Alan Grayson: “China is currently on course to overtake the United States in actual R&D dollars spent sometime in the next decade.”

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.

I appeal the ruling of the Chair. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's appeal may not be entertained. As reflected by the ruling of Speaker Crisp of September 20, 1893, an appeal of the Chair's refusal to entertain a motion on the…

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…

We are talking about a minimum wage of $4.25 an hour. That is less than $700 per month. Tell me how anybody can survive anywhere on the island of Puerto Rico on less than $700 a month. It simply isn't possible. The cost of living in San…