Mike Thompson

I thank the gentleman for yielding. And I thank my friend from Texas for the compliment. You're always welcome in my home. I would suggest if we did more of that, we might get a little bit more cooperation on things that are important to…

I thank my friend for yielding. One of the previous speakers asked a rhetorical question: How stupid is all this. I would like to kind of quantify that because you can actually put numbers on it. In my home State of California, I'll tell…

I thank my friend for yielding and also for bringing this issue to the attention of the American people, and, by the way, for the great work that you do as our ranking member on the Natural Resources Committee. I think Mr. DeFazio made a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this misnamed piece of legislation. It actually should be called The 40th Time We've Wasted the Taxpayers' Time and Money Act. This is a bill that's not new to us…

I would rather have the delay than rush this thing through and get something that does not work.

This is all good stuff.

Healthcare reform was in response to a national crisis.

It is important that we insure folks.

6 months ago, our Nation witnessed a horrible massacre of innocence in Newtown, Connecticut. In the 6 months since, there are two important facts that we should note: first, nearly 5,000 more Americans have been killed by people using…

I want to be very, very careful that we do the scoring correctly, because my concern is if this copay discourages folks from doing what they should be doing in regard to health care, it could end up costing us a lot more.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the fact we are having this hearing and want very much to be able to get to the bottom of this.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank both the ranking member and the chairman for their good work on this measure and for including all of us in trying to build a better product. Clearly, the threat of a devastating cyber attack…

So, taken together, these provisions will improve the transparency and the accountability of this bill. However, notwithstanding these important changes, the bill is not perfect. Given the significance of this threat and the commitment of…

I think if you look at the 80 apps, for example, that have already been submitted to FDA, they represent fairly high-risk technologies that should be reviewed by FDA.

Thank you, Congresswoman Esty, and thank you for your work on the task force and for your work every day to make sure that we all come together to make our communities safer places to live, to work, to recreate, and to raise our families…

I thank the gentlelady for her dedication, for her hard work on this, and for her taking time to be here tonight to talk about this. You raised the issue and praised those on the other side of the aisle, many of whom have experience--one…

I would now like to yield to my friend and colleague from New York (Mrs. Maloney).

I thank the gentleman. I appreciate the fact that you provide clarity on the one issue, and that is that the critics of anything we try and do to prevent gun violence repeatedly state, Just enforce the laws that are on the books. Here…

I thank Mr. Levin. I rise in opposition to this bill today. The underlying premise of this bill has been roundly and routinely denounced by fact checkers. This bill is at best a solution looking for a problem. In 1997, I carried…

I thank the gentleman for being here tonight and for his leadership. Madam Speaker, I'll end where I started. As I said, we have to come together to work on these issues. These are the issues that the American people want us to find…

This is why Representatives Jim Gerlach and Mike Thompson wrote the Conservation Easement Incentive Act.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in opposition to this political poppycock. I've got a real personal interest in this issue in this legislation. When I was in the State senate, I wrote California's welfare reform legislation…

I thank the chairman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I'm one of those Democrats that the ranking member talked about that would prefer a 3-year extension of this measure, but I'm going to vote for H.R. 5949, the FISA Amendments Act…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in opposition to this bill. It's interesting. Today's the 1-year anniversary of the enactment of the Budget Control Act, and that came about and left us with this impending sequestration. So let's…

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Florida and the gentleman from Indiana, and look forward to working with both of them and others in the House to ensure that we can bring this to resolution. I yield back the…