STEVE KNIGHT

We want to help people and we want to give them a chance and if they take that chance, then great.

I would like to begin by thanking Chairman Roskam for his work on this amendment. I do speak in favor of amendment No. 14 which strengthens Federal laws against animal fighting and has garnered bipartisan support many times over the past…

This is a fiscally responsible bill, and was drafted to ensure taxpayer resources are wisely and efficiently used to meet public objectives for safety and economic growth and a better way to move around the country. I urge my colleagues to…

Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we do not want you to go out of business.

I am a huge proponent of our community colleges and of trade schools and tech schools as kind of a conduit to do something that maybe you can do fast.

If you are, then I want you. You do not have to have 4 years of schooling if you learned it in 1 year.

I have no further speakers. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Agencies should not be allowed to flout the law.

On Tuesday, October 10, I missed two votes to attend to constituent business in my district. Had I been present for the day's vote series, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 558, the passage of H.R. 1858, to designate the facility…

I appreciate that very much. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time, and I withdraw my amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn. The Chair understands amendment No. 71 will not be offered. Amendment No. 72 Offered…

I plan to withdraw my amendment, but before I do, Madam Chair, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) to engage in a brief colloquy.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

The combatant commander asked for the F-35s to fly in Korea a short while ago as a message to those who would try to do our Nation or our allies harm.

I would not shake hands with the government, and I am part of the government.

In a time when the Defense Department maintains technological superiority over our adversaries in combat, our Veterans Affairs Department must continue to push the technological limit to treating our selfless servicemembers once their duty…

I firmly believe that the country is risk aversive, and I think that has stifled us in many of the things that we have tried to do.

If basic research produces the scientific feedstock for innovation, risk-taking small businesses are the catalyst for converting knowledge into new products and services.

Basic research supported with taxpayer dollars through the National Science Foundation, NASA, NIH, DOD, and other Federal agencies underpins the key scientific discoveries that have created today's world.

America's future economic and national security depends on global leadership in key areas of science and technology.

Innovation is the engine to our economy.

I think that there should be an aggressive agenda, especially coming out of small business, to alleviate some of these problems that small business has to go through.

It is also in my opinion for Congress to keep this on budget on time, because that is the only way that the American people are going to see that programs work.

We must ensure our military is never in a fair fight, and the B-21 will do that by enabling our military leaders to strike anywhere at any time.

Government should be the partner, and then if you are doing something wrong, we should be able to come back and say you are doing something wrong and we are going to ask you to correct it.