John Tierney: “The Department of Defense, for all the good it does for us on our national security, is the one agency that cannot pass…”

2 months ago today, emergency unemployment benefits expired for over 1 million Americans, including 20,000 veterans, and yet this House still has not taken up legislation to provide these workers and their families necessary relief. That…

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…

The risk that you have is that the board may disagree with you, and then that is the risk that Mr. King takes.

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…