Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 15, which is a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform bill first brought to us by President Bush, a bill to properly address the humanitarian crisis at the border. The SPEAKER pro…

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…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

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…

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…

Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro). Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this agriculture funding bill. Budgeting is about choices, and this bill makes the wrong choices for the…

Mr. Chair, 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.

Mr. Chairman, let's be very practical about this. I think you have to put it in the context of what has happened. We passed the Dodd-Frank bill because of an incredible financial disaster in this country, and what we found out is that the…

Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlelady from New Mexico (Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham).

Mr. Chairman, let me explain that not a drop of this money, a cent of it, can be spent on a teacher's salary. This is not, ``We are going to spend it on food or a teacher's salary.'' This is only for food, and the Federal Government takes…

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…