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Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1646. The rapid increase of commercially available small-and medium-sized unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, most often referred to as drones…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include any extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to…
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1646) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to research how small- and medium-sized unmanned aerial systems could be used in an attack, how to prevent or mitigate the…
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, once again, I urge my colleagues to support this strong, commonsense, and bipartisan piece of legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), my colleague, friend, and fellow member of the Homeland Security Committee.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott), my good friend.
Nothing damages small businesses more than overregulation.
The No. 1 topic I hear when I travel back to my State among business people is that regulations are taking the life out of our free enterprise system.
Mr. Speaker, quite often, as others have already done today, when I have come before this body, it has been to recognize someone who has done something significant in my district or to speak about a bill, whether I was for it or against…
We have to put everything on the table and stop talking at each other and by each other and start talking to each other.
If we do put everything on the table to solve the crisis--and it is a crisis that we are facing right now in terms of our Highway Trust Fund--should that not be one of the things we consider to contribute to the solution?
Mr. President, before he leaves the floor, I thank the distinguished Senator from Wyoming, a physician himself, not just for his good remarks today but for his litany of good remarks throughout the debate on the Affordable Care Act. For 6…
Transportation improvements are pro-growth, and, if you expand prosperity, you raise revenue, not by raising rates but by raising economic activity.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to have my name removed as a cosponsor of H.R. 2588. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Georgia? There was no objection. ____________________
Mr. Speaker, one of the things I always strive for in my personal and professional life is always trying to do things better. As I tell my staff, there is no such thing as standing still. If you are not moving forward, then you are moving…
I am not seeing where more government regulation is going to solve this problem. This seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem.
the fact is that I am a free market person. And the fact is that I believe the free market works.