Parliamentary inquiry, Madam Chair. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Would the Chair specify the definition of her last statement. The Acting CHAIR. All Members were given authority to insert such material by an order of the House. Executive Summary DEBT, DEFICITS, AND DEFENSE: A WAY FORWARD [Report of the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title XII, add the following new section: SEC. 12__. REDUCTION IN END STRENGTH LEVEL OF…

These specific suggestions that are based on the Sustainable Defense Task Force may not be a book, but it is 30- pages' long, and, without objection, I would like to submit its ``Executive Summary'' for the Record. The Acting CHAIR. The…

I would like to inquire as to how much time remains on both sides. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado has 1 minute remaining. The gentleman from Ohio has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Given our looming fiscal crisis and record deficits, it's critical that we look at smart spending cuts in a responsible way that doesn't hurt our national security--in fact, the budget deficit and our huge national…

Even Donald Rumsfeld believes it is time to change this policy. In his recent book, he wrote, ``Of the quarter million troops deployed abroad in 2001, more than 100,000 were in Europe, the vast majority stationed in Germany . . . Those…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, strike ``and'' after the semicolon at line 4, strike the period at line 6 and insert ``; and'', and after…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Garamendi The CHAIR. It is now in order…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, strike the closing quotation marks and second period at line 9, and after line 9 insert the…

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. Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…

This underlying legislation's very basic safety review provision simply doesn't address the broad swath of problems that need to be addressed by any serious offshore drilling bill. My amendment is a simple way of ensuring that the many…

Following last year's BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, one would think that a foundational and critical element of any bill related to offshore deepwater oil drilling would be to improve our safety and environmental safeguards based on the…

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 adopting the…

I yield myself the balance of my time. With regard to the last comment, it is the oil cartels that drive prices, not the normal functions of the market and supply and demand. With regard to the oil subsidies, Mr. Speaker, we have an…

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, in its analysis of the administration's budget, stated that the repeal of oil and gas preferences are ``likely to have no effect on the world price of fossil fuels, and any increase in prices…

I yield myself 30 seconds. Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to provide that, immediately after the House adopts this rule, we will bring up H.R. 1689, the Big Oil Welfare Repeal Act of…

How much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado has 3 minutes remaining.

I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

With regard to the subsidy issue, the simple fact of the matter is that the Republicans are not for free markets. But what they are for is Big Oil co-opting free markets. In fact, 70 percent of all energy-related subsidies go to fossil…

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 245, noes 167, not voting 20, as follows: [Roll No. 294] AYES--245 Adams…

Today the House considers the BP respill bills. That might not be what they are officially called, but it's a much more accurate title for this legislation. It's clear that the authors of these BP respill bills did not learn any lessons…

It is my honor to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Andrews). (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Welch), a former member of the Rules Committee.

This continuing resolution is a first step, all right. It is a first step towards bankruptcy with token cuts. Madam Speaker, I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), a member of the Rules Committee…