Mr. Tonko, you might actually have bathrooms that work. You might actually have a place where kids would want to be. You'll have a school that has a decent paint job, air conditioning. Kids would want to be in that school. Yet we have…

Reclaiming my time, sir, in listening to your discussion about the coal-based fuels, clearly those are in the development stage; they're not yet in place. I would assume that in the development stage, the U.S. military would be purchasing…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b)…

This amendment is offered by Mr. Jones and myself. The current Overseas Contingency Operation budget is based on the assumption that we will have 68,000 troops in Afghanistan throughout the entire fiscal year 2013. However, this is not the…

Well, reclaiming my time, and thank you, sir, for the information. The point here is that in the early development of all of these fuels, whether they are coal-based or other kinds of biofuels, there is a higher cost in the early stages…

I thank the gentleman. My apologies to Mr. Jones who was about to stand up and speak on this issue. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your sincerity and your extraordinary work on the issue--a very, very difficult issue. I share with you the…

I have a question to the author of the amendment and to those who are supporting it on the other side. In listening to your discussion, you seem to be in a posture of the military--Navy in this case, and I suppose other branches--having…

After more than a decade of war, it is time to accelerate our drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and bring this war to a close. We've sent our brave servicemen and -women to Afghanistan to eliminate the international terrorists who would do…

Well, we heard many, many things during that debate last week that are just, I think, incorrect and inaccurate. One of them was that the Medicare program was cut and benefits taken away from seniors. It didn't happen. What happened was…

Well, this is the only thing that's actually been done. When the President last September proposed the American Jobs Act, the second thing that he talked about was the veterans jobs bill, and it kind of languished around here for a couple…

These are all part of the puzzle of putting people back to work. As I started this discussion, talking about the laws of America, the policies that have been enacted by this Congress and by previous Congresses and the way in which they…

Absolutely true. In addition to that, because of the exchange situation, individuals as well as businesses find themselves in a large pool. Now, I was the insurance commissioner in California for 8 years in the nineties and then again in…