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Reclaiming my time from my friend, I would say reaching out and bringing folks into the program who do not qualify for the program. The rules for the program are clear, Mr. Speaker. If you qualify for food stamps, I am the first one who…
I'll be happy to yield to my friend. Mr. McGOVERN. Just so the gentleman understands, the General Accountability Office says the error rate in the SNAP program is less than 3 percent. What is he talking about when people are getting…
This is important, Mr. Speaker, and I hope folks are paying attention back in their offices. The gentleman is talking about the error rate, the error rate, folks who have mistakenly gotten food stamps because in the application process…
I would be happy to let the gentleman have his own time, Mr. Speaker, because I reserve the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Just by way of time update, the gentleman from Georgia has 6 minutes remaining. The gentleman from…
Then I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question. If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to this closed rule to let the House work its will and to…
I thank my friend from Massachusetts for joining me on the floor today. I will say I think he chose exactly the right words when he was trying to make his points: describe your opposition as hating women and children, and that's your best…
I would say to my friend that I wish he would show me the code sections here that go into the SNAP program, the codes that say, under the SNAP program, the income criteria that we had yesterday is changing, and so folks aren't going to get…
There are no tough choices here. I talked to the gentleman whose seat I took the other day. I said, John, you know, when you were up here as a Congressman, you made it look fun. Folks were always saying thank you, thank you, thank you for…
You know, when I hear my colleagues talk, it sounds as if we have a choice about doing one thing or another thing. I will say to my colleagues, when you're borrowing $1.4 trillion a year from your children---- Ms. DeLAURO. Will the…
Reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman both for his comments and for his offering of that substitute. The reason is threefold: Number one, that substitute doesn't comply with the rules of the House. We made a decision in this body that…
For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to my friend from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 648 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 648 Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order…
I would say to my friend from Massachusetts that I am prepared to close if he has anymore speakers. Mr. McGOVERN. I'm it.
Reclaiming my time, I would say to my friend, what we have within our power is the power to stop the borrowing and the spending. I'm reading here from today's Congressional Quarterly, because folks sometimes get confused, Mr. Speaker. We…
With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous question. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 643 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 643 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…
I'll tell you, I don't actually prepare remarks when I come down here to sit opposite my friend from Florida, because I always know his opening statement is going to be that line by line by line that reminds me of absolutely everything…
For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings) pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…
I actually had this conversation with some schoolchildren in my district over the break, as I'm sure everybody in this body did. They call it a break, Mr. Speaker. The truth is, it's a district work period. You're working every bit as hard…
I thank my colleague from Florida for joining me here for this debate today. And there really are some things that we disagree about here in this body at large. But one thing we don't disagree about is the importance of bringing open rules…
I yield myself such time as I may consume to say I've just gotten the sad news that our friends on the Senate side hadn't just stuck it to us by not passing a budget last year and didn't just stick it to us by not passing a budget this…
I thank the chairwoman, and I thank the chairman of the committee, Mr. Kline. I rise in reluctant opposition to this bill, but in strong support of the committee and the work that they're doing. We got caught up in politics again today. It…
With that, I want to thank the ranking member and the chairman for their tremendous openness throughout this entire process. Briefing after briefing, phone call after phone call, they both made themselves available to Members on both sides…
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 14, after line 13 insert the following: ``(4) No liability for non-participation.--Nothing in this…
My amendment is a simple amendment. What we're doing here in this bill today, to the great credit of the chairman and the ranking member, is instituting a voluntary system by which our private companies and utilities can cooperate in the…
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