Just a moment. I'd be happy to yield to my friend. When you're borrowing $1.4 trillion a year from your children, when you're mortgaging the future of this country, it's not a choice of either spending cuts or revenue changes; we've got to…

Reclaiming my time from my colleague, and I very much appreciate her passion--if I can get regular order, please, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut will suspend. The gentleman from Georgia has the time.

I thank the Speaker for his help there. I'm sorry that I needed it, but I appreciate him offering it. You know, we passed a budget in this House, a comprehensive budget in this House. And to hear my colleagues talk, you'd think this is the…

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…

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…

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…

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'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…

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…

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…