Dan Webster

I think it is probably the only green filled passenger rail project that will be completed here in the next few years.

This is more also there is just some objections to the--it is kind of cumbersome in the way it is set up.

That is what I heard, there is like this back and forth that seems unending.

That last discussion was worth paying the price to come here. But I would like to say this, to bring it back to where we are, and that is: We have before us a rule. This rule is going to be the gateway--the gateway--to an open process…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Again, I will reiterate the fact that it is what is before us. We cannot get to these two bipartisan, well-thought-out, well-debated, well-collaborated pieces of legislation which deal with some…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to reiterate again the benefits of these two bills that we're going to be debating if we pass this rule. They provide critical funding for military construction, housing, schools, and…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit two letters into the Record. The first letter is from the Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan. In his letter, Chairman Ryan asks the Rules Committee to follow…

Let me finish this first. Another part of that reads: Until such time as we are able to reach agreement and consistent with the practice in previous years when the House and Senate have been delayed in completing action on a budget…

I reclaim my time and will not yield any more time after this. In closing, Mr. Speaker, I am not involved in that process. However, I can tell you this: I was a speaker at one point in time in a different body and at a different time in my…

I've been in this process a long time, not necessarily here, but in other venues, and what I have found is what's before you is before you, and what comes later may or may not come later. But I would say this to the gentlelady, that what…

I just want to remind everyone that we're talking about a rule here. And this rule, different from those that were proposed in the Congresses before I got here, in the 111th Congress, is an open rule. It allows for amendments. If there are…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to my friend and colleague, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 243 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 243 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…

Mobility has the potential to generate hundreds of thousands of more jobs if the Federal Government acts promptly to ensure that additional spectrum is made available to fuel future mobile broadband growth.

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to my colleague on the Rules Committee, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this…

First of all, the amendments that were talked about are amendments that would add to a process that we have said is very sacred. We don't want to change the process. We don't want to circumvent it. We're not circumventing any process…

I just want to say that I know there is a desire to have more T's crossed and I's dotted. There are over 450,000 T's and I's in those 15,000 pages. We've done enough. It's time to build this pipeline. Keystone XL will help lower gas prices…

How much time do I have left? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Colorado has 11 minutes remaining.

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 228 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 228 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…

it is a very important thing to our economy and to our growth of this economy, is infrastructure.

Do you do market share studies?

There are all kinds of means of transportation, one of which has not been, except just in passing, mentioned today, and that is transportation through pipelines.

It is a bipartisan issue that we all know.

On rollcall No. 27, I was unavoidably detained off of the House floor. Therefore, I was unable to cast my vote on H. Res. 39 providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 325). Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''…

Today we remember the children who have died as a direct result of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, and Doe v. Bolton, which were decided 40 years ago today. In the 40 years since that terrible day, my wife, Sandy, and I have…