John W. Olver

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to see the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 2013 considered on the House floor this year. And I…

I'm not suggesting any such thing. I am suggesting that this is a legislative position, that this should be done, that it has been agreed to be done. I now have the number of riders. We had 217 million riders in the WMATA system in 2011…

I think what we have is a rather classical kind of situation. The gentleman from California, I suspect, has no Essential Air Service site in his district, but there are 100 communities, more than 100 communities around the country, some of…

Woman, the amendment that is offered here in this instance is really quite a curious one, it seems to me. The gentleman offering the amendment is from New Jersey, the largest overall metropolitan system, with its commuter rails, with its…

I now yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee), who is a member of the Appropriations Committee.

I find it a little bit difficult here where we're taking from one place and putting it into another place. I don't dispute what the chairman has said about not being certain that the money will be used for the right purpose at that point…

I am inclined to support the amendment that the gentlewoman from California has proposed, recognizing that the request on the part of the administration was for $55 million, and that it's an interesting juxtaposition, because the HUD…

Woman, I understand that since I claimed the time in opposition, I retain, then, the right to strike the last word, so I have struck the last word. Thank you very much. Just to continue this one, New York, at the present time, is…

What we are talking about here is pipeline safety inspectors. The increase in pipeline safety inspectors, and the agency is Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, that organization has, over the last few years, had an…

Yes. Reclaiming my time, it has been the position of our subcommittee looking at, realizing that the authorization in the PRIIA Act and the commitments that had been made to this metropolitan area, which many of us and many of our staff…

I can think of nothing that would be more effective at slowing economic growth and keeping unemployment high. Mr. Speaker, there is a better option. Bring it to the floor and let us vote on the Senate's multiyear bipartisan bill that was…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, America's whole economy depends upon the efficient movement of people and goods. A modern, well-maintained transportation network is absolutely necessary for our economy to grow and the…

I thank the gentleman from Missouri for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support H.R. 2767, a bill that would designate the United States Post Office at 8 West Silver Street in Westfield, Massachusetts, as the William T…

I thank the ranking member for yielding time. I rise in support of this conference report. As ranking member on the Transportation and Housing Subcommittee, I first would like to thank Chairman Tom Latham for working openly with me…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the motion to instruct conferees. This motion would instruct the conferees to provide adequate funding to the Federal Highway Administration's Emergency Relief…

Today we face an unnecessary crisis. The debt limit has never before been held hostage by any political party, because it is in every American's best interest to protect the credit of the United States; but now ideologues in Congress have…

I ask unanimous consent to be given 1 additional minute. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Massachusetts?

Title V of the Energy and Water bill that is before us today robs Peter to pay Paul. Title V takes funds which were appropriated 2\1/2\ years ago for transportation purposes and moves part of those funds to the Corps of Engineers in…

Secondly, in the high-speed corridors that are based on Chicago as their hub, to go to Detroit, to go to St. Louis, to go to Indianapolis, to go to Milwaukee, for equipment that will allow those high-speed corridors to function better…

I am committed to working with the Department to maintain the appropriate balance between providing the flexibility needed... and the structure necessary to allow appropriate congressional oversight.

I think most everybody in the room... would agree that HUD has been a neglected Department for many years

For most families in this country, the home is their largest investment.

Well, now you have really opened Pandora's box, but I am not going to take the bait on this one, except to say that there is desperate need on Indian reservations.

The problem is USDA simply doesn't understand urban America.

While the recession technically ended over a year and a half ago, hundreds of thousands of families continue to struggle.