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Reclaiming my time, indeed I have. I've seen our neighbors there filling those needs as well. Again, it is so frustrating to me, Mr. Speaker, in this body, we do not argue about who are the poorest and the neediest among us. We know with…
Reclaiming my time, I would not ignore those at all. I believe we have made priorities of those in this budget. I look forward to debating that tomorrow. With that, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), another one…
I thank you, and I thank the majority leader for allowing me to utilize the time today. Mr. Speaker, a lot of folks, as votes have finished for the day, have headed for their flights back home. A lot of folks are back in their offices…
As a freshman here on the House floor just 2 years ago, it does my heart good to see my freshman colleagues coming down from the other side of the aisle, because I came down with that same vision 2 years ago to work together to address the…
As highly unorthodox as that is, my great respect for my friend requires that I do.
At this time it is my great pleasure to yield 2 minutes to a good friend here, Mr. Wittman.
House Resolution 66, this rule that we're considering today, will allow for debate on the underlying bill, H.R. 273. This rule that we're considering today is a little bit unusual in that it not only allows for the underlying resolution…
To say the gentleman believes we're wasting the American people's time. An equally precious commodity is the American people's money. I talked earlier about the $10,000 per American inhabitant. A lot of folks do their numbers by American…
Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker--and again, pleasure to yield--I say to my friend, I fear it's thinking like that that's going to take us exactly there. {time} 1500 Mr. Speaker, again, I take no pleasure in this freeze today. I believe in…
I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. This isn't a Republican idea; it's not a Democrat idea; it's not something that was created in the minds of folks who hate Federal employees and the Federal Government. It's an idea that came…
I yield myself 2 minutes. I just want to read from the Simpson-Bowles Commission report. And I want to read from it not because I support everything the Simpson- Bowles Commission had to say. I want to read from it not because it's a bill…
After this one sentence, and that is, in this tough time, until we can get our handle on the debt and the deficit, my constituents continue to look at how their tax dollars appear to be paying salaries and benefits higher to Federal…
I appreciate my friend's comment. He's absolutely right. So my advice to my new freshman colleague from California would be, in this case, it's not an open rule that he's after; it's his colleagues on the Rules Committee working their…
In reclaiming my time, I welcome my friend to the sequestration debate, the one that we tried to have last May with absolutely no assistance whatsoever. Here we are at midnight on sequestration day, saying, Hey, let's do it. Folks, let's…
I will yield to the gentleman to answer this question: The gentleman sees here $10,793. That's the additional burden that the gentleman, when he controlled this Congress for 2 years with the President of the United States, also of his…
I yield myself 4 minutes to talk about cheap political stunts because I see a few cheap political stunts down here from time to time. I don't want to characterize anybody's behavior in that way as I don't think that's appropriate, but what…
I thank the gentleman. In fact, I thought that's where the gentleman's heart lay. As the gentleman knows, the reason the Bera-Connolly amendment is not on the floor today, among others, is that it is nongermane to this legislation. We…
I'd like to say to my friend that I endorse, Madam Speaker, his request to do away with stale political gamesmanship. I would put in the stale political gamesmanship category making a point of order against an unfunded mandate in the bill…
I asked, What would it have taken to get that Joint Select Committee to succeed? Because that's why we're here in sequestration; that's why we're dealing with these things. He said he did not know what more we could have done to find…
I actually asked that question--or a version of it--of the distinguished gentleman from Maryland, the minority whip, last night.
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 66 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 66 Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order…
For the purposes of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida, my friend, Mr. Hastings, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 48 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 48 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…
I just want to say to my friend from New York, for whom I do have tremendous respect and value her counsel, to call this a stupid piece of legislation I think really misses the point about what we're doing here. I would encourage you to…
I'd say to my friend, I'm prepared to close. Mr. McGOVERN. I'm prepared to close as well, Mr. Speaker. I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, this is a very frustrating debate, in large part because it's much ado about…
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