Chris Murphy

What we're asking here today is for that to be taken away from the Federal Government.

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 Connecticut will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 26 printed in…

I think this is a very important debate to have to show who is really focusing on the best use of taxpayer dollars for the creation of U.S. jobs. I appreciate the opportunity to have this debate on the floor of the House. I yield back the…

The Tillman Act prohibited contributions by corporations to political parties for the first time.

Campaign finance laws have existed for more than a century.

Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage without which democracy is doomed.

Today, all individual contributors or aggregate contributors in excess of $200 have to be disclosed.

Most recently in 2002 Congress passed the bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act.

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 Connecticut will be postponed. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Waxman The Acting CHAIR. It is…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Connecticut has 30 seconds remaining, and the gentleman from Louisiana has 3 minutes remaining.

For people that are born with physical and mental disabilities, what I think we strive to do as a society is give them a chance at independent life, give them a chance to succeed just like everyone else. And there is nothing more…

This is a serious problem, as a large number of our people live with 10 or 12 persons in a home that was sized to accommodate only 3 or 4.

Poverty on our reservation remains widespread, with 4 in every 10 homes on the reservation earning less than 30 percent of Median Family income for the area.

While nationwide it is viewed as a crisis when unemployment nears 9 or 10 percent, at Standing Rock we have long-term unemployment, year after year, in excess of 50 percent.

I would like to thank Senator Tim Johnson for his leadership in bringing this hearing to South Dakota.

When it comes down to it, of all the things that drive the recovery in this economy, it's people spending again. And the fact is we'll go back to where we started. At the heart of our economic recovery legislation is putting power in the…

Again, thank you, Mr. Andrews, for working with us on this. Mr. Chair, all of us who represent small manufacturers have heard the stories as they seek to compete with companies that are underpricing them from China, Asia, and across the…

I am counting on them to lead the charge to create more jobs and grow our economy.

This approach, a public-private partnership leveraging existing tax credits for expanded use, is included, on a national scale, in both the Chairman's legislation, S. 1481, the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act.

While the need is obviously great, only a trickle of affordable units come on line each year.

What makes supportive housing work, as you know, Chairman Dodd, is that it is not just the house, but it is the support services that come along with it to make sure that that individual not only has the medical wrap-around services that…

I think is tremendously worthwhile, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention, as well, the tremendous work done by Herb Kohl in this area.

More than 116 percent--that is an incredible number, an untenable, obviously, situation.

I would invite my colleagues, and I think several of you are cosponsors of this, the bill I have introduced called the Livable Communities Act.

We are going to name this, if we can--the work we are working on--the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act.