We can keep having committees to look into Benghazi, but we never act on them.

I happen to agree with you. And I think actually the LPTA requirement that I'm talking about that actually sets very inflexible standards for specifically the Department of State is actually a law passed by Congress in 1990.

This committee, as it's been in the news the last several weeks, has been yet one more step in denigrating this institution.

There was clearly inadequate security, but the focus there was not on partisanship, not on embarrassing the Reagan administration, but on actually figuring out what happened and how we can better protect Americans.

Thanks to the great Secretary Ray LaHood, we were able to actually extend and upgrade the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway.

I, myself, have received services from Planned Parenthood... it was a lifesaver.

As a military woman who just retired after 23 years of service, I would like to ask you to talk a little bit about the services that Planned Parenthood has provided to military men and women and their families for the past several decades.

The very women who are willing to lay down their lives to defend the Constitution of this great Nation were denied services under the Hyde Amendment for abortion services, especially as a result of rape or incest.

I’m troubled by the ongoing attacks to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides such extensive preventative healthcare services to millions of women.

I am here today to recognize one of my outstanding constituents, Ms. Veronica Potter, of Barrington, Illinois. She recently wrote a letter to a hometown paper saying: I know that the service of women in our current history is applauded…

I think that this behavior undermines your mission and the Americans that the agency serves.

So they'll get their money back?

This is shameful. We are better than that.

Did I hear correctly that you don't plan on going back and reimbursing the families?

I'm deeply concerned about this transition period.

This is not just a childcare issue. This is a military readiness issue.

I am ashamed that we have put these families in this situation.

So basically you're screwing the soldiers.

I'm so glad that we're having this much-needed debate in our country, and especially in this committee, on need for reforming our criminal justice system.

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This year's Defense Appropriations bill relies on adding an additional $38 billion into the overseas contingency operations account, the OCO account. This budgeting gimmick is an end around to sequestration. It avoids the hard work that is…

I thank the gentlewoman from D.C. Madam Speaker, I stand today in opposition to this resolution. I want to make clear the consequences of the misguided resolution that we are considering today because it is not about religious freedom; it…

I want to make sure that if you are moving the Apaches out of the Guard, before those Hawks show up, that those crews are actually getting the slots to go to schools so that they can get qualified.

I wanted to sort of chat with you a little bit about the JLTV specifically.

you guys are being forced to make some really tough decisions that put our troops at great risk, potentially great risk, as a result of sequestration; something that we certainly on this side of the hearing room need to do our job to end.