To go back to the place I was earlier, and that is how one of the worst things we do in this institution is create fears in the minds of the American people. The gentlelady from California has a powerful voice. She is listened to, admired…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 438 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 438 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I thank the gentlelady from New York. I appreciate her mentioning all of those things that we are working on together. The gentlelady is absolutely right: we had an opportunity in the Rules Committee last night to add to these bills that…

At this time, it is my great pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. Tom Cole, a member of the Rules Committee.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 250, nays 147, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 33, as…

In reclaiming my time, I would say to my friend, who has incredible expertise on this issue, that, instead of being on this floor, impugning our committee's process or impugning my heart, the gentleman could be hard at work in creating a…

In just one moment, I would be happy to yield to my friend from Maryland. We have here on the floor, Mr. Speaker, a rule, again, to bring bipartisan, bicameral agreements on the budget, bipartisan, bicameral agreements on Medicare…

In just one moment, I will be happy to yield to my friend. Folks back home are so frustrated, Mr. Speaker. They know that we can argue with each other. They are absolutely convinced we can do that. We do that every single day. Today, we…

Reclaiming my time, I would say to my friend that I wouldn't want anyone to be confused who is listening to this debate that we can't find agreement on this in a bipartisan way. Why would folks come to that conclusion? Well, much has been…

To say that I think the gentleman characterized much of that exactly right, and his characterization of all we have to do to make his idea a bipartisan idea is to agree to do it his way--that is all we have to do--and that is not the way…

I say to my friend that I absolutely share his passion for privacy protection. In fact, I had to leave a hearing we were having in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee today, Mr. Speaker, where we were looking at the ObamaCare Web…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 403 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 403 =========================== NOTE =========================== November…