Well, I first want to thank the chair, and I appreciate your important work on this bill. And I would like to thank the chairman of the full committee, and the ranking member, for your leadership and for your eloquent statement on this…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $145,000,000)''. Page 22, line 20, after the dollar amount…

First, I would like to thank Representative Welch and Representative Sablan for working with me on this amendment, and I thank the gentlelady from Ohio for the opportunity to chair the amendment in the House. Madam Chair, this bill would…

Let me first congratulate and thank my colleague, Congressman Fattah, for putting together this moment. I know this is going to be one of a series of tributes that we're going to have that reminds me how we all feel as we lose a dear…

To my colleague, Congressman Chaka Fattah, it was a great day, November 21. But let me just say this: I want to thank you for your leadership. It is very appropriate that we're here on the House floor, a place where Mr. Gray's power was…

I want to thank the gentleman for organizing the opportunity to say thank you. First, thank you to God for sending us Bill Gray. Thank you to God for having an individual who understands who he was, where he came from, and how he got here…

I want to thank the gentlelady from California for all of her hard work. I rise to support H.R. 1564, which I cointroduced with my colleague, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Hurt). This bill will ensure we maintain strict auditing…

At a time when millions of Americans are out of work and the cost of living continues to rise, the President could not be more out of touch with reality. For example, President Obama has continued pushing for car manufacturers to produce…

The Voting Rights Act has a strong bipartisan history. It was reauthorized by Congress in 2006 with the overwhelming support of both Democrats and Republicans. Yet the Supreme Court, in striking down a key provision of this historic civil…

First, let me thank Congressman Green for yielding to me the opportunity to speak out of order and to remind this body that, in a recent conversation I had with John Lewis, our hero and colleague, I asked him the question: Just what drove…

Thank you to the gentleman from the great State of Georgia. It's an honor to lend my voice to that of several of my colleagues as we pay tribute to Representative John Dingell from the great State of Michigan. I am only in my third term in…

Madam President, I would tell my friend from Michigan, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, that I am aware that the Department of Defense has some concerns with respect to section 1103 and also that it has some suggestions for…

Mr. President, I wish to thank my colleague from Rhode Island. As usual, he is graceful and thoughtful as well as being an outstanding legislator with a great deal of passion. I know he wants to speak on the issue he is ready to speak…

Madam President, we are now approaching the final hour of this debate on how to fix our broken immigration system--the debate we have been having for 3 weeks here on the Senate floor, for 7 months among the Gang of 8, and for decades in…

It is very hard to explain. It is sort of twisted logic a little bit, it is sort of pretzel-like logic. It is also pretzel-like logic to delay votes for so many weeks and then say all at once we need hundreds and hundreds of amendments…

Mr. President, thank you. I thank the Senator from Ohio for his good work on his piece of legislation. I will talk about that in a minute. I want to just talk in general about where we are. Obviously, this has been a long hard road, and we…

I would be happy to yield to my friend from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. My understanding is that there were 17 amendments that were just proposed by the majority leader, and it was opposed by the Senator from Iowa because we were not allowing…

I thank my colleague. Reclaiming my time, I would say, when we get a nerd from Ohio and a farmer from Big Sandy, MT, together, of course we are going to get a very good amendment. The bottom line, though, is simple. That amendment is in…