Hal Rogers

I want to thank you at the outset here by saying that the FEMA personnel were there immediately and helping coordinate efforts all along even before a request from the governor or a declaration.

I wanted to be here to plead for a firm commitment from the Administrator to help my district and my State given our most recent and terrifying few days last weekend.

Competing with one hand tied behind their back by regulations here at home and a tax rate that is not conducive combined with the subsidization by the Chinese government of their industries is an unfair, unwinnable competition.

On Monday, as you know, I requested the President to approve a request by our governor for a federal emergency declaration.

Unemployment continues at over 8 plus percent.

The Congress has sent a very strong message: that we must have balance in the expansion of conventional fuels--coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear--to provide energy today, with investment into renewable energies to power our future.

While the goals of some regulations may be well intentioned, they seem to be implemented without regard to the burden they are placing on rural communities and small towns.

They want jobs, and they want investment, and they want Washington to simply get out of the way of creating those jobs.

It is no wonder small businesses, the lifeblood and job creators in rural areas, are petrified and they are frozen in place.

The real problem today lies with exploding and unsustainable mandatory and entitlement spending, which the Budget Committee should be addressing forthwith. Mandatory spending comprises two-thirds of the Federal budget. We only deal with a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this bill. In article I, section 9, clause 7, the U.S. Constitution bestows upon Congress what we now call the ``power of the purse''--that the representatives of…

The sword of Damocles is over our heads.

How can we be sure that once we depart and turn over the security of the nation to that kind of an organization, how do we know they are not going to turn on us or turn on their own country?

the fiscal crisis here at home is perhaps the biggest threat to our national security.

we will be taking an unprecedented look at how the world has shifted and how we must shift with it.

I send to the desk a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 95) making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes, and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the title of the joint…

I send to the desk a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 94) making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes, and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the title of the joint…

I advise the gentleman from Washington that I have no further requests for time.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This continuing resolution ensures that government operations will continue to be funded through December 23. The resolution is a simple date extension that gives Congress time to prepare the…

I thank the chairman for yielding. And I want to thank the members of the Rules Committee. Chairman Dreier and all of the members of that committee are required to work at all hours of the day and night. In fact, we were testifying before…

We're here because this bill is the product of our committee, but most importantly, it's a product of our subcommittees, Republicans and Democrats. They're the ones who put this bill together. Collectively all of those nine subcommittees…

I've heard a rumor around here that today is sort of a special day for the gentleman. Is it true that a few years ago you were born on this date?

I thank the gentleman for his words. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young).

I thank the gentleman for those comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the chairman of the Interior Subcommittee, the gentleman from Idaho (Mr. Simpson).

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This continuing resolution extends funding for government operations by 1 day to give the other body an extra day to consider and pass the consolidated appropriations bill.