I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are…

First of all, I want to thank the chairman, the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey, and also Ms. Kaptur from Ohio, the ranking member, for the great work they've done. In spite of the fact that many Members are coming up with refining…

We lurch from scandal to scandal and it is the same when the Republicans are in the majority versus the Democrats.

I would just like to raise an issue here with the amount of money in this bill that we are appropriating for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction account. I have heard several of my colleagues here speak earlier on individual…

I am however concerned that the subcommittee's recommendation underfunds the SEC, underfunds the present request by $300 million.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Let me just make one final point on this. What this bill will do now is to give the Cayman Islands or London or some other jurisdiction the ability to write derivatives rules that cover U.S. affiliates…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I rise today in strong opposition to the bill before this House today, H.R. 1256, the Swaps Jurisdiction Certainty Act. It should be called the Wall Street Bailout Certainty Act because that's the…

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 19, line 1, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $15,676,000)''. Page 3, line 13, after the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, my amendment increases surface transportation security funding by about $15.6 million, bringing it to the enacted FY 2013 level of $124.3 million. This would be offset by a reduction…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman from Georgia and the gentlelady from New York who spoke previously on this, and I rise in strong opposition to the gentleman from…

I want to thank OPM for making some progress in elimination of retirement claims backlog. They've made it a top priority.

I think it's important to evaluate the progress made by the Office of Personnel Management in addressing the backlog of Federal retirement claims since we last had a hearing on this issue in November of 2011.