Steve Lynch: “I do not think it is $750,000 but we can talk about that.”

Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning on behalf of our friend and colleague Gerry Connolly, the gentleman from Virginia, with the hope of infusing this debate with his passion and wisdom on behalf of the Federal workers for whom there was no…

Look, LIHEAP, the reason we have to give people low income--excuse me, low-cost heating oil is because a lot of poor folk have oil-fired furnaces, right? That is why we are doing that.

Today I rise in strong support of more than 2.3 million dedicated civil servants that make up our Federal workforce, including nearly 30,000 Federal employees who work in my own congressional district. As a former union president of Iron…

Mr. Speaker, I also thank the majority for their courtesy in moving this bill expeditiously to the floor. The Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act was introduced by our dear friend, the late Ranking Member Gerry Connolly and by a bipartisan and…