Arizona is in the 21st year of a long-term drought. However, Arizona has been able to sustain itself through this drought through implementation of successful conservation programs and robust collaboration between tribal, community…

I think it's no secret to anybody who's watched my performance on this Committee that I've been a longtime critic of the IRIS Program.

I've reintroduced this bill the current Congress, but I doubt for some reason that it'll be reported out of this Committee again anytime soon.

To keep them from falling into indigence, I guess, would be the word.

your suggestion of off-the-record discussions, question-and-answer periods where people can reach out to each other is precisely what is needed to move a bipartisan Social Security reform bill forward.

the household Social Security income declines sharply at widowhood from between 50 percent for a couple that had equal earnings, to about a third for couples where there was just one earner.

People said, people should pay in and would get the money back with some reasonable rate of interest.

And failure is not a loss for a political party so much as a loss for the American people, who have seen Social Security's unfunded liabilities grow by the trillions while Congress has failed to act.

Members have an obligation to know the program and to know the data on Americans' retirement savings and retirement incomes.

The longer we wait, the harder it is going to be.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins) for yielding me time, and I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) for his comments. We are here today because a Member of this body issued a series of anti-Semitic statements, and I…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis) for yielding me time. Let me just tell you that this really is a monstrosity of a bill, the ``Democratic Politician Protection Act.'' You see, H.R. 1 was referred to 10 committees, but…