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. The vote…

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 230, noes 188, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 564] AYES--230 Amash…

I want to thank the chair and the ranking member for their hearing, as well as the support of this bill. For those of us who represent areas of the country where the Federal Government is a major landowner, it is absolutely critical to be…

Tonight we will be talking about a very important accomplishment that this body, the House of Representatives, could make on a bipartisan basis for our country, and that is immigration reform. By refusing to act on comprehensive…

I will address the question to my good colleague and friend from Texas. We might be able to use the $200 billion in immigration reform to bring down the individual or corporate tax rate. I will be happy to pose that question to my good…

If we defeat the previous question, we will offer an amendment to the rule that would allow the House to consider the Make It In America Manufacturing Act of 2013. To discuss the proposal, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Rhode…

I represent a district with two fine universities--the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University. Both have excellent graduate programs--engineering, physics, environmental engineering, the biological sciences, you…

I thank the gentleman from Miami. I want to talk a little bit about supporting Colorado. Colorado is a purple State. It is middle of the road, with four Republicans and three Democrats in our congressional delegation. It is a State that is…

I thank the gentleman from Miami, a leader on the effort to reform our broken immigration system. I want to talk about the overwhelming public support for immigration reform. More than 70 percent of the American people support immigration…

So we can improve our security, and we can restore the rule of law, and we can create jobs for Americans, and we can reduce our deficit--all in one bill? What is not to like? I yield to my colleague from probably the longest congressional…

As we watch this train wreck in slow motion, this Republican shutdown of government, I ask myself, in trying to understand what the Republican majority is doing: Why--why are they seeking to close down government? Is it because some of…

I thank the gentlelady for the time. Mr. Speaker, here we are, T minus 6 hours and 7 minutes till a shutdown of our Federal Government, the greatest country on the face of the Earth with such a dysfunctional Congress that we can't even…