Might I inquire as to the amount of time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 9\1/4\ minutes remaining.

The President has stated repeatedly that he wants to rebuild the American manufacturing sector.

Do you support the construction, the building of tankers in American ports, or American shipyards, to export this strategic asset, liquified natural gas, with American-flagged ships, with American sailors?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to pick up where you were taking this conversation with regard to major threats: the nuclear threat, the dirty bomb threat.

we have spent $1 trillion in Afghanistan, $1 trillion in Iraq.

the Republican caucus is rejecting that $24 billion additional dollars for the military.

Thank you very much for this opportunity to delve into what is a major piece of our work here in Washington, and that is the budget and the appropriation process. Today is one of those very, very important days in the process of…

Thank you, Mr. Tonko, for being such a leader on these issues. As I was about to turn around to the Speaker and sign off, I realized I had left off a major piece of the infrastructure. We have a major drought in California, and we know…

Thank you very much, Mr. Tonko, and thank you for your years of service in the area of energy and for moving this entire program forward. I think there is another very, very important piece of this, and that is that the climate is…

the sequestration...came about as a direct result of the threat to default on the American debt.

I understand and appreciate that point.

There is nobody else in this room that has the experience that the two of you have in working with these.