I say to my friend that the children we share across our common border, there is not one regulation that this Congress would send to the executive branch that you and I would not come together and pass for the benefit of those children.

I thank the chairman for yielding. I am pleased to come to the floor after my colleague from Georgia. He and I share a common border and we share a lot of common ground, but I have to tell you, Mr. Chairman, he could not be more wrong…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate the Speaker for being down here with us, and I appreciate the comments of my friend from Texas. He says, you know, if you want to, you can just go and read the law. Wouldn't that be neat…

I thank my friend from Florida for yielding. It's not often that I find agreement with both of my friends from Florida at the same time. When I listened to my friend from Florida, my Democratic colleague on the Rules Committee, in his…

Reclaiming my time, I absolutely do not believe it should be standard procedure, but it is. It has been the entire time my friend from Florida has been serving here in this House. Again, we've done better. To the credit of my freshmen…

I thank you for the time, and I appreciate you giving me a moment to set up. I have got to tell you, Mr. Speaker, I love coming to the floor after my good friend from Minnesota. I enjoy it every single time it works out in that way because…

The House is fortunate today to have Reverend Dr. Richard Benjamin Haynes as our guest chaplain. He's a life-long servant of the Lord, growing up as the son of a Baptist minister. He now pastors Salem Missionary Baptist Church in my home…

Thank you very much. I thank my friend from Tennessee for yielding. I just have to say, for folks who haven't been following your short 15 months here closely, they don't usually put freshmen on the Ways and Means Committee. They just…

I thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate you staying late on a Friday afternoon so that the gentlelady from the District of Columbia can have her time; and I can have a little time, too. I know folks often think, Mr. Speaker, that votes have…

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…

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…