ADAM PUTNAM: “This rulemaking represents a Federal overreach into state affairs; specifically, states' authority to manage water.”

There is no more important issue for this Congress than the issue of resolving the situation in Iraq moving forward together, leaving politics at the water's edge.

There are no excuses and no escapegoats left.

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.

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…