My amendment would establish minimum privacy standards for smart meters on people's homes which are part of the smart electric grid. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, as of 2013, nearly 52 million smart meters have…

My amendment would increase the number of Federal Reserve Districts from 12 to 15. The three new districts would be for northern California, southern California, and Florida; based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Orlando. No current…

My amendment would simply make the one- time audit required by section 13 of this bill an annual audit. A 2011 GAO audit of the Fed, the only independent Fed audit in its 102-year history, detailed how the United States provided at least…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of the bill the following: SEC. 17. AMENDMENT TO FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS. (a) In…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 44, line 25, insert ``annually'' after ``shall''. Page 45, line 7, strike ``the audit'' and insert…

Why do we have a national lab system instead of taking the same amount of money and dispersing it through DOE to competitive grants open to everybody, presumably the best offeror?

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

The national labs are unique and irreplaceable. They must be a high priority in our budgetary decisions both now and in the future.

The United States invests more than any other nation in research and development, yet when you put that investment in context as a percentage of our GNP, it becomes much less impressive.

When we talk about foreign affairs, we are not talking about necessarily foreign affairs, something removed from us.

It is our duty as human beings to fight it, to make sure that we stand with others who are being oppressed.

What we want above all is we want people to be able to reach their potential without being barred from that by discrimination.

USA Today recently reported that physical and cyber attacks on the power grid occur about once every four days.

We as a society are increasingly dependent on the services electricity provides, and the electric grid has quietly become the basis of our modern lives.

However, our electrical system is under constant stress from severe weather, malicious acts, and age.

50 years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed the law that created Medicare and Medicaid--the most important healthcare programs in our country's history prior to the Affordable Care Act. With one stroke of his pen, President…

If the agreement is implemented, do you suspect or do you think that there is a significant risk that Iran will cheat on the agreement and develop a nuclear weapon secretly?

This policy, signed into law twice under President George W. Bush, requires an increase in the production of biofuels.

The sheer volume of America's oil use means we are constantly furthering global climate change and its disastrous effects.

But let me give somebody else a chance. Mr. Red, is there any reason why Brazil can do it and the United States can't?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

This amendment is identical to other amendments that have been inserted by voice vote into every appropriations bill considered under an open rule during the 113th and 114th Congresses. My amendment expands the list of parties with whom…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 62, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,212,000) (increased by $2,212,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I want to thank Chairman Calvert and his staff for working with me on this amendment. It simply seeks to decrease and then increase by the same amount within the $2.5 billion appropriation for the environmental programs and management…

I think it is important to state as a principle explicitly in this bill exactly what we are doing but also what we are not doing.