Would the Chair inquire of the gentleman from Utah if he does accept the request? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah indicated he will not yield for any request for unanimous consent. Parliamentary Inquiries

Reclaiming my time, the gentleman from Utah chose not to answer the simple question of how many people we need to have to bring up this bill. I know that we can get more people to come down because, guess what? We stand ready to solve the…

We are going to continue to try until the gentleman from Utah allows our consent request. I am proud to yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), a true leader on immigration reform, for a unanimous consent request.

Well, Mr. Speaker, I think reducing our deficit by $900 billion is a good idea. I really do. I think the American people agree that reducing our deficit by $900 billion is a good idea; and if all that stands in the way of us reducing our…

I would like to ask the gentleman from Utah if he has changed his mind and will yield for that purpose?

The longer we delay in passing immigration reform, the greater costs of inaction. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows that H.R. 15 would reduce our deficit by $900 billion. Imagine including that, $200 billion in the first…

My colleague, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), mentioned the National Ski Areas Association, and I include their February 11 letter for the Record. It states here, in part: However, to make it abundantly clear that ski areas have…

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 am prepared to close. I have 6 minutes, and I wanted to yield to the gentleman if he has remaining speakers who wanted to speak before I close.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Chair, I want to make it clear that I was an original sponsor of this bill. Like my colleague from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), I wanted to address the 2011 directive as it affected ski resorts…

Just as the storied competition between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox works to improve both teams, so does school choice and empowering families to choose the public school that best fits their kids to improve all of our…

The Republicans are getting worse and worse on these ObamaCare votes. You would think that you would get better with practice, after 52 times they would be better at repealing ObamaCare. That is because this body, the House of…