I ask for your ``aye'' vote. I ask for American jobs. Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address their remarks to the Chair and not to others in the second person. {time} 1220 Mr…

I have a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California will state his inquiry.

This morning in California, in Marysville, a young soldier will be laid to rest, one of many. The most important issue facing this Nation--the Afghanistan war--continues on. We have 10 minutes to debate our view of how that should end…

I was there for that, and I was struck by the very same statistic. As you look at what happened then, $10 here, a doubling in price. Consider for a moment what it would mean to somebody that had purchased back here in March a million…

--60 years was a net exporter of oil, a net exporter. We had achieved energy independence. We were exporting more than we were importing for the last quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year. I don't know if that's going to…

To the ranking member and the chair of the committee, thank you for a long slog of hard work and for the production of a bill that has much good in it. Certainly, we have to provide for our military. We need a strong, agile, smart, and…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. {time} 1920 Mr. McKEON. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the time that is remaining. The CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Washington has 4\1/2\ minutes…

I have a couple more things that I'll pick up along the way. Let me just share one of them, since we're on the gasoline issue. You and I go back to our district every weekend. A month ago, 2 months ago, the rage was the price of gasoline…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Speier, and thank you for bringing this very, very important issue to the attention of the American public this evening as we spend this hour talking about gas prices in the United States. I was really…

Well, you have another chart there that showed the oil that is pumped and the price of gasoline. Congresswoman Speier, you used this before. And you asked me: If we take away the subsidies, will it increase the cost of gasoline? The answer…

The speculation issue, this morning we had a fellow from the Connecticut Petroleum Retailers Association come in and talk to us about speculation. You and I didn't have enough time to put this together, we talked about this beforehand…

Well, I took a look at that before we began this hour, and I go, Oh, my, do I have to wait until 2025 to buy that vehicle? No, not really. There are pure electric vehicles that are available today that get not 54 miles per gallon but like…