I thank the gentleman from Colorado for the time. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 861, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program Termination Act, NSP. We keep hearing from the other side about wasteful government spending. Nothing…

Another project is the Upcountry Maui Watershed Project, providing water to 170 farmers and ranchers on Maui, and also the Wailuku-Alenaoi Watershed and Lahaina Watershed Projects that prevent flooding on Hawaii and Maui. These long-term…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. First of all, the cuts to NOAA and our Weather Service are contained in H.R. 1, and we have not reached agreement on H.R. 1, which is why we are doing yet another CR. And, believe me, those kinds of cut…

I take it that you have concluded that when you provide resources for quality early education, that you certainly set the stage for school success for these children moving forward.

the most important thing we could do to really turn around our education system in terms of dollars put in and the returns that we get is pre-k, pre-k, pre-k.

I think we make a very serious mistake when, in a fervor to cut budgets and to do it in a meat-ax way, we cut the very programs that we're going to need to rely upon in times like this, meaning in the times of the kind of devastation that…

An amendment offered earlier directing the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Secretary of the Treasury to study the negative impacts of underwater mortgages on the housing market and on the U.S…

Thank you. When we think about the kinds of resources in our country that everyone enjoys, think about our national parks. What a tremendous resource for all of us, and so many families go to all of our national parks. Guess who is there…

I am really glad to join the two of you in honoring and acknowledging the work of our Federal workers. ... We need to acknowledge that and honor them.

You mentioned Ms. Edwards and about exploration and about meteorologists. Well, the astronaut program, that's a Federal program. We had a wonderful astronaut from Hawaii, Ellison Onizuka, who tragically lost his life in the Challenger…

Every dollar we spend on quality early learning really comes back to us many times fold, up to $17 worth.

I think that there is a growing consensus around the idea of supporting quality early education.