House Resolution 206 provides for a closed rule providing for consideration of H.R. 1363, which is a bill providing 1 week of continuing appropriations, a full year of funding for the Department of Defense, and cuts $12 billion in wasteful…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Massachusetts and I are actually, I think, getting fairly fond of each other, spending so much time in the Rules Committee as we do. However, I really have to call…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. My colleague from Massachusetts knows that every time he brags about what happened when Bill Clinton left office and we had a surplus, that he is going to get an answer to that…

You can speak on your time, Mr. McGovern. I will let you do that. My colleague on the other side of the aisle talks a lot about creating a nanny state, taking care of people from birth until death. That's not what the American people want…

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), the chair of the Rules Committee. (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I yield myself the balance of my time. As our colleague across the aisle said, ``Here we go again.'' Here we go again with the Democrats misleading the American people about what this rule is about, what this bill is about, the underlying…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Well, here we go again--another closed rule, but this rule is different from others. It also includes martial law authority. This means that the Republican leadership can bring…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Andrews). (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentleman from Massachusetts if he is ready to close. Mr. McGOVERN. I am not. I have a couple of more speakers.

I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous question. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the…

The gentleman from Washington has 8 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Kentucky has 10\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this continuing resolution. All of us know we are having this debate at a challenging and tense time. We are facing an entirely unnecessary government shutdown, a shutdown that has already been…

Madam Speaker, these cuts are economic folly. They have the potential to damage this fragile recovery and to compromise critical national investments. Republicans may be willing to risk a governmental shutdown to appease extremist…

Mr. Chair. I rise in opposition to H.R. 910. While cynically called the Energy Tax Prevention Act by its sponsors, the bill could more aptly be named the ``Dirty Air Act''. This legislation would overturn EPA's scientific finding that…

I thank my colleague from Texas for yielding time. Madam Speaker, our colleagues on our side of the aisle have made it abundantly clear that this bill does not affect the Clean Air Act. What it does is help us rein in unelected bureaucrats…

Senator Hagan. Mr. Reid and Dr. Shear, during his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 7, General Carter Ham, the Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), suggested that DOD needed to take a more regional…

So many of these small businesses cannot get further extensions on some of their lines, and this is such a burden to many of these smaller communities.

We all come from States, many of us, with large urban centers, but obviously small rural centers, too, and our community banks play a huge role in both of those areas.