I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Flores The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Florida has 15 seconds remaining.

To close, Mr. Chairman, the bottom line is that what would be fiscally responsible and responsible in general is to not further take a meat ax to a bill that has already been flat- funded for the last 3 years. Our employees deserve a…

I yield 30 seconds of my remaining time to the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr).

At this time, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Farr).

Can you tell me how much time we have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Florida has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 30 seconds remaining.

I am wondering whether that app was privately produced or was produced by taxpayers. As for the $1.99 that you spent on it, were those taxpayer dollars you used to pay for it or from your own personal funds?

It is with great pride that I rise today to recognize the 100th anniversary of the city of Miami Beach in Florida's 23rd Congressional District. Incorporated on March 26, 1915, Miami Beach took its place on the map with only a handful of…

I think our embassies can put also--and our DATs, our defense attaches, can be engaging in, again, encouraging that kind of recruitment.

So it is--again, we are nowhere near where we need to be, but we are in a much--there is much more of a top-down commitment from the U.N. bureaucracy.

So, forgive me for interrupting, Ambassador, but are you realizing efficiencies in that proposed cut?

the line of questioning has focused mostly on the Middle East and Iran, but the subcommittee obviously has other focal points, including food aid and disaster relief.

I hate to use the term 'nuance'--but there is a difference between prohibiting abortion entirely and prohibiting its use as a method of family planning.

the murder, for lack of a better term, of Alberto Nisman puts quite a crimp in the opportunity to make sure that we can more specifically get to the bottom of the perpetrators.

There has been--not on the part of the Administration--an issue surrounding the misinterpretation of the Helms amendment that prohibits the use of funds for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning.

we have seen increased momentum to push for reform of our international food aid programs and make them more effective and more efficient and save more lives in less time.

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey and my colleague Congresswoman Ellmers from North Carolina and rise today in strong support of the Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015, a bill on which I was honored to join as…

I, too, want to thank my colleague and the gentlewoman from south Florida, who has really been a passionate advocate and whom I have stood in solidarity with on this and so many other issues. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 744, the Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2014 or, simply, the STOP Identity Theft Act. Over the past several…

I rise this evening in strong opposition to this resolution that would propose to have the House sue the President of the United States. With only a few hours left before Congress adjourns for the August district work period, we have a…

I thank the gentlewoman from New York, particularly for her leadership in stepping up and bringing to the floor of the United States House of Representatives the incredibly important topic of anti-Semitism, not just nationally but…

First, as the prime sponsor of this legislation, let me thank Chairman Kline, Ranking Member Miller, and the talented staff on the Education and the Workforce Committee for their leadership and guidance in bringing forth this bipartisan…

I rise with many of the women of the House, both Republican and Democrat--the members of the Congressional Women's Softball Team--to share with our colleagues that, last night, at the Sixth Annual Congressional Women's Softball Game, the…

At this time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Bishop), our distinguished ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee.

At this time, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey), our distinguished ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee.