I thank you for the opportunity to present this amendment. This amendment will not kill the bill nor send it back to committee, but it is an amendment that is important to every Representative in this House if you care about the 10th…

May I inquire as to the time remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 2 minutes remaining.

I am. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Garamendi moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1837 to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to report the same back to…

You will hear this from the other side as they close, Oh, but you are going to be able to get some $300 million. Yes, that money will flow more quickly into the treasury to be sure because it allows the water districts, as a result of the…

The chairman of the committee, if I did say the chairman of the committee, I believe I said the chairman of the subcommittee. In which case if I did, Mr. Hastings, you are quite correct; you were not there. The chairman of the subcommittee…

I look forward to this hour with my colleagues to talk about jobs. How do we create jobs in America? We are now well over 14 months of the Republican control of this House, and not one significant bill has passed this House that would…

Excuse me. You're getting too close to my roof. Move on. Don't focus on roofs, because I didn't fix it, and, yes, I got to repair the inside as well as the roof.

Thank you very, very much for bringing that issue up. It's one that is extremely important in my district because I do have the two major northern California wind farms in my district, one in the Solano County area and the other one in the…

I would like to have handed this to you as you were talking about the expansion that occurs when you invest in infrastructure. I ran over to get this, but I didn't want to interrupt your discussion. For every dollar invested in…

We have work to do, and Americans want to go to work and they want things made in America. I was interested in what you were saying about the use of our Tax Code. The Big Five oil companies in America--Exxon, Chevron, BP, and the other…

We ought not dance around one of the issues involved in this infrastructure. That's, where is the money coming from? How are you going to pay for this stuff? Our colleague Rosa DeLauro for more than 15 years has made a proposal here in…

Thank you so very much for circling back to the transportation issue. That issue is still before this House. There has been no hearing, and the bill that was put forth by the Republicans simply has gone nowhere. In fact, it hit the brick…