I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question so that we can do the right thing for working families and the millions of people looking for a job and vote on an unemployment extension and a payroll tax holiday and…

It is my honor to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin).

If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to require that we vote on an unemployment benefit extension and that we vote on a payroll tax holiday extension for next year before we leave for the holidays. I…

A huge tax increase is looming unless this House takes action immediately. Unless this House takes action in the next few weeks, a typical American household earning $50,000, $60,000 a year will see a tax increase of $1,000 a year on…

It is my honor to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California, the ranking member of the Education and Workforce Committee, Mr. Miller. (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I thank the gentlelady for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill. Mr. Speaker, with this rule and underlying bill, Congress…

I did yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from California. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.

Very well. I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, the middle class of this country doesn't need a higher payroll tax, more dirty air, dirty water, fewer workers' rights; and they certainly don't need more partisan gridlock in…

I thank the gentlelady from New York. Mr. Speaker, I have to voice my opposition to an insidious provision that has been added to this bill at the last minute by agribusiness and the frozen food industry, and that is a change that allows…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. In hearing the story of my friend from Florida and my colleague on the Rules Committee, again I think it just emphasizes that my State, Colorado, also has a concealed-carry process. We have a…

Again I express appreciation to both majority and minority leaders for expedited action in trying to get to the President's desk these two important measures. With that, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania…

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 adoption…