Mark Takano

Improving air quality and reducing greenhouse emissions is a matter that is vitally important to my constituents in Riverside County.

Isn't it true in Silicon Valley--let's kind of talk about that for a moment--there has been a resurgence of investment, that we are seeing our California budget sort of recovering with additional revenues because your area of the State is…

I thank the gentleman. I now yield to my friend and colleague, Representative Mike Honda, from the 17th District. I know you, Mr. Honda, have been a former school principal. You have been in local government as a county supervisor, I…

I thank the gentlelady for participating. We both love our State. It is such an honor to serve with you in this body. I now yield to the distinguished gentleman who represents California's 29th District. He sits on the Committee on Natural…

I thank my friend and colleague, the gentlelady from California's 35th Congressional District, Gloria Negrete McLeod. Now I yield to a true champion of small business. She sits on the Small Business Committee, as well as the Judiciary…

Thank you so much for coming down to speak about how this shutdown, this GOP-imposed shutdown, manufactured shutdown, and how this threat to not raise the debt limit is jeopardizing our entire Nation. But we in California are a tremendous…

Thank you, Mr. Huffman. If you want to--care to stay just a few minutes to have a little back-and-forth.

Thank you, Mr. Lowenthal. I appreciate it. I know you have to run on to a committee, and good luck. Next, I now yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman), my friend and colleague from the Second District, a great leader in the…

I cherish this Committee. I cherish being on it because it is one of--one corner of the Congress that is still functional.

I think he stated very clearly my sentiments about what needs to be done, a clean CR.

The last 48 hours, we've voted on a lot of things since then. As I pointed out in my remarks, every headline that looks bad for them, they come up with a bill, and they try to fund that headline away. Again, they're embarrassing votes for…

We had plenty of time to try and hash all of this out, but let's remember the original pretext for this shutdown. What I kept hearing from our Republican colleagues was they wanted to delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act…

Was that literally the 11th hour, 59th minute before they--that's right. I do remember this now because I was here that time of night. I do remember that because we were wondering what the Republican Caucus was going to do next, and the…

Do you expect to fill all the slots before the VRAP expiration date on October 1?

Can you tell me, which veterans are eligible? All veterans?

I want to take a moment to highlight the efforts of my colleague Representative Brownley, the Ranking Member of the Health Subcommittee, and thank her for the enormous amount of work she put into a package of legislation reauthorizing…

We are very interested in the implementation and the progress that has been made by VRAP and where we are with regards to outreach and recruitment.

On behalf of the 2,100 community- and faith-based organizations NCHV represents, we thank you for your commitment to serving our nation's most vulnerable heroes.

Thank you, Mr. Miller. I look forward to working with you. Mr. Chairman, I have submitted an amendment with Representative Gibson to H.R. 5, which would return annual testing to pre-No Child Left Behind levels. However, H.R. 5 is just so…

I wish to congratulate my Republican colleagues. They really caught us off guard on this one. They have gone above and beyond the high jinks that they pulled to get this farm bill to the floor. And while they were at it, they willfully…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $40,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

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. Takano

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $20,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

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. Perry

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 22, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $245,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after…