I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Jim Wright would have been proud of Marc Veasey. He would have said Marc Veasey is in the Jim Wright tradition. I am going to speak a bit about that. Mr. Speaker, I rise to talk about a Mr…

I appreciate the majority leader's clarification. My Members will not necessarily appreciate it, but I understand it. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, the problem with the suggestion the majority leader makes is the Export-Import Bank will be out of business. If that happens, Speaker Boehner has said it is going to adversely affect jobs in America. It…

I understand that that is the gentleman's desire. I know he is opposed to the Ex-Im Bank reauthorization. As you know, we passed it in a bipartisan fashion when the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cantor) was the majority leader, and the…

I hope we do that. In the short term, however, we have done another item which we have not reauthorized, and that is the Export-Import Bank. Senator McConnell believes that that has the votes in the Senate, and he believes that the highway…

I appreciate the fact that we might be bringing something to the floor so that we can express the opinion of this House. As the house and senate in South Carolina expressed its opinion, it surely is appropriate for this House of…

I thank the gentleman. The majority leader, Mr. Speaker, regularly brings up that sequester started in the White House. He knows I very severely disagree with that. And he voted for a Cut, Cap, and Balance Act which had in that bill--which…

I thank the gentleman for his comment, particularly in terms of the willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion. As the majority leader knows, there is, on his side of the aisle and on our side of the aisle, a great concern that the 302…

I thank the gentleman for his information with respect to the legislation for next week. As the gentleman knows, we have now passed six appropriation bills. Last week, consideration of the Interior bill was postponed. The gentleman and Mr…

The last item on there is infrastructure. When you build infrastructure in America, you don't create jobs any place other than America. We are hopefully going to have a highway bill; and we need a permanent highway bill, a long-term…

I thank you very much, Mr. Garamendi. You do such an extraordinary job for California--and have for a long period of time-- but you are doing an extraordinary job here in Washington on behalf of America, on behalf of America's workers, on…

Last week I was profoundly disappointed to learn just how large the recent data breach was in which personal information was accessed in the files of the Office of Personnel Management. That breach and the one before it were unacceptable…