Steve Lynch

the reality is that corruption in Afghanistan is rampant and endemic.

Corruption to Afghanistan is like wet is to water.

nothing in our experience thus far in Afghanistan would lead us to believe that direct funding...is in the best interest of the United States.

the deficiencies must be addressed quickly and correctly.

I want to thank my friend and colleague, Mr. Keating, for his leadership on this issue. I rise this morning, along with several of my colleagues, Mr. Rahall and Mr. Keating, whom you just heard, and also Chairman Rogers, to talk about the…

On rollcall vote 452, the vote for H.R. 4155, the Veteran Skills to Job Act, had I been able to vote, I would have voted ``aye.''

I would add that we have 31 Democrats that signed a letter to the Department of Justice and to the White House in the aftermath of Agent Terry's death to fully cooperate in this investigation. However, I rise in strong opposition to this…

In closing, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to oppose this contempt resolution.

I would like to refute the gentleman's last point, especially. I worked for 18 years as an ironworker. I've worked not only in the Massachusetts area, but New York, New Mexico, Louisiana. I worked in Indiana. I worked at a lot of the steel…

In my own experience before coming to Congress, I was actually an ironworker for about 18 years. I have actually run work on projects with PLAs. I've been a general foreman on a large, complex construction project such as the ones that are…

While I strongly support some of the programs supported by this funding bill, it contains a number proposals that I believe are detrimental. Firstly, H.R. 5854 includes language that will amount to an unwarranted extension of the pay…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in strong opposition to the Bartlett-Flake amendment. This amendment would indeed seek to prohibit Agencies from using a PLA. It is not as the gentleman from Arizona has just stated. Let me…

I believe I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 7, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $4,000,000)''. Page 43, line 15…

I think that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been very vocal in wanting us to take a firmer line.

history is fairly clear that safe zones don't work.

I am very much for don't arm.

I thank the gentleman from Michigan and the gentleman from Ohio for the opportunity to praise our departing House Parliamentarian, John Sullivan, as he prepares to leave the House of Representatives after 27 years of distinguished service…

I think we are losing about $1 billion a year, honestly, on the drug plans offered by the pharmacy benefit managers.

I am not convinced. I am not convinced.

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. The gentleman from Minnesota has a very good amendment here. Here is what we're talking about. This would strengthen title I by keeping in place the requirement that all public companies…

I sponsored legislation here in Congress several years ago to remove OxyContin from the market.

OxyContin is so powerful, it is so powerful that in a very limited period of time a person who is prescribed this becomes addicted.

When you allow a company to create a product that is so powerfully addictive that in a very short time they create customers for life, that is a very troubling situation.

But, let's face it, there are so many drug company lobbyists up here that that bill didn't have a prayer, because the pharmaceutical company lobbyists outnumber Members of Congress probably 7 to 1.

We are creating a national healthcare system that will allow all of these people to continue to financially get the support from these pill mills.