I have a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will state her parliamentary inquiry.

I have a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will state her inquiry.

I have a further parliamentary inquiry. Would it be appropriate to ask the majority to make an amendment to the bill to prohibit Members who receive taxpayer subsidies from benefiting financially and to prohibit them from voting on the…

I wonder if you could tell us whether it would be in order to allow the majority to amend the underlying bill that provides for agricultural subsidies to prohibit Members of Congress who receive financial benefits payments and taxpayer…

Is it in order to amend the underlying bill and the rule that currently provides for billions in subsidies to corporate farms while children and families go hungry, school lunch programs are decimated, and Meals on Wheels is taken from the…

Parliamentary inquiry, please. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry, please. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will state her parliamentary inquiry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is it not in order, as we have heard many times on this floor, for a Member of the House to simply not mention by name individual Members of the House, but to mention categories of Members? That happens all the…

I want to thank my colleague, Mr. Barrow, for leading this Special Order. I am just so honored really to be here to celebrate and honor somebody I call a friend, John Dingell. I notice, as we're talking here today and as so many have…

Reclaiming my time, I know that the gentlewoman from North Carolina and the other side would prefer to yield and move on with a bill that violates the Budget Control Act, violates the Constitution, and violates the relationship between a…

I raise a point of order against H. Res. 266 because the resolution violates section 426(a) of the Congressional Budget Act. The resolution contains a waiver of all points of order against consideration of the bill, H.R. 1797, which…

When the majority began this Congress, it began with the idea, in their language, that they would adhere to fiscal responsibility and to constitutionality--in fact, we read the Constitution on the floor of this body--and that they had…

It's very clear to me that the underlying bill, in fact, does violate the Congressional Budget Act. It imposes an unfunded mandate on local police departments for the work that they do. Now, it's this crowd on the other side of the aisle…

I guess I just have a few questions that I will put out there on the table. The American people want us to work to address the Nation's most urgent priorities, like creating jobs and strengthening the economy. I wonder if the Speaker at…

Well, reclaiming my time, under the rule, it's the case that the bill I believe that we'll vote on today for final passage has not followed regular order, and it has been rewritten after its adoption in the Judiciary Committee. The…

Reclaiming my time, I'd like to yield 15 seconds to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).

Yesterday, I joined with many of my colleagues here on the floor to urge the Congress and the Rules Committee to take seriously the disturbingly high incidences of sexual assault in the military and to act quickly and responsively to…

Sexual assault in the military continues to be a serious problem. Given both the headlines and the reality, this is an understatement. It impacts thousands of servicemen and -women each year. And while Congress has investigated and…

Our hope is to ensure that zero tolerance for sexual assault in the military is the norm. I want to say that some have pointed to a culture issue within the military that contributes to the problem. You know what, that might be true; but…

Thank you, Connie. Now, Pete wrote this talk, and so I want to ad lib a little bit and say that, well, first of all, because it mentions my book, and I didn't put that in there. But I had the opportunity very recently to give a speech at…

Today I rise in opposition to H.R. 1406, the deceptively-named, Working Families Flexibility Act--or, as I call it, The Working Families to Death Act. This bill--which is really an old, recycled idea from 1997--would allow employers to…

This really is an insidious bill. I've been listening to the debate on the floor, Mr. Speaker, and I have to tell you there are some things I heard that I think need correcting. First of all, median hourly wages in this country are $12.80…

Like many Americans, I began my morning this morning with a check of the local weather forecast. It actually helps me answer questions, important questions, such as what should I wear, do I need an umbrella, or is a storm approaching…

I had planned to come to the floor this evening, as we do every Monday, to talk about the importance of climate change and the importance of this country addressing an issue that is so critical in front of us. But it seems tonight that…

In this Chamber, we've heard over the last several days numerous speakers who have spoken quite eloquently about the impact of sequestration on their communities and their constituents across this country; and I daresay there are many…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from New York. Thank you so much for your leadership. You know both as a woman and a woman legislator what this impact is going to be to your communities in New York, and I know what they will be to mine in…