Jerry Lewis: “Mr. Obey and I have both understood for years that if you wander through the Rayburn Building and do not get lost, you…”

I very much appreciate our chairman yielding. I, too, want to express our deepest gratitude to Dale Oak and his family for the years and years of work and sacrifice they have put in on our behalf. As the chairman indicated, Dale has worked…

Mr. Speaker, one of the delights of this process, preparing for this bill, has been to go back through the process of the past and look at some of the protestations and expressions of concern by my colleague, now the chairman of the full…

I very much appreciate your taking the time to make those expressions. They've done a fabulous job on this bill, and it's an illustration of what can happen when we work so well together.

The American people know that, once again, Congress is putting partisan political considerations ahead of the needs of the American people. In my view, the quickest way to end this political nonsense is to vote `no' on this bill so that we…