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I would like to thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding the time. Today, I rise in support of H.R. 6079, to repeal the President's health care law. H.R. 6079 will end the individual mandate, the tax hikes on the small businesses--of…
I'd like to thank the gentleman from Tennessee for yielding time. As a new Member of this body, it was quite an honor to be appointed a conferee to go to conference. Those who are a part of this body recognize that, that it's usually…
The Southerland-Grimm amendment prohibits funds in the CJS Appropriations Act from being spent on limited access programs otherwise known as catch shares. Ladies and gentlemen, what I'm referring to here is nothing less than a battle to…
Reclaiming my time, in an attempt to answer your question, while you were here since Magnuson-Stevens, my family was continuing 200 years of living on the coast in the Gulf of Mexico. So though I respect your time here, we were there…
Reclaiming my time, I want to make it very clear that this amendment does not affect the West Coast.
They are welcome to get their own time, Mr. Chair, so I would like to finish my statement. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida controls the time.
It is very clear that these catch shares in the bodies of water that I made reference to are an effort by a select group to take away the individual fishing rights of individual citizens and to implement a cap-and-trade system where fish…
You know, what's amazing is I always hear stuff that's not true. I was very clear. The letter that my colleague, Mr. Chairman, read, clearly stated that it would eliminate programs, catch share programs currently in bodies of water all…
I reclaim my time, sir. When the gentleman stood up he mentioned---- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina controls the time.
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…
I'd like to thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. I agree with his comments. Again, I want to be just very clear. I think that the amendment is crystal clear. I think that all Americans who believe---- The Acting CHAIR. The time of the…
I thank the chairman for yielding. We have a lot of folks in the gallery today that have worked hard and saved money that they've earned to make their trip and to come here and listen to this debate. They understand that Santa Claus and a…
the American people expect a Congress, for example, to pass a budget and yet we haven't.
As a small business owner who had never served in elected office before, you can imagine my dismay that this city has no sense of urgency.
America needs what we say to match what we do, to restore integrity that we lost a long time ago with the American people.
We do not need the Federal Government, and we cannot trust the Federal Government to do the very basic things in our life that God gave us the common sense to do.
You place incredible trust, and I will say this in closing. You need to tread lightly, because this beast up here, a government big enough to meet all your needs, is a government big enough to take every single thing you own.
How do you place such trust in such a monstrosity that has grown out of control?
I'd like to thank the gentleman from Louisiana for yielding. I also would like to commend him on his leadership regarding the work that we have performed on this bipartisan effort to really restore the Gulf of Mexico. The five States that…
I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, if we ask the American people what they want, I think it would be glaring. Do they want the House bill that protects seniors' access to doctors for 24 months, or do they…
the problem is you own a natural resource that the private citizens of the country do not.
isn't it somewhat self-serving when the private citizen doesn't enjoy that God-given right?
what these bills all try to do in a very bipartisan effort is to protect the God-given rights of individuals.
And I am sure you understand why there is this massive disconnect between the 200 people that you just gave that answer to and their aggravation with inside the Beltway because what you just did is you just gave them a political speech…
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