ADAM PUTNAM

While I would love to engage the gentleman in his theory that big oil companies caused Hurricane Katrina on the rule about consideration of legislation on the same legislative day, I reserve the balance of my time.

The gentlewoman is correct when she characterizes this as an unusual time. It is almost 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and the Congress is in session. These are very unusual times as we approach the end of this first session of the 109th…

The amendment addresses two issues, food stamps and Medicaid transformation grants. On the issue of food stamps, it ensures that recipients of noncash TANF benefits will continue to be categorically eligible for food stamps and it…

I have not memorized all of Matthew, but I am pretty sure he did not like calling kids Nimrods. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Beauprez).

The gentleman clearly has come to the floor a little bit early, because all of these things are going to be eligible for debate here in another several hours when we move forward on our deficit reduction package, and the gentleman will…

Just briefly, I respect the gentleman's observation that the majority party in the Senate is the party that I share, the Republican party, but I learned a long time ago to stop trying to answer for that Chamber over there. That is a tough…

Before I respond to the figs and the gigs, may I inquire as to the time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bonilla). The gentleman has 15\1/2\ minutes remaining.

It is a pleasure to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), our distinguished majority whip.

Mr. Speaker, I certainly share the gentleman's concern about the situation that people up north find themselves in. It is a situation, to be honest, that is somewhat unfamiliar to me, having been raised in Florida and never having seen…

I want to just rise and join any colleagues from Florida and the rest of the Congress in expressing my profound appreciation for the assistance that is on its way to a number of States but particularly Florida. Words are inadequate to…

Mr. Speaker, on four occasions in a span of 6 weeks, portions of my home State of Florida have been designated disaster areas. Additionally, areas in nine other States have been declared disaster areas due to hurricane-related damage…

The 2000 census was the most accurate census in this Nation's history. In a Nation as large and diverse as ours, we will never, ever have a perfect count, and they have been doing these since Caesar. There is yet to be a perfect count. I…

On behalf of a very proud Tampa Bay area, an area that has been growing an awful lot of champions in a variety of sports over the last several years, I urge adoption of House Resolution 668.

Mr. Speaker, on March 14, 2003, the National Wildlife Refuge System celebrated its centennial anniversary. A hundred years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt established the first refuge, the Pelican Island Bird Reservation in Florida's…

In addition to the other fine things that have been said about Paul Ecke, Jr., he also led the horticulture industry's successful effort to include for the first time significant research funding for floral and nursery crops in the…

I have met them. I have walked on their land. I have heard their problems. For us to trade away their jobs to a Third World country that uses labor practices that have been banned here for a century, chemicals that have been banned here…