John Garamendi

I would really like to see a further discussion--not necessarily a hearing, but a further discussion with the top command at the Coast Guard about how it can be flexible enough in its thinking about the ways in which you can accomplish…

I want to pick up where Mr. Hunter had taken this--Chairman Hunter had taken this question, which is new technologies that are available--readily available today.

I was going to ask a similar question. For the record, I will submit the question to you.

This has been put off to be worked on in the future.

The Democratic Caucus just concluded a meeting with the President, and it's not good to walk out on the President.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. The Chair understands that amendment No. 34 will not be…

How many times have I heard from this side that the President is wrong? The President is wrong in this case.

I request to know how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Paulsen). The gentleman from California has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 134, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,615,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

If you don't trust the Afghan Government, you should never give them $2.6 billion. This is on top of the $5 billion that they were to receive. This money was specifically added to the budget for the Afghan military to buy something--parts…

I have great respect for my colleagues on the subcommittee. However, the argument that has been made is incomplete. We're talking about whether we're going to spend an additional sum of money this next year on a program that, A, has large…

And a very sound investment was made in you and your brother, who I believe is the mayor of San Antonio.

I thought for a moment you were going to go into more detail about your own personal emotions as you stop in every one of these towns on your way to see your fiancee, but we'll let that go for another time.

We will continue to work on this, and we will talk about it again in the future. California is the most populous State. I didn't say ``popular,'' although I would certainly say that. Texas being the second biggest in geography. We now have…

Mr. Delaney, thank you very, very much. Obviously, Maryland is very well represented with some innovative thinking from their Representatives. Infrastructure banks are not new. This is a new way of financing it, and a very exciting one…

I think you did. I was trying to grasp the totality of it. It is a process in which now this is a piece of legislation; it's here in the House. I would hope that our colleagues on the Republican side that control the passage of…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Luetkemeyer

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The amounts otherwise…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 30, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 26, line 18, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $329,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

Thank you. I might just point out that, with sequestration this year, we took $250 million out of the Corps of Engineers' budget, so we're building on a lower base. This is going to be tragedy and tragic--but, Madam Chair, these are our…

We have to complete the process of planning, we have to complete this particular effort.

This plan really is the culmination of some 30 years of effort to try to figure out how to...position one of the greatest amenities in this world, Yosemite National Park, for the 21st century and all the challenges that it has.

This is the Make It in America agenda. As you say, you could easily add to this immigration reform as one of the things we need to do. These men and women--some 12 million who are here without documents--are unable to really rise up into…

We certainly have seen this many, many times over here on the floor. Mark, maybe you want to comment on this.