I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to thank the chair and ranking member for their support of this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in support of the bill to designate the U.S. Postal Service building located at 281…

I rise to speak in favor of the Holt-Bishop amendment to support funding for the Department of Energy Office of Science. This is a vital investment in the Nation's future. We have tough decisions to make about where to make cuts. And…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Title 17…

My amendment as offered by my colleagues, Representative Bass and Representative Fudge, would simply restore ARPA-E funding to the fiscal year 2011 level of $179.6 million. ARPA-E was created in 2009 to bring the kind of innovative…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 28, line 23, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $79,640,000)''. Page 32, line 4, after the dollar amount…

My amendment is very simple. Of the $733 million appropriated in this bill for nuclear energy research at the Department of Energy, it separates out $10 million to spend on a cooperative effort with NASA to restart the production of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 24, line 6, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Garamendi

There are moments in the lives of nations when the existing order is suddenly revealed as bereft of legitimacy and no longer viable. The wave of unrest spreading across the Arab world, touched off by the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit…

I appreciate the hard work that has gone into the bill by the gentleman from Texas. However, I remain deeply concerned that the shift to first-to-file will have lasting negative consequences for small investors, and I urge the House to…

I find myself in reluctant opposition to my colleague from Texas in support of the Sensenbrenner amendment. Section 3 shifts our patent system from the unique first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system. As I speak to inventors…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to raise my concerns about H.R. 1249 and the rule and in particular the manager's amendment. America's uniquely innovative culture is the source of our economic strength, and I have…

I thank the gentleman. The only concluding point I want to make is the funds that are held in the escrow account, if the Congress subsequently decides because of budgetary problems they have a better use for those funds, they want to be…

If I can reclaim my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

Thank you, and I will be very brief. If the funds that are sequestered--first of all, it requires another act of Congress to appropriate those sequestered funds back to the Patent Office. If it was never the intention to divert those, then…

The outrages perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar Assad against his own people have laid bare his regime's total lack of legitimacy. The shelling of Homs evokes memories of the 1982 massacre at Hama, in which his father ordered the…

I thank the chairman and appreciate the time that he spent to discuss this issue with us. I would just make a couple of points before I yield to my colleague, and that is that this will only restore an inequity at the time of ANCA. {time}…

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 256, after line 9, insert the following (and conform the table of contents accordingly): SEC. 814…

I rise as the designee of the gentlewoman from California, Representative Waters, and I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title…

I thank you for that, and I know my colleague Representative Waters thanks you for that. Let me just briefly state for the record a couple of points that my colleague would like me to make, and then I'd be happy to yield the balance of my…

The most important feature of this revolution is that it is organic.

Bin Laden is not the face of the Arab world, and instead, it is that of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself on fire to protest the endemic corruption of the Ben Ali Government.

Looking at the unique characteristics in Egypt and the accelerated time frame for Egyptian elections in September, parliamentary elections, the presidential elections to follow sometime thereafter, how is USAID keeping pace with that?

The sight of millions of people, mostly young, who are taking to the streets to demand democracy, accountability, and a better future is one that should stir the hearts of every American.

It is just excruciating to watch the Libyan people attacked by their own government, with all the powerful machinery of the Libyan military.