Alan Grayson

I think it is really important that the American public hear that under their leadership we have come together to support this legislation.

Respectfully, Mr. Chairman, I think they are inextricably entwined. I don't see how I can do one without the other. May I continue? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman may proceed in order.

I believe I have. May I continue? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman may not debate the underlying bill but must confine himself to the matter of privilege.

Yes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for that purpose.

Again, Mr. Speaker, I don't believe you can properly do that without being fully informed as to the facts here. May I proceed? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman may proceed in order.

I agree that relatives who are knowingly involved in a way that intentionally subverts the sanctions... should be punished to the extent the Constitution permits that.

I really question the constitutionality of a provision that punishes nephews on account of the actions of uncles.

I understand that certain members on the other side of the aisle wish to make some kind of point that citizenship conveys Constitutional rights that non-citizens don't have.

Our strength in this country comes from the fact that we are a nation of laws, and we need to respect the highest law of all. That is the Constitution.

This legislation sends a message to all of the other countries of the Middle East who are also terribly threatened by an Iranian nuclear power that this shall not be tolerated.

Apparently, we are no longer satisfied with writing the laws. We have now taken it upon ourselves to execute them as well. This discredits the institution, not only within the Federal Government-- complicating our constitutional…

Thank you. The Supreme Court held in Bowsher v. Synar that ``interpreting a law enacted by Congress to implement the legislative mandate is the very essence of `execution' of the law,'' and that's exactly what is being proposed here. The…

I understand that. But I don't think that the Chair can properly be informed of that question without the material that I'm providing to the Chair right now. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman may proceed in order.

``by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to the Department of State as supplemented to include the Nebraska reroute evaluated in the Final Evaluation Report issued by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality in January 2013 and…

Doctor, if you don't know whether or how much Agent Orange was released, how could you possibly reach that conclusion?

Okay, Doctor, my question was is it fair to say with a scientific certainty that bombing has led to environmental damage through the release of toxins?

Gentlemen, we could spend each year a million dollars on space threats, we could spend a billion dollars or we could spend a trillion dollars.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I want to share something with the Representative from Wisconsin and with the Chair. We labor here under an awful barrier, and that barrier is this: we are required to actually be original. I…

Here in the House and in the Senate and with the President's pen, we make policy for America. We make foreign policy. We make security policy. We make health policy and environmental policy. And we make economic policy. And it's time to…

We've heard endless braying from the Republicans time after time, demanding an extension of tax cuts for the rich in this country. They tell us that extending the tax cuts for the rich will somehow create jobs when we've had these tax cuts…

I am returning to a subject that I began yesterday. This is the second episode of what the rich are going to do with all those tax cuts that the Republicans want to give to them through extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich in lieu of…

Sometime between now and December 31 we will be discussing tax cuts--specifically, whether to extend the President Obama tax cuts for the middle class or whether to extend the George W. Bush tax cuts for the rich--and I think it is…

You know, you know, the -- the same people who believe that are the people who also believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

I'm simply trying to let people know about my opponent's 30-year record as a career politician, despite the fact that people like you try to misconstrue the things that we have said.

Actually, what I'm trying to do is to point out in a vivid way that this is somebody with an 18th century name and a 13th century conception of how women should live in America.