I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Chairwoman, I rise to thank my colleagues on the Appropriations Committee. I am a ranking member also. I know what type of work it takes to put together a $39.7 billion expenditure to protect all…

Thank you very much, my dear colleague from California and our distinguished Member of Congress, Barbara Lee. And I can't think of any other Member who has made more trips and taken more people and influenced this change of policy in the…

I want to thank Mr. Rogers, the chair of the committee, for bringing a bill to the floor. I wish it was the full bill and not most of the bill. But I also want the world to note that, even though there are some poison pills in this issue…

Thank you very much for yielding and being chair of the California Democratic delegation, the largest single delegation in the United States Congress, with its champions of note, George Miller and Henry Waxman. This is a historical room…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. This is always a difficult issue. It is a California issue, and I want to point out that the California delegation is not evenly split on this. It is unevenly split. The reason is the gentleman just…

Thank you, Madam Ranking Chair, for yielding. I rise, Madam Speaker, on this bill with great concern. I am bringing a lot of passion to this debate because I lived in the barrios like the ones the children are coming from when I was a…

I stand today in the well to appeal to my Republican colleagues about this debate, which isn't about the underlying bill, it is about the rule. You ought to all be worried. We all ought to be worried. This rule is a sham to the institution…

Thank you very much for yielding. Thank you for your leadership on this bill. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill for many reasons. The first reason is that America needs to market itself. You think that, oh, everybody loves…

As co-chair of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus, I am pleased to see the House of Representatives take up the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014 today. I want to thank my caucus co-chair, Rep. Gus…

Thank you for yielding. Madam Chair, this bill has in its title ``America That Works.'' It is not going to work with this provision in it, and that is why the bill fails. I think year after year of failing and failing is a policy of upward…

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from California (Mr. Farr) has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Holt) has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Thank you for asking. The other provision is not in this school nutrition program, but in the WIC--the Women, Infants, and Children--program where we give vouchers to mothers of newborns or pregnant women in expectation that they are…