I thank the gentleman from Florida. Mr. Speaker, in Washington over the last few months, we have seen a lot of what we are seeing today, a lot of talk from my Republican colleagues about ideological budget cuts and about divisive social…

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…

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 10, line 6, after subparagraph (C), insert the following new subparagraph: ``(D) Technical…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, this amendment is fairly simple. While the underlying bill, though, I think very wrongly prevents the EPA from going forward on regulating greenhouse gases, my amendment affirms that…

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.

I yield myself the balance of my time. I would inquire of the gentleman as to how he thinks this amendment guts the underlying legislation. All this amendment does is simply allow for the EPA to continue working with States on their own…

Poll after poll shows that Americans oppose repealing or defunding health care. The latest one says 62 percent of Americans oppose these efforts. Why? Because they have figured out that the nonsense coming from Republicans over the last…

On a day that we're talking about the continuing resolution, I want to talk about a body that may someday be judging the continuing resolution--the Supreme Court. There is perhaps nothing more important to the preservation of our democracy…

I rise in strong support of the amendment from the gentleman from Florida. Cutting spending is not easy, but this one should be. I think the gentleman hit it right on the head. You are talking about the Department of Defense, the Secretary…

This past Monday marked the 1-year anniversary of the disaster at the Kleen Energy Systems power plant in Middletown, Connecticut. That blast claimed six lives and injured dozens of others last February. It could have been prevented…

I rise, as did other Members of the Connecticut delegation, to pay tribute to a great man who served the State of Connecticut and his community of Danbury in a variety of ways, Bill Ratchford. Bill Ratchford passed away recently, and the…

When I testified against this repeal before the Rules Committee, I told a story about a family in my district. The husband lost his job and, therefore, his insurance because of a debilitating injury. This family faced a choice: They either…

In the middle of the health care debate, a gentleman came into my office in Waterbury, Connecticut, and delivered a petition signed by 3,000 people. He was fighting two battles--one against the cancer that was ravaging his body and another…

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…

I am proud to stand here today with my colleagues in support of S. 1481, the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2009. This is a reauthorization and improvement upon the existing section 811 supportive housing program…

My constituents are willing to support this Congress borrowing money, but only if all of that effort is targeted at creating jobs. This bill fails that test. We're going to borrow almost $900 billion under this bill in order to give…

The more I learn about the Department of Defense's procurement policies and the procurement policies of other agencies, the more angry I get, the more angry this Congress should get, and the more angry the American citizenry should get. In…

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.

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.

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

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.

Thank you and the committee for bringing this bill before us. There's $13 billion in this legislation for construction. That's more in the last 4 years combined than any 4-year period since the 1940s. And though that will mean…

This past weekend I went door to door in Waterbury, Connecticut, where unemployment today is 14.1 percent. Guess what everybody wanted to talk about? They wanted to talk jobs. People in Waterbury never shied away from hard work. This is…

A few weeks ago I visited a company in my district, Integro, and through the enforcement of the Buy America clause, their business in making lighting for airstrips has almost doubled. In visiting them, I found out that they then have…

Listen, everybody should take a look at that chart that was next to Representative Tonko. It's not a coincidence that from month to month to month in the last year of the Bush administration we lost more and more and more jobs, and then…