Alan Grayson: “The people of Puerto Rico deserve no less.”

This amendment is identical to other amendments that have been inserted by voice vote into every appropriations bill considered under an open rule under the 113th and 114th Congresses and, in the last few weeks, under a structural rule. If…

When I look at these resolutions regarding Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the bill regarding the Ukraine and the Crimea, what is missing to me is a sense of respect for the wishes of the people involved.

This amendment is nearly identical to an amendment that passed by voice vote last year. I hope we will agree on its passage again this year.

Reclaiming my time, again, addressing a question to the gentleman from New Jersey: If you maintain that abortion is murder--which is pretty much what you just said--then why do you not believe that the women who have these abortions should…