Your report on SNAP retailers raise concerns about the Food and Nutrition Services ability to effectively carry out oversight and enforcement activities related to fraud.

I would like to approach our fiscal year 2015 bills with basically three things in mind: number one, ensuring the proper use of funds for robust oversight; second, ensuring the appropriate level of regulation to protect producers and the…

We want to provide the resources that you need, but at the same time we want to make sure that we are responsible to the taxpayers.

We take our security and our lockup procedures very, very seriously, and the National Ag Statistics Service has, over the years, improved their approaches towards security.

The budget proposes $75 million in new funding to create three new innovative institutes.

We are going to need to move on.

It seems to me that that might be a slap in the face to the taxpayers, because their customer services... are going down.

What I find unacceptable is that in this $11.3 billion appropriation that the IRS received this year that you can't find the money to answer more than half the phone calls...

Thank you for bringing this critical bill to the floor today. I'd also like to thank my colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Smith, for authoring this legislation. Coming on the heels of the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this…

I thank the gentleman from Kentucky, Chairman Rogers, for the time. Madam Speaker, I also wanted to personally thank the chairman for his work and the work of his staff because shepherding all 12 of these appropriations bills is no easy…

On rollcall No. 554: On ordering the previous question--providing for consideration of H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' On rollcall No. 555: On agreeing to…

I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers), the chairman of the full Appropriations Committee.

I make a point of order that the instructions that are contained in the motion violate clause 7 of rule XVI, which requires that an amendment be germane to the bill under consideration at the time. As the Chair recently ruled on October 2…

I reserve a point of order on the gentleman's motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from California is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would hope that all of my colleagues would join me tonight in supporting House Joint Resolution 77 that has been discussed here over the last hour. I understand that many of my…

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess), one of our physicians here in the House.

At this time I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly).

I reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved. The gentlewoman from Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes.

I make a point of order against the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Alabama will state his point of order.

The instructions contained in the motion violate clause 7 of rule XVI, which requires an amendment be germane to the bill that is currently under consideration. As the Chair recently ruled on October 2 and October 3 of 2013, the…

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Miller), the chair of the House Administration Committee.

I would like for the motion to be read. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will read. The Clerk continued to read.

At this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Valadao), one of the members of our Subcommittee on Agriculture Appropriations.

Thank you, Chairman Rogers, for giving me the opportunity to speak in support of H.J. Res. 59, which is the FY14 continuing resolution. Of course I think it's very obvious by the comments that the Republicans have made on our side this…

I want to rise in opposition to this amendment, as well. As has been noted here, this was created in 1965 as the ARC, and it has a real proven track record of success in creating economic development in an area of the country that faces…