Mr. President, it is with a heavy heart that I rise today to honor the life and heroic service of SGT Jason T. Smith. Sergeant Smith, assigned to the 1st Explosive Ordnance Company, based in Iwakuni, Japan, died on November 19, 2010, from…

Madam President, I will wrap up in the next couple of minutes. He is not alone in this considered view. Listen to the bipartisan wisdom calling on the Senate to ratify this treaty: former Secretaries of State George Shultz, James Baker…

Madam President, I rise to support timely ratification of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, often called New START. New START accomplishes critical goals for our national security. It reduces Russia's deployed nuclear warhead…

Mr. Speaker, today we have the opportunity to provide tax cuts for 98 percent of all Americans--on earnings up to $250,000. But as you just heard and as you are going to hear throughout the day, the Republicans don't want to have that tax…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the DREAM Act. The lives of hundreds of thousands of de facto Americans hang in the balance. The DREAM Act would provide a route for young people who were brought here, who know no other country, to…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1741 provides a closed rule for consideration of H.J. Res. 101, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes. The rule provides 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled by…

Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier). All time yielded during consideration of the rule is for debate only. I yield myself such time as I consume…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 1741 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 1741 Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it…

Mr. Speaker, it is standard and bipartisan practice to consider continuing resolutions under a closed rule. I would say this has been the practice on both sides of the aisle. Republicans have issued closed rules for every continuing…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts and would like to join him in expressing my great honor in having served with the gentleman from Florida. It is my hope that he and I have another opportunity to manage a rule together. It is my…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor my departing colleague, Representative Ike Skelton. I did not get to work closely with Representative Skelton, but I want to say it's the small things that make a difference. There was one day my…

Overall, this is a very strong bill that makes the necessary and responsible investments and that represents a critical step in answering President Obama and First Lady Obama's call to end childhood hunger. For the sake of the health and…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I agree with my colleague from California that to the extent we can grow American markets we need to work together in a bipartisan way to do that. I joined my colleague on letters to…

I also ask unanimous consent that all Members be given 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on H.R. 1741. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Colorado? There was no…

I think this recent civilian trial of the person formerly who was in Guantanamo Bay, who was tried in New York City, I believe, who was found not guilty of about 250 counts of murder-- although that's about how many people were killed in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me point out that, to its credit, The Wall Street Journal did not accept the offer to disseminate these WikiLeaks latest round of documents from the diplomatic arena, and I think that that is to…

I thank the gentleman, Representative Trent Franks from Arizona, and I thank Steve King for making some good points about Iran and the mistakes made by this administration in canceling the third site. And I was with the group that went and…

I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding. I would like to say that this administration has not done enough with North Korea. Some good efforts have been made, but much more needs to be done and much more needs to be done with Iran…