I am opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Polis moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4348 to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure with…

Usually when something is killed, it stays dead. But just like a zombie movie, some earmarks refuse to die and return to life as wasteful deficit spending. That's what has happened with this bill and what my simple commonsense amendment…

This amendment is the Bishop bill and the Corrine Brown bill, which would simply allow the House the opportunity to vote on the Senate bill, which, given the strong bipartisan majority in the Senate, I believe would pass the House of…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Again, there were several amendments offered in Rules Committee to make this bill better. To help reduce the budget deficit, my colleague, Mr. McGovern, introduced an amendment ending $40 billion in…

I yield the gentlewoman an additional 1 minute. Ms. DeLAURO. I am going to repeat it, our job, the job that all of our constituents gave to us--they gave us this job--we are here to represent their interests and the consumers, not the oil…

This is not smoke and mirrors. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro). Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I would just add one more thing: the amount of subsidies that we are giving to multinational corporations who are taking their jobs…

I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) to respond to the gentlelady. Mr. McGOVERN. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, give me a break. I mean, oil companies are making record profits. We are…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill, H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of…

The House cannot hide behind smoke and mirrors, behind wasteful pork--from Alabama to the Yukon. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 246, noes 177, not voting 8, as follows: [Roll No. 166] AYES--246…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5-minute votes on adopting…