The loyal opposition is entitled to their opinion but they're not entitled to their facts. Let's go through some facts. The ranking member may not remember January 1. I know it was a long time ago--over a month. On January 1, with the…

I'm not aware of that, but this is not a new bill. You've had alternatives in the past. Mr. Speaker, I noticed that I was closing, and I do believe the other side is completely out of time; is that correct? The SPEAKER pro tempore. All…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I close, I think it is important that we take Mr. Hoyer's very words. First of all, he said ``Mr. President'' before ``Mr. Speaker,'' which got me to remind myself that the President is responsible for…

I inquire as to how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 9 minutes.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. The gentleman from New Jersey is right. He is right when he said that we, in fact, have to make these tough decisions. This isn't freezing the pay of our men and women in uniform, and perhaps we…

I yield myself an additional 10 seconds. I was at Walter Reed. Walter Reed has a problem, and this is a small part of the solution. Every man and woman at Walter Reed would rather have a pay freeze than, in fact, see people disappear from…

I yield myself an additional 15 seconds. He, in fact, is in a situation--a commander there, a two-star--of dealing with the possibility of furloughing for a 20 percent reduction. With the number he has been given, he cannot possibly…

I yield 2 minutes to the chairman of the Rules Committee, a person very knowledgeable of how this law that the President signed came to be passed.

I yield myself just 1 minute. I know the gentleman didn't mean to when he was talking about Maya, but he did say that her pay has been frozen for 10 years. I'm sure he meant 2 years and, if we enact this, a third year. Mr. Wolf is a…

The fact is we have a problem, and the problem is everyone wants to call a total of about $1 billion of not increases as somehow draconian. The .4 percent, they're not leaving the workforce. That's the important thing. I reserve the…

Not any more than your Member did. The fact is this is the truth, and the facts speak louder. Only 22 percent of the Federal workforce believes that their pay is linked to performance. Of course the Federal workforce doesn't like not…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, again the facts speak louder than the rhetoric. The .4 percent is less than a quarter of the exit rate in the Federal workforce of the private sector, one of the reasons people in the…