We can do better. And that is what you are saying.

While the overall unemployment rate has dropped to 7.6 percent as of March, the same is not true for the African American unemployment rate which hovers at 13.5 percent.

When Congress passed the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, we explicitly authorized this.

That while wealth grew for African-Americans as they achieve life advances, that growth is at a considerably lower rate than it is for Whites experiencing the same accomplishments.

Although I appreciate SIGTARP's work, today's hearing would have been more helpful to the committee members if we could have heard from additional witnesses.

We have to make sure that the people that we represent are getting the best service possible. Their health, their safety, their welfare is number one.

If we can't do this, we might as well go home.

If Congress says we want you to do something a certain way, and the postmaster came back and said, no, I am doing it my way, the postmaster would catch hell.

I want jobs. I want jobs. I want to keep as many people working as possible.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. As we have no other speakers, Mr. Speaker, I just want to make it clear that I think yesterday's incident in Boston should remind us of how fragile our society is and that there are so many people…

Labor is the foundation on which our Postal Service is built, and we must honor the employees who have served this institution for decades.

It gives me great pleasure, Mr. Speaker, to yield 3 minutes to a gentleman who has worked very hard on this issue night and day, and it's been at the forefront of his efforts, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly).

Last year, however, the Postal Service reported losses of approximately $16 billion and it lost $1.3 billion in the most recent quarter.

I want to begin by thanking Chairman Issa for sponsoring this legislation and for making this a truly bipartisan effort. I am pleased to join the chairman in sponsoring this bill again this Congress. Also, I thank the other cosponsors of…

I oppose the cuts proposed to the Coast Guard's budget and the President's request.

Having no further requests for time, Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to vote in favor of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

It is ridiculous the downward spiral that we have in that area.

I want to first of all say to Ms. Norton, I want to thank you for your vigilance and thank you for staying on the case. No matter how history will be written about the District of Columbia, it must be said that you have, over and over…

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 14\1/2\ minutes remaining.

When you have cuts there are consequences.

As one who represents many Federal employees, with the Social Security Administration smack dab in the middle of my district, with many of my constituents getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning, catching the train over here from Howard…

May I ask how much time we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 6 minutes remaining.

How much time do I have left? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

This budget demonstrates as vividly as possible how senseless sequestration is.

I will fight like hell for somebody in rural South Dakota or wherever to be able to have access to transportation.