Mike Pompeo

The proposal, my friends, is very simple. The FDA, our Nation's foremost food safety authority, should have the authority to require labeling on genetically-modified foods.

You are going to get this much less--or this much more of something that is really good.

This is about politics, right? That is why Mr. Podesta is over at EPA working on this.

It was unlawful, it was lawless, much like you are proposing here.

I view it as nothing more than a price control. I think we have seen how that works in creating supply, and I think it is a very dangerous path that you are headed down.

The House has debated legislation authored by Representative Mike Pompeo to bring some discipline and accountability to the pipeline permitting process.

I think we should get rid of them all.

Yes, I appreciate that, real health effects of these regulations impacting folks adversely as opposed to what the proponents of these rules would say they are going to improve the health of citizens in Arkansas and places like…

Science is about testable propositions, right? You satisfy the regulations and this is the impact we would expect this would have on climate change.

This is about global leadership. This isn't about actually impacting climate change. This is about feeling good about ourselves.

You know, we heard from some folks on the other side today the Republicans aren't interested in solutions.

Typically we regulate when there is a market failure.

I am not quite as sanguine that we are in a place where we are quite ready to move down this path.

I just reiterate there is enormous importance to this legislation. While I appreciate that the gentleman from Michigan offered his amendment in a friendly tone, it guts the legislation in its entirety. I also want to offer that H.R. 1900…

Why were the plans these folks had good enough when you were the insurance commissioner in Kansas and when you were Kansas's governor, but those plans today aren't good enough for those hardworking Kansas families?

I think people are finding that it's not exactly what they are going to have worked so hard to find their way to as well.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kansas will be postponed. Amendment No. 100 Offered by Mr. Amash The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

I am happy to yield 3 minutes to the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Ruppersberger).

I rise as the designee of Mr. Nugent to offer the Nugent amendment. Parliamentary Inquiries

There are no human rights violations occurring at Guantanamo Bay.

There is no benefit. The cost is great. Let us get around to closing Guantanamo as soon as we can.

If the United States of America is incapable of successfully holding a dangerous inmate, then we are all in a world of hurt, Guantanamo or no Guantanamo.

It seems to me this is about consumers, providing them the independent energy at the source that they demand and that they want.

I think industry would respond to that in an appropriate way.

I think directing these agencies to be accountable and prioritize this permitting process needs to be done and needs to set these deadlines in a way that is meaningful.