I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON CONDITIONING SKI AREA…

I want to be clear that the concerns are by no means limited to the Endangered Species Act. The Republicans may care about endangered species, but they don't care about jobs. The Forest Service, the BLM, Interior, and Agriculture agencies…

Unfortunately, but I regret to say unsurprisingly, the Republicans continue to play politics with Medicare, politics with water that is the lifeblood of the American West and the economic lifeblood of the counties that I represent in Eagle…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adoption of the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, we have two bills before us under this rule, which I will briefly discuss before getting into the more important…

I want to talk about how being a portfolio district that values different governance models...

My All-STAR Act, which I introduced with Representative Petri and many other members of this committee, would improve this program by investing in high-quality charter schools...

This hearing is really helping to showcase the impact of public charter schools as a tool within public education.

Well, I want to come to the floor to wish the Republicans a happy anniversary. I brought a gold ring. This is the 50th repeal of ObamaCare. I want to wish my colleagues a happy 50th anniversary for the appeal of ObamaCare. Like any…

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…

This bill--this 50th anniversary--golden anniversary of ObamaCare repeals here in the House--50th vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, gutting mental parity, health parity, gutting protection for Americans with preexisting conditions…

I do urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question and to vote ``no'' on the underlying bills. We could be doing a lot of important work here in the House rather than to have, I think, what both sides would agree is a…

To the gentleman from Texas, I say it is possible I will have one more speaker. If I see her arrive, I will yield to her. Otherwise, I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, this week, the number of…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 228, noes 182, not voting 20, as follows: [Roll No. 94] AYES--228…

Isn't that wonderful? Isn't this great that the President has made 19 changes to improve the Affordable Care Act to make it work? You know what? That is what a marriage takes. That is what has helped the Affordable Care Act withstand the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, make no bones about it. The individual mandate is a linchpin of RomneyCare--or whatever you would like to call it--modeled on, in fact, the insurance reforms in Massachusetts. This…

We are here today as part of the New Democratic Coalition Immigration Task Force, which I am proud to cochair along with my colleagues, Representative Garcia and Representative Castro. I am here to discuss immigration reform and what the…

I thank the gentleman from California, who has been a tremendous leader in the fight to fix our broken immigration system, for his heartfelt comments. I wanted to quote from last week a Wall Street Journal op-ed that criticized the…

I think most Americans, like myself, are somewhat offended that we don't have the rule of law in this country. There are millions--10 million, 12 million. We don't even know how many people that are here illegally. We don't know where they…

I thank the gentleman from Texas. The strength of our Nation, a nation built on immigrants, is that the best, brightest, and hardest working from across the world want to move here. The countries that have a bigger problem today are those…

Another sector it would be great for is the real estate industry and homes. Many immigrants who don't have their status currently are forced to rent, sometimes under the table. They would be able to finance and buy their own homes, helping…

I do see a role for the federal government there.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 177, noes 241, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 70] AYES--177 Bass Beatty Becerra Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY)…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 231, noes 185, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No. 66] AYES--231…

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…