Steve Scalise

I offer my thanks and gratitude to the 9/11 Commission Chaired by New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean and Vice Chair Former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton for their work in investigating the events of September 11, 2001 and making…

I can't agree more with all of you who say that we can't take our eye off the ball, as far as overseas, as far as the Islamist threat, the terror threat.

I appreciate the gentleman's comments. I respect our ability to have these disagreements but, again, to disagree in a civil way where we can at least talk about the policy and keep it focused that way and, hopefully, one day address those…

If I could interject, we share that. That is not an us versus them issue. We agree with those. Obviously, there are some that we disagree with. The ones that the gentleman mentioned are things that we agree with. Madam Speaker, I yield to…

Let's be crystal clear about what happened. The chairman of the Armed Services Committee made this a political bill by putting poison pills in the bill that undermined our national security. That is not a partisan issue. And so if you go…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my friend, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader of the House.

I am equally hopeful we can get that resolved, and I appreciate the gentleman's work on that. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our distinguished majority leader.

I will be happy to give the gentleman a review of the restaurant. I am sure it will be really good. I wish the gentleman well, and I wish all fathers a happy Father's Day this weekend. I look forward to seeing the gentleman back in a few…

Hopefully, we can continue that work through the weekend and get that done next week. I know there is other work the House is getting ready to take up on the appropriations bills. On one final note, as we approach Father's Day on Sunday, I…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the House majority leader.

He could have filed charges, and he filed absolutely no charges. There were no charges filed, because there was nothing wrong that was found.

The gentleman will yield, but after I first go through this because these are important points to make because anybody that wants to use the term ``coverup'' ought to be very cognizant of what they are talking about when we talk about that…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the majority leader.

If you look at STELAR in a silo, regardless of where you are on expiring or being renewed, do you think the current laws...needs to be updated?

Does anybody want to come up to this table and suggest that when they wrote the law in 1992, they took into account how the world works today?

I mean, it absolutely is an opportunity for us to look at the video marketplace.

There is no reason for Congress to create artificial crises every few years.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess I will follow-up where my colleague and dear friend, Ms. Eshoo, left off, and you are right, the signal is available for free and you are seeing more people choose that option.

For years, public knowledge has believed that this is an instance where a predominantly deregulatory approach is needed and has a chance of bipartisan support.

I applaud Congresswoman Eshoo, and I know she spoke a few minutes ago.

We need to reform the entire 1992 Cable Act. It is long past time for this Congress to do it.

I actually share the expressions of some of the panelists who talk about why they think STELAR should expire.

Clearly, the Senate looked at that as well and worked through that. They actually made some changes to the bill which we conformed into this. The discharge petition has a rule that will actually conform it to the Senate to address those…

We will continue to discuss it. I appreciate that. Clearly, as we have an interest in not just expressing our words, like on many other important issues, we have to back that up with laws, legislation that gives teeth to the words and…