Steve Southerland: “what these bills all try to do in a very bipartisan effort is to protect the God-given rights of individuals.”

The Food Stamp Program, or SNAP, is a food supplement program whose intended purpose is to assure individuals with the very lowest incomes have enough to eat.

I thank the gentleman very much for those sentiments and that offer. We will contact the coaches and see what we can do.

1,700 days and counting: that's how long it's been since the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline was submitted to the State Department. And with each passing day, every new delay, job creation has been stalled and American energy…

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 336, line 8, strike ``$375,000,000'' and insert ``$372,000,000''. At the end of subtitle A of title…