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 I, add the following: SEC. __. EXPEDITED COMPLETION OF AUTHORIZED PROJECT FOR FLOOD…

I urge the adoption of the bill. 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. 4372. The…

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

I urge the adoption of the bill. 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. 5028, as…

I would like to make Congresswoman Lawrence aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I urge adoption of the bill. Mr. Speaker, 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…

First I want to thank Chairman Brady, Ranking Member Levin, the rest of the House Committee on Ways and Means, and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who join in cosponsoring this important legislation, H.R. 4923, the American…

I urge adoption of the bill. 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. 4605. The…

I urge adoption of the bill. 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. 2928. The…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3866 introduced by Congressman Donald Norcross of New Jersey. H.R. 3866 designates the post office located at 1265 Hurffville Road in Deptford…

I urge adoption of the bill. 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. 3866. The…

In 3 years of campaigning, I have not yet, Mr. DeSantis, met one person in my district in northeast Iowa that is against term limits. Everyone wants us to hold a vote on term limits. And I consistently say this gets buried in committee…

I thank my good friend from Florida (Mr. DeSantis) for hosting this Special Order on term limits and giving me the opportunity to speak on this most important subject. Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the…

Some of them need to lose their reelection campaigns. I have consistently said, Ron, that true change never comes from inside the Beltway in Washington, D.C. It always comes from out in America. What we need are grass-roots activists…

I agree with you. We will always storm the hill, my good friend, and plant that flag, regardless of how many times we need to do it. But I would just like to mention some of the bills I have been involved with: Eliminating first-class…

I see it as critically important to saving the government money and also improving the outcomes of our patients.

I thank the chairman. I rise today in support of H.R. 1155, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act. While the full title is a mouthful, I can assure you that the idea behind this bill is simple and…

On rollcall No. 679, I was unavoidably detained and would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

On rollcall No. 545, the Amash Amendment to H.R. 702, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Stated against:

I want to thank you and your committee for your hard work on this most important legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer my support to the passage of H.R. 2393, the Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015. This important…

I thank my friend from Texas and appreciate his hard work on this important legislation.

As a small-business man and a supporter of the private sector, I wish to commend the committee for the inclusion of report language which states: ``The committee encourages NOAA to purchase services from the private sector when such…

I want to make sure that all children, regardless of their zip codes, across this nation have the opportunity to experience their own versions of the Opportunity Scholarship.

Because what troubles me is law enforcement tends to agree with--and I will paraphrase here--but that there is a reasonable standard of privacy, Fourth Amendment rights, when one is in their own home.

And I believe in American exceptionalism. I believe we can have both.