The Republican budget released earlier this week will move us in the wrong direction. It promises us growth through austerity, cutting $943 billion in discretionary spending, but history has proven that it just won't work. Time and again…

The Buffalo River is identified by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative as one of 43 areas of concern in the Great Lakes watershed. In 2011, a coalition of corporate and community partners teamed up with State and local governments to…

I thank the gentleman from California. I think the infrastructure piece, as has been mentioned here previously, is a vehicle for growth. It is refreshing to see that this discussion tonight between three Members is about how to grow the…

It cuts infrastructure spending by $5.7 trillion over 10 years. {time} 1930 It doesn't do anything to the defense spending. So while we, the advocates of increased infrastructure spending, want to nation-build here at home, in America, the…

Can I just make another point before you turn it over to the distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan)? A lot of people here, in the majority, do a lot of complaining about spending. The irony is, they did all the spending. At the end…

According to Transportation for America, there are 69,000 structurally deficient bridges in this Nation. In my State of New York there are over 2,000 bridges that are structurally deficient. In western New York there are 99 bridges that…

I was just going to mention where Tim was talking about infrastructure, the New America Foundation has a study out called, ``The Way Forward.'' And they propose spending $1.2 trillion on infrastructure, primarily because of the reasons…

This weekend I joined a trip led by Congressman John Lewis to some of the landmark sites of the civil rights struggle, culminating in a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 48th anniversary of that historic march. The trip…

The effect of sequestration on our borders will be felt especially hard in my western New York community, home to four crossings on the northern border. According to the Department of Homeland Security, if sequestration occurs, Customs and…

Sequestration will have serious consequences for the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, which is tremendously important to the economy of western New York. If Congress does not repeal the sequester, the Air Force will have to delay…

Last night, President Obama argued that rebuilding American infrastructure is crucial to job creation, and with 70,000 structurally deficient bridges, it is long overdue. Today, the United States Chamber of Commerce is holding a summit on…

Today we will consider a House Republican message bill that makes a point about spending and budget deficits. The problem is all those who support this bill about spending did all the spending: two tax cuts that gave us the worst period of…

3 years ago this Thursday, western New York teenager Amanda Hansen tragically passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of a defective boiler at a friend's home where she was spending the night. In response to this tragedy…

The people in this Chamber who do all the complaining about spending, the record clearly shows, voted for all the spending that they complain about: two wars that took $1 trillion out of the American economy, unfunded tax cuts that created…

At midnight tonight, the Budget Control Act of 2011 and sequestration will trigger spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over 10 years, including $109 billion in 2013. We'll have 8.2 percent, or $54 billion, in domestic spending cuts funding to…

The Great Lakes are our Nation's greatest natural resource. They are the source of 95 percent of our surface freshwater and are directly connected to 1.5 million jobs. Though efforts to protect and restore the Great Lakes have made great…

This week, conferees met to reach an agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act. As we consider a final agreement, I rise in support of language in the conference report which prevents the movement and retirement of C-130…

I thank the gentlemen from California and from Pennsylvania for their leadership on these issues--jobs and protecting Medicare long into the future. As we know, there's a debate going on here about the fiscal cliff. I think the American…

Thank you. My colleague from New York is obviously very familiar with all of the issues that we're confronted with, but we also recognize that our Governor had the presence of mind in putting the package together for Federal relief for…

I thank the gentleman. At the outset, my colleague from California, a great leader on this issue, had said that it was 12 years ago when we had a budgetary surplus of $258 billion. How was that created? It was created by having created 22…

There are many lessons to be learned in the wake of the hurricane that devastated parts of New York and New Jersey, one of which is the importance of electronic medical records and health information technology. While many hospitals and…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We hear a lot of the rhetoric on debt and deficit, and I think it requires a recent review of history. Less than 12 years ago, the United States had a $258 billion budgetary surplus, meaning that we were taking in…

Our national policy for transportation and budgetary commitment is a disgrace and an embarrassment. Our roads and bridges are a mess. Transportation for America says that we have 69,000 structurally deficit bridges in this Nation. We have…

History has shown that our Nation experiences robust economic growth when we invest in America and in Americans, in education, in scientific research, in roads and bridges. In order to experience this growth, we cannot allow sequestration…

I want to thank my colleague from California for his leadership on the infrastructure issue. I think the problem that we see here in Washington is that the discussion is focused on the wrong thing. When you have a recession--an economic…