I yield myself 1 minute. Madam Speaker, I want to be clear that we can in this body take up and pass Senate bill 388 if we can defeat the previous question, and this will go directly to the President's desk. There is still time. I think…

Reclaiming my time, it's a simple ``yes'' or ``no'' question. If there is an additional statement the gentleman would like to make, I would be happy to have him explain it on his own time. My time is limited and I have many speakers. But I…

I yield myself 1 minute. Madam Speaker, it's hard to figure out where to start with regard to refuting some of the statements that were made. First of all, again, with regard to the information regarding methane emissions on the EPA Web…

I yield myself 1 minute to respond. I know the gentleman from Florida mentioned the cow flatulence in our committee meeting last night, and it sounded like a topic that bore looking into. I did have a chance to look it up in the interim…

Well, again, the Rules Committee found, and I believe the Parliamentarian advised, that the amendment was germane, and I have not been informed otherwise other than by the gentleman from California. Does the gentleman want to appeal the…

Is the amendment germane to the bill? The Acting CHAIR. Under the circumstances that calls for an advisory opinion, which the Chair will not render. The gentleman from Colorado has 1 minute remaining.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this is indeed a simple bill, one page long. Nevertheless, it is a terrible bill, one page long, and I would like to tell you why. Today with our economy only beginning to recover, I…

Reclaiming my time, the Fairness Doctrine is something that I oppose, I will always oppose, and it is completely consistent. The Fairness Doctrine is consistent with the approach that the gentlelady is approaching with regard to the…

The net-neutrality rules are consistent with the D.C. circuit ruling in Comcast v. FCC and, in fact, that advances the congressional mandates. The rule fulfills the FCC's mandate from Congress and their mandate to encourage broadband…

I will be happy to enter into a colloquy with you on your time. An article from yesterday's StarTribune says, ``Court rejects suit over Net-neutrality rules.'' This happened yesterday. A Federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit by Verizon…

The gentleman from Oregon mentioned KosherNet and other sites that might want to provide proprietary content. I want to be clear that this rulemaking and rulemaking process has nothing to do with proprietary networks. It refers to the…

First with regard to the 1099 closing, I think again we can applaud this as a step forward for small business. Many of us wish that there could have been a different way of paying for it, and I did support it twice in the last session of…

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…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 241, nays 178, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 227]…

I would argue that, in Communist China, the residents there do not have access to the Internet. What they have access to is an Internet minus, and Internet minus are sites that their government deems inappropriate. We risk going down that…

Reclaiming my time, the absence of a net neutrality regime would be the government deliberately conveying value as gatekeepers to the broadband providers and allowing them to decide, based on religious or ideological or economic--or…

Reclaiming my time, I would like to engage in a colloquy with the gentlelady. With regards to the Postal Service, would the gentlelady oppose an effort to say that the Postal Service can, perhaps, decide which mail to deliver, maybe based…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. It's hard to know where to begin in refuting the arguments of my good friend from Tennessee. There were several comparisons that I view as simply out of hand. One of them that was given was that…

You know, we do face a real issue here before us today, a government shutdown in a week that could hurt our security and safety as a nation, and hurt our recovery and job growth. And this real issue deserves a real discussion, a discussion…

Yes, you are correct that the House has passed a continuing resolution; however, that specific resolution has actually failed in the United States Senate. It's actually a rejection. On top of that, the third body, the executive, has…

The Senate sent over a bill that passed unanimously that would make sure that Members of Congress didn't get paid if the government shut down. We can take up that bill today. It's been sitting here at the House desk because Republican…

I thank the gentleman. This bill, the SOAR Act, reestablishes a program to send D.C. students to private elementary and secondary schools. The main issue that I struggle with, that this body needs to struggle with, with regard to this…

If the elected officials and people of Washington, D.C., wanted a system of school vouchers, they would have created it and not relied on the Federal Government. The important moral imperative of education reform can occur with or without…

I thank the gentleman from Ohio for bringing forth this important resolution and finally bringing to the floor of the House the discussion about the war in Afghanistan. Wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. Intelligence estimates are that…

It is my honor to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline).