John Tierney: “Congress spends the dime. We ought to be deciding what money is going out to these departments.”

Understand, I hear horror stories--you know, my constituents calling me--that would stand your hair on end about the way they are being treated by folks like that who end up putting them in a worse situation than they would otherwise be if…

I just know that we have been making a comparison here today that if we could change the committee's function off of trying to usurp a decision by the board that hasn't been made yet, we could talk about raising the minimum wage, which in…

This is the final amendment to the bill. It won't kill the bill, and it will not send it back to committee. If this amendment is adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, there are 5 legislative…

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland, Steny Hoyer, our Democratic whip.