Mr. Allison, it is my understanding and just my opinion that everybody at the table, everybody up here, we are all on the same team.

The work that this subcommittee does is extremely important.

The report released in September 2013 by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General regarding the Office of Inspection is both alarming and scathing.

We must ensure that every office within the Transportation Security Administration is operating both effectively and efficiently.

As you all know, the work that this subcommittee does is extremely important.

I would assume that you are there because you are very good.

In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the chairman of Homeland Security, Mr. McCaul, and the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Hudson, for the bipartisan manner in which they have handled not only this bill but all of…

I thank again the chairman of the full committee, Mr. McCaul; the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Hudson; and the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Thompson, for moving this legislation, and thank Mr. Thompson for introducing it…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. I yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Hudson), chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I have no further Members to speak on this bill and will close once the gentleman from Louisiana closes. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the chairman of the full Committee on Homeland Security, who is the chairman of the committee that I am ranking member on, and Mr. Miller for introducing this legislation and…

Thank you, Mr. Boustany. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to welcome the newest member of the Louisiana delegation, the Representative of Louisiana's Fifth Congressional District, to Washington, D.C., and to this distinguished body…

Thankfully, Congressman Grimm and Congresswoman Waters and 132 of their colleagues have introduced bipartisan legislation to do just that.

the importance of intellectual property and copyright in the country is critically important that we understand and that we get it right.

I would also like to acknowledge Congresswoman Waters for her leadership over many years, working to maintain access to affordable insurance through that gridlock.

We need Congress to call a time-out and to delay further implementation until FEMA can investigate and report back to Congress.

Yet again, a committee is meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss a shooting by a lone wolf. Another in a seemingly endless series of tragic shootings that have separated husbands from wives, parents from children, and friends from colleagues.

I just say that in the fact that I think that we should all have one purpose. That should be to try to make this a success.

I believe that Chairman King wanted to do it also. But it was--and we marked it up in a bipartisan way, and the Republican leadership gutted it.

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We keep talking about how bad Obamacare is.

See, and I am not defending the launch. The launch was deplorable. However, what real leadership does is acknowledge that it is deplorable, and fix it.

Let me start with congratulating both the chairman of the committee and the ranking member for including commonsense reforms in this WRRDA bill of this Congress; and with those commonsense reforms, I have just one to add. Right now, when…

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. __. CALCULATION OF BENEFITS AND COSTS FOR FLOOD DAMAGE…

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 Louisiana will be postponed. Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Gardner The Acting CHAIR. It is…

Also what we included in here, which I think is very important, and all of my colleagues should understand, is that when the Corps right now would evaluate a farm, they would just look at rebuilding the farmhouse, as opposed to the fact…