Rod Blum

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title III, add the following: SEC. __. CEDAR RIVER, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. The Secretary shall…

Is there accountability? I just find it incredible. Is there accountability there? Why aren't heads rolling? Why aren't people terminated?

To me, it is almost like legalized extortion, in that you can get a letter--and we have, our company has--get a letter that says, you know: You are violating this innocuous patent we have never heard of because you--I will use an extreme…

It reminds me of someone buying a drug that there is only one available in the country and then raising the price 100-fold.

Get out of my back pocket with excessive taxes so I am not spending time and money on that.

We do not need tariffs to compete. We need just the opposite. We need to engage in more free trade agreements.

Get off my back with excessive regulations so I am not spending time and money on that.

The complex favors the large.

I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Blum) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 1132, as…

I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time

I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Blum) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 3737. The…

I would like to make the gentleman from Virginia aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. I enjoy my colleague from Virginia's rather dry sense of wit and humor. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Blum) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 4043, as…

It is imperative--imperative--that we identify and help mitigate the difficulties identified by small, rural carriers in deploying broadband so we can begin to close the urban and rural digital divide.

one of the reasons we are the greatest nation on the face of this earth is because of the rule of law.

I must say, first of all, I am a huge, huge supporter of the Tenth Amendment.

I have often heard that warfare of the future will not be about bullets and bombs; it will be about bits and bytes. So this is a war. Are we winning the war or are we losing the war?

I agree with you, I think a sane immigration policy is important, or we will not achieve the economic growth rates we want to achieve.

I would suggest that raising wages is one of the most important things that we can do to really fuel consumer demand.

The only time I hear some of my colleagues express their concern about the deficit is when this body is considering policies to let hardworking American families keep more of their hard-earned money. This is not the government's money. It…

The bill was just released last week, everyone is still going through the details, but our current tax system is Byzantine and antigrowth.

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding and for his time managing today's floor debate. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1074, a bill I first introduced in the 114th Congress, which would repeal a 1948 law that…

The closest thing we have to eternal life on this planet is a government program or a government regulation.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 420, noes 0, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 568] AYES--420 Abraham…