it is clear from your testimony and from the comments of Mr. Bernanke that we are not so certain that they are going to be excluded or this law is not going to impact them.

I believe that the free market should be allowed to work.

Mr. Chairman, I do rise to be heard on the point of order. Mr. Chairman, here are the rules of the House for the 112th Congress. Accompanying it, we also have something called H. Res. 92. Oftentimes when we get to the floor, we talk in…

The underlying House rules specifically permit an amendment such as the one I've offered and earlier debated in front of this body because it allows us to cut spending in one area in order to restore services or programs of greater…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A, insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available by this…

I thank the gentleman. I yield back the balance of my time. Point of Order The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey will state his point of order.

I think it is important to plug the holes lest there be, you know, a huge tragedy.

Under the rules of this House, my amendment would be fine. In the House Resolution 92, to which the gentleman referred, which governs simply the debate that we're engaged in this evening, it waives the rule of the House. It waives the rule…

I thank the chairman for yielding time to me to address the issue today with regard to unspent, unobligated stimulus money. Two years ago, this Congress voted to spend nearly a trillion dollars of stimulus money. They said that we could…

Do we need to have a mid-air collision before it becomes an urgency on the part of the FAA?

I just heard that NextGen is going to require a lot of money, which we don't have at the present time.

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of my amendment and in opposition to H.R. 1, the Republican bill to slash services to the American people--a measure that I believe threatens jobs and our fragile economic recovery. I agree with my…