I'd like to commend the Department for proposing this for intermodal freight needs.

Mr. Secretary, I'll have to go to vote, but may I submit my questions for your response later?

Stop-gap spending bills are not the appropriate vehicle for setting long term domestic, foreign, or defense policy.

It is challenging to do that when the administration only submits its request one week before the committee must mark up the bill.

Congress has the constitutional authority to appropriate funds and the solemn responsibility to exercise that authority wisely.

The Administration has an obligation to be honest and forthcoming with the American people about the costs of this war.

[O]ur amendment will correct any instance where any federally recognized Indian tribe has been classified as 'created' and that it will prohibit such classifications from being imposed or used in the future.

Tribal sovereignty must be preserved and protected by the executive branch and not limited or divided into levels.

It is of course in their mutual interests of these parties to reach an agreement: the broadcaster will want access to the audience served by the cable system, and the cable operator will want the attractive programming that is carried on…

I am confident, as I believe other cosponsors of the bill are, that the FCC has the authority under the Communications Act and under the provisions of this bill to address what would be the rare instances in which such carriage agreements…

permit local stations, not national networks . . . to control the use of their signals.