John Garamendi

Bill Young, obviously, felt those responsibilities deeply. He carried them out for an extraordinary length of time--almost 43 years.

Mr. Pascrell, thank you very much. Whether you're from New Jersey or wherever, I'm not about to threaten you. But I would like to welcome to this microphone our friend from the State of Massachusetts, who is probably just as tough as the…

Mr. Doyle, thank you so very much. The Republican shutdown has to end. It has to end, and how correct you were about the negotiations just this evening. They put a proposal on the floor to create some sort of a negotiating committee that…

Thank you very much, Mr. Larson. Mr. Speaker, a vote--that is what democracy is all about. We are asking for a simple thing: the opportunity to vote on extending the operations of the American government. Now I would like to turn to the…

Thank you, Mr. Tonko, the gentleman from New York. I would like now to bring to the microphone our friend from the great State of Connecticut, John Larson.

Mr. Tonko, let us split that time. Would you like to close, or would you like to continue on?

So the Republican leadership refused to establish the conference committee by refusing to name the conferees.

If I might just add to the exposition that you laid out: the two budget proposals, the Senate and the House budget proposals both passed. The Senate appointed conferees. To this moment, the House has not appointed conferees to the budget…

It's time for us to go back to our East-West Show, which we have done here many, many nights. My colleague from the State of New York, Paul Tonko, who has represented for 5 years now the area where the Industrial Revolution began, along…

Mr. Castro, thank you so very, very much. You spoke of your Senator, Senator Cruz. I suspect in 5 years, you're going to replace him, and I would like that.

Ms. Sheila Jackson Lee, thank you so very much. There is no doubt that this House has the ability at any moment to vote on the continuing resolution that the Senate has sent back here. If that were to happen, the President would…

Mr. Ryan and Mr. Pallone, thank you so very much for joining us on this discussion about the Affordable Care Act and the way in which the Republican Party here in the House is using its repeal as a lever to really shut down government…

Mr. Pallone, thank you so very much for your comments about New Jersey. Mr. Ryan, I think we have maybe 2\1/2\ minutes left if you'd like to close, and I'll take the last 30 seconds and then we'll thank the public for their attention.

Very good. We are joined here now by our distinguished senior Member from the State of New Jersey.

Thank you very much, Mr. Tonko. In previous weeks, you and I and Mr. Ryan and Mr. Castro have had the pleasure of talking on this floor about putting people to work, about jobs, about creating the infrastructure, the education, the…

Thank you very much, Ms. Wilson. Thank you for laying out the way in which the Affordable Care Act will benefit and how people can use that act, how they can access the exchanges and the benefits that are found in it. I would like now to…

Mr. Tonko, we were talking about this earlier before we came up here, and you may want to take up this issue. This is an issue of what an infrastructure investment needs to grow the economy.

We are going to do everything necessary, including legislation, to make it happen, to really build the American maritime industry.

Are we going to provide the money necessary to carry out the American policies with regard to the maritime industry?

We need clarity of American policy and, frankly, we need the money to back it up.

Why haven't you been enforcing the laws about American cargo? What is going on here?

Mr. Hunter, this is remarkable. We are actually, Democrats and Republicans, agreeing.

These regulations seem to be stuck in a back eddy. What is going on?

Mr. Garamendi. Mr. Chairman, it is not clear to me how the Coast Guard is learning and using, and certainly integrating these technologies.

So put aside the not invented here syndrome and go with already is invented.