This change has highlighted the fact that data collection programs in certain regions of the country have been neglected.

I want to be certain that the administration and Pentagon leadership do not deny our men and women in uniform one of the very freedoms they are fighting to protect. On Monday, I led on a letter sent to Defense Secretary Hagel demanding…

To me, that is not a very good investment. On the other hand, since 1945, our strategy of peace through strength with nuclear deterrence, nuclear assurance, to me has been the best investment that we have ever had.

I think makes us a little worried. And I have spoken to experts in SCIFs offline about this, and they agree that anything that we do to take this from a three-legged stool to a two or a one really solves the calculations and the strategy…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is, indeed, a pleasure to be here tonight to talk about a very, very important subject, and that is the case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Before I do, I do want to mention a couple of things about the previous Special…

I just want to put an asterisk to your comment about employment. We met with Mort Zuckerman, economist and editor of U.S. News & World Report. He says that much of the ``growth'' in jobs reports that you see is actually people reentering…

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee. Of course, all of us here today talking are physicians of different specialties. Most of us were actually here during the ObamaCare debate. We actually began that in 2009. It actually went in to law…

Your experience is exactly the same as mine when it comes to blood disorders, blood cancers, solid tumors in children. That used to be a death warrant when you and I were in medical school. Today, the vast majority of those children…

I just want to expand a moment on what you were talking about small business is critical. I'm a small business owner myself, apart from my medical practice. We employ around 500 employees. Many of them are entry level. Businesses and…

The American people have just finished the annual aggravation of tax preparation. Every year, individuals and businesses spend more than 6 billion hours and about $168 billion just to meet the filing requirements of the IRS. Among those…

I certainly want to thank my good friend from New Jersey for all the great work that you've done on this and the work you continue to do. I have to say, Mr. Speaker, that just hearing about this trial--and quite frankly, I haven't heard…

The Obama administration's assault on religious freedom must stop. The so-called HHS mandate established under ObamaCare forces individuals, charities, and businesses to buy health insurance that includes coverage for drugs which may…

Without high-quality fishery science, we cannot be confident that the Nation is attaining optimum yield from its fisheries.

It seems to me that we are starving this aspect, the science part of this, the precise part, creating overly conservative estimates.

I want to thank the gentleman from Maryland for agreeing with what is really common sense. We all, I think, want to squeeze out waste in government and certainly take away the duplication that's behind much of it. With that, I yield back…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Section 3(b)(3) is amended by inserting after ``result'' the following: ``(including an evaluation of…

I thank the gentleman, my good friend from New Jersey, for all the great work that you've done in this area and many others, protecting children; and we're all grateful to you for doing that. Mr. Speaker, 40 years ago, when the Supreme…

I have an amendment at the desk. I also have a unanimous consent for a technical correction of that amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 28, line 6, after the…

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. 10 Offered by Mr. Benishek The Acting CHAIR. It…

The gentlelady is correct: after we got more information on this, the nearly $10 million is actually only $2 million when it comes to the Outer Island. However, the gentlelady is incorrect: the university informed us that the vast amount…

I would again disagree with the gentlelady. I would have to say that, unfortunately, it is our grandchildren who are being held hostage. Now they have tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars each in future debt from the…

My amendment to the Frelinghuysen amendment will strike $9.8 million of spending on buildings and seawalls on uninhabited islands within the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge. The Stewart McKinney refuge is a complex of 10…

Yes. I ask unanimous consent to correct a misspelled word from ``steward,'' ending in ``d'' to ``Stewart,'' ending in ``t.'' The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the modification. The Clerk read as follows: Technical Correction to the…

For 2 years, President Obama and Democrats have clamored for a so-called ``balanced approach'' to fix the budget deficit by raising taxes in exchange for entitlement reform. We must reform entitlements. We know that, without reform…

I wish I had a dollar for every bill that we have testimony in which somebody claims that global warming is the reason why we should move forward on the legislation.