STEVE KNIGHT: “Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we do not want you to go out of business.”

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.

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…

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 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…