This is a commonsense amendment that will only enhance the benefits achieved by the underlying bill and by ensuring we privatize deficit reduction and effectively utilize the savings the bill creates. I yield back the balance of my time…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 18, line 14, after ``funds'' insert ``and deficit reduction''. Page 18, line 18, before the…

Mr. Chair, I offer this amendment to ensure that any excess funds as a result of this bipartisan bill are used to reduce the annual Federal budget deficit. I am pleased that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have proposed a…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1765 to provide the Secretary of Transportation with the flexibility to transfer funds to prevent further disruptions resulting from Federal Aviation Administration furloughs. If enacted, this bill…

With sequestration delaying flights and harming our economy, our Nation needs a little gas. Say what you will, but this is just the best thing that we can do here. So I'd like to float a simple idea: stop wasting our time. Let's get to the…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, like a kid at a carnival, I rise in full support of H.R. 527, the Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act of 2013. Mr. Chairman, I'm relieved, and I'm sure that the American people are…

Sadly, Republicans are just blowing in the wind and can't seem to tether themselves down to take on such an important task. They float off in different directions unable to appoint conferees to negotiate with the Senate. Yesterday, despite…

Excuse me. Before you get to the NARM system, the part of ionophores, which are different from antibiotics and which, from my understanding, has not proven to contribute to any resistance in humans.

Thank you for that answer.

On behalf of the peanut producers in the Southeast and Southwest that produce the majority of peanuts, and of course, in Southwest Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, we all thank you.

I am concerned about nations like Brazil, which successfully brought the claim against the United States through the WTO on cotton.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Alabama named me, but Georgia claimed me. I remember vividly the Sunday of the bombing as a young boy in Mobile, Alabama. I'm reminded of the words of James Weldon Johnson: Stony the road we trod…

Okay. And make sure that when you do get back, that it is based in sound science.

It makes a sound accommodation between two essential values--preserving the independence of the Federal judiciary and making judges, as public servants, accountable under the laws for their conduct in office.

I am tired of coming into the Rayburn Office Building and seeing SUVs sitting out front with their engines running.

Madam President, I appreciate the leadership of the distinguished former Governor. Knowing him as well as I do, he is a States rights advocate and this is a States rights issue and we are here to protect the rights of our States.

Madam President, before he leaves the floor, I would like to thank the distinguished majority whip for his leadership. I also want to thank Senator Enzi, Senator Alexander, and the Presiding Officer for their leadership on what is an…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate for up to 5 minutes on the marketplace fairness legislation. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.