ADAM PUTNAM

This rulemaking represents a Federal overreach into state affairs; specifically, states' authority to manage water.

I want to honor him for his outstanding representation of our industry through all of our challenges over the past 10 years.

You will see a stifling new increase of taxes, both on families and on small businesses. And there will be no one at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue with a veto stamp that is Obama, Pelosi and Reid. And all that that entails.

There are no excuses and no scapegoats left.

There are no excuses and no escapegoats left.

It is not theoretical anymore, because this is now the 27th day that we have denied our intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials the tools they need to keep America safe. It is not partisan because the bill that we are asking…

I remind the gentleman again that the House had an opportunity to pass a minimum wage bill, and we passed it over the objections of the other side of the aisle. We passed it.

Madam Speaker, we need to get the boots on the ground to secure our borders, the money for 1,200 new Border Patrol agents, new Customs officials, and the modernization and authorization for our intelligence and law enforcement officials to…

I thank the Speaker, and I would inform my friend from Florida that I have no further speakers and we prepared to close as well.

I say to my friends again, we agree on the technology having been improved. We agree on the need for a comprehensive solution. But you all agree with us that 3 miles is too close. If that is the case, let's adopt this amendment and do this…

We appreciate that. Obviously, the Wildlife Grant Fund is something that is a formula-driven process and was an imperfect vehicle, but we certainly wanted to take this opportunity to make the important case for doing everything we can to…

We like to give credit where credit is due, and being big fans of intellectual property rights, since we protect intellectual property, the real creative genius in that belongs to Mr. Gephardt. To my friend from Massachusetts, we have had…

I rise to make two clarifications. One, to my friend from Massachusetts, I would clarify that the rule he seeks to repeal is commonly known as the Gephardt rule. Secondarily, I would clarify the clarification made by my friend Mr. Spratt…

Well, Mr. Speaker, I think it is pretty clear we made our point. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1845 Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I would ask the gentleman where the Blue Dog budget is? Where is the Blue Dog substitute amendment? We are looking for it. We can't find it. There is no Blue Dog substitute amendment. It is back on the porch. It is in the pound. It is in…

There have been three references to a Blue Dog substitute that is mythical. It is as mythical as the $727 billion tax gap, Wizard of Oz smoke and mirrors that is in one of the other substitutes. It is as mythical as the numbers that they…

I reserve my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank).

But we also want to make sure that we're preparing this nation for the future and reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

Relaiming my time, the gentleman had suggested that the other 420 Members of the House had not had access to the information, and that is precisely how it is set up, that they would not have access to that information. That is why we have…

Perhaps in the gentleman's stack of letters that we are entering into the Record, he could find the thank you notes from the veterans who thank us for finally, after decades of inactivity under the previous leadership, acting on concurrent…

My colleagues join me in complimenting your selection of neckwear this morning. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell), one of our newer members of the Budget Committee and a CPA.

Under your definition, sir, people continue to get more money year after year after year and it is a cut. Under your definition.

We have worked our way through Dickens, Dr. Seuss, and the entire New Testament. I wait to see what else awaits us.

We have run through the gospels and now we are on to Dickens. We have heard it all. We would take away the crutches, the eyeglasses, and the hearing aids from Tiny Tim. I guess the other side would just tax him. I am pleased to yield 4…