Corruption to Afghanistan is like wet is to water.

I want to thank you for focusing your attention on this.

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 reality is that corruption in Afghanistan is rampant and endemic.

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.''

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…