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I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to King amendment No. 266. It has been said that we are the sum total of our experiences, Mr. Chairman, and that is certainly true. My experience consists of growing up in a…
Madam Chairman, I commend the gentleman from New York for raising this issue, and I thank him for the time. As he knows, I've had a longstanding concern about the decision to relocate the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to the…
Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment. As part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission was charged with creating a publicly available, searchable database for complaints…
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment, which reduces funding for the Department of Homeland Security by 3\1/2\ percent. Under the CR, funding for Homeland Security is already 3…
Mr. Chairman, as Members are aware, H.R. 1 provided no funding in 2011 for firefighter hiring grants, also known as SAFER grants, a reduction of $420 million. Fortunately, yesterday the House resoundingly overturned that ill-advised move…
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 the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…
Madam Chairwoman, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from North Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I came tonight to support the Pence amendment. I just came from my office where I was reading and answering my mail. My tax-paying constituents emphatically do not want their hard-earned money being used to kill…
Mr. President, I rise today to urge the Senate to quickly pass a long-term extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance, TAA, program for workers, as well as the Andean Trade Preference program. These programs make our workforce more…
The international security environment, particularly in cyberspace, continues to evolve.
Mr. Speaker, I've come to the well today to talk about what I call the insensitivity of the Republican majority as they seek to cut important domestic spending that will affect low-income and working class families in America. Every Member…
Mr. Chair, if there ever were a case of overheated campaign rhetoric overtaking responsible governing, then we are seeing that case here today. Far from continuing to fund the government through to the end of the fiscal year, this measure…
Mr. Chairman, I rise in qualified support of this amendment. The bill before us eliminates the firefighter hiring program, known as SAFER, and it reduces funding for grants to purchase fire equipment by 23 percent. If adopted, these cuts…
It is time we end this disastrous bailout and let private capital get back into the marketplace.
Are there other regulations that we can anticipate that might be of such egregious nature that are on the forefront of being promulgated?
But getting the private capital in the market to create jobs is a necessary function of a recovery, wouldn't you agree?