John Garamendi

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 103. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 566, the gentleman from California (Mr…

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.

We must clarify the existing law to guarantee that due process rights for every American are protected.

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 Idaho will be postponed. {time} 1640 Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Scalise The Acting…

May I ask the remaining time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 3 minutes remaining.

We have work to do indeed. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Mr. Altmire, I was about to respond that, while the lighting at Rensselaer is obviously good, it's California where the light-emitting diode--the LED--is actually being manufactured by a new startup company called Bridgelux, which has…

Indeed we do. We have much work to do. Mr. Altmire, you've been working long and hard here in the U.S. Congress on these issues. Carry on this discussion.

You mentioned something that we actually talked about last week. I want to hand you this chart. If you would hold that one up there and let me go back to the microphone. You mentioned the effort that we made in the 2002 change from a…

Mr. Tonko, thank you so very much, and thank you for your extraordinary experience in dealing with research and then translating that research into real things that Americans could make. Now, the great manufacturing center of America is…

We need more comprehensive--not from you, but from us--energy policy.

Is it not a fact that we are hundreds of millions of dollars behind in maintenance at the National Parks?

We have challenges because of the fact that we are having these places as icons of America.

Thank you, Mr. Tonko. I notice that we still have a minute. I see my Republican colleagues are going to take the floor in a few moments. If I recall last week when they did this, they said the answer lies in doing away with regulations…

Well, that American Dream is going to be held back by unfair trade policies that are seriously harming the American economy. Early on, I put this up. I don't know that you were here at the time. This is the American trade deficit. Much of…

We ought to be talking about exactly that issue, of the beneficiary pay issue.

If we want to build projects beyond that, then we are going to have to come up with Federal money.

This hearing and the debate going on here is, I don't know, the 27th year, the 30th year of it.

Insufficient money, insufficient direction, and too many things to do with too little money. That is our problem, and we create it, and we could change that.

We say, 'Do this,' 'Do that,' and then we don't give you enough money to get it done rapidly.

If we want to do something besides just yak back and forth across these various hearings we could focus on innovative solutions such as this one that you have just recommended.

Most everything that occurs, there are winners and there are losers. And the task at hand is to find a way in which there are winners and winners.

We need to put these things in place. Let's see, we've had the Northeast, New York. We've had the Midwest. We've had western Pennsylvania. How about Texas? Let's go to Texas. Sheila Jackson Lee, thank you for joining us tonight.

Mr. Tonko, a few moments ago, you talked about reigniting the American Dream. So how are you going to do that?

That history of partnership goes back to the very first President of this Nation. George Washington set up an industrial policy: Mr. Hamilton, Go out and develop an industrial policy because we're going to make things in America. So at the…