May I ask how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

This is a commonsense amendment. I have great esteem for the chairman, but I really don't think we ought to be mushrooms. I don't think we ought to be kept in the dark. We really are in the process here of making decisions today to spend a…

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 No. 13 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer The Acting CHAIR…

Every year Congress receives a very important and very helpful report regarding our nuclear weapons enterprise. It is sometimes referred to as the 1043 Report because it is mandated by section 1043 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012. It…

We have a serious case of legislative amnesia here. Apparently, the sponsors of this bill and those who are speaking in support of it have totally forgotten what we did last year. The WIIN Act last year addressed every single problem that…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title XVI, add the following new section: SEC. 1673. IMPROVEMENT TO ANNUAL REPORT ON…

May I ask how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I look forward to this hour, although I will probably take something less than that. I want to bring to the attention of the House and, more beyond that, the citizens of the United States what is happening here with all this talk about the…

As I have committed to you and I commit here today to your colleagues, we will not seek waivers from those provisions unless we get to the most extraordinary circumstance that we have plumbed the depths throughout our economy to create…

We will never build a high-speed train in America unless the High-Speed Rail Authority in California simply says, 'It will be American-made.'

The Buy America provisions are extraordinarily important for the continuation of support for this project.

the high-speed rail program is under construction, it is having dramatic effects immediately in California in an area that has suffered historic underinvestment in our State.