Perhaps my friend and colleague from Colorado isn't aware that there already is extensive experimentation about the potential of oil shale to meet our energy needs. In fact, there are millions of dollars spent every year in research that…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Hastings of Washington The Acting…

Well, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to strongly support this commonsense amendment to preserve our land, our jobs, and our water in the West.

It's my honor to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I have to say, after hearing my colleague from Florida, I'm a little bit confused about where he stands. Certainly, his arguments were many of the same arguments that I and others…

I thank my colleague from Georgia for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in opposition to this structured rule. This is yet another example of this Congress' remarkable ability…

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question. I urge a ``no'' vote on the rule, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I will yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I know that significant issues still remain with the Civilian Property Realignment Act in its current form. The gentleman discussed the potential savings from this bill. To be clear…

I thank my colleague from Florida for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in opposition to the structured rule. While the unemployment numbers are now at their lowest point in 3…

I, however, don't believe it is a fix-all or somehow remedies all the problems we have with our budgetary process.

If both parties want to work together to ensure a smooth budget process, they can do so now.

Ultimately, it doesn't solve the primary issues with the dysfunction around our budgetary process.

We know that in a Federal budget process, we have a political debate, and making the Federal budget biennial won't stop those debates.

Well, the gentleman from South Carolina didn't give me a chance to answer the question that he posed to me. He said, what's rich and what's fair? What I and many others have proposed is that people making over $1 million a year in income…

I am prepared to close as well. I ask the Speaker how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado has 8\1/2\ minutes. The gentleman from South Carolina has 5\1/2\ minutes.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to quote from an article in The Hill. My friend and colleague Mr. Mulvaney from South Carolina said that this entire procedure ``is just a fig leaf for some Republicans to say…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, Americans are urging both parties, Republicans and Democrats, to work together to solve the basic challenges that this country faces, joblessness, a tax code that rewards those with…

I would like to ask my friend from South Carolina if he has any remaining speakers.

Before further yielding, I yield myself a minute. Mr. Speaker, to hear the other side, they doth protest too much. Why does a party for whom 147 Members voted to spend $915 billion, causing the deficit, which is roughly a trillion dollars…

Today many Web sites across the Internet, from Reddit to Wikipedia, have blacked out their sites in protest of a bill before this body, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its accompanying bill in the Senate, the PIPA Act. These bills threaten…

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…

I want to thank my colleague for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I rise today in opposition to the rule and the bill. Mr. Speaker, what exactly are we doing here? We could be talking about creating jobs for the middle class. We…

I yield myself 30 seconds. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from South Carolina complained about the President's budget, he complained about a lack of budget in the Senate. What he failed to acknowledge is that the budget the Republicans adopted…

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. The 10-year figure for that deficit from the CBO itself, $5.1 trillion in deficit spending. And again, the same Republicans who spend $915 billion here in December are again saying now that the…

Well, finally, Mr. Speaker, we have some bipartisan agreement. My colleague from Louisiana called this vote a sham. My colleague from South Carolina called this a fig leaf to disguise excess Republican spending. I think we have agreement…