Again, my colleague from Georgia mentioned that there are no Democrats behind this initiative. Again, Democrats were not consulted or talked to to ask for their support or input into this initiative. And you won't find much support for a…

This smoke-and-mirrors bill before us today actually stands to increase--yes, increase--the deficit of the United States of America by over $100 billion. Let me walk the Speaker through the math here. This is why credit ratings matter…

Our country is facing an incredibly important moment as critical decisions need to be made regarding the national debt and our long-term deficit and how to constrain spending. Members on both sides of this aisle recognize the reality that…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Now, again, I know how my colleague from Texas and my colleague from North Carolina have discussed how tough these economic times are and how Congress needs to tighten its belt, and that's true…

I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in opposition to the rule; again, a rule that is not an open rule that allows for different…

It's particularly ironic that this session of Congress opened with a recital of the United States Constitution which really just, in the vote yesterday, has been debased. And our democratic Republic has been debased to an extent that I…

What is being talked about today in terms of inserting language into our United States Constitution that constrains fiscal policy is nothing more and nothing less than a perversion of our democratic Republic. To take a major power away…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill before us. Mr. Speaker, I support a balanced budget amendment, but what the majority has brought before the House…

There are ongoing negotiations about how to deal with our Nation's budget deficit. And while we need to make the tough cuts as part of the package, we also need new revenues. One idea for new revenues would be to regulate and tax marijuana…

From a purely self-interested perspective as a Coloradan--and perhaps we have very little to lose as we're a headwaters State--snow that falls in my district on the continental divide will either end up in the Arkansas and Mississippi…

I don't agree with what the gentleman from Ohio said. I don't believe that this should be yet another unfunded mandate on the States. While the number of unregulated facilities has more than doubled in the last decade, many State…

Our country's worst polluters don't deserve a get out of jail free card. I think that's an unintended consequence of the current language of the bill, absent this amendment. And I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to adopt…