I thank the gentleman for that news. That is good news. Hopefully, we will be able to move on this next week because it is very important that we get this done as soon as possible because the crisis is posing immediate demands on our…

Again, I hope that we can do that as soon as possible. To the extent that we pass it before the August break, I think that will give confidence to the construction industry and confidence to municipalities in areas around the country…

I thank the gentleman for his information. He mentioned, in closing, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. As the gentleman knows, that bill did not come to the floor this week as we may have thought it would. We think this bill is a very…

Those were the good old days, I tell my friend Mr. Rahall, when I got an unlimited 1 minute. Mr. Speaker, there is some good news. The good news is this committee is chaired by someone who wants to invest in America, grow jobs, and expand…

I thank my dear friend from New York (Mr. Serrano) for yielding. I rise to speak on this bill, but not to offer an amendment. I don't offer an amendment because, to offer an amendment, I would have to identify an offset within the body of…

Again, I do understand that it is not coming up next week, but the reason I mention time is we have so few legislative days left, that we are going to need to plan to address some of these issues that, I think, are going to be very…

I yield to the gentleman. Mr. McCARTHY of California. As I noticed earlier in next week's schedule, I do not anticipate that coming up next week, but as we look toward the remainder of the July schedule, we will certainly notify the…

I thank the gentleman. As the gentleman knows, we only have 12 days remaining of legislative days that we will be in session before the August break and only 22 days before the end of the scheduled session prior to the election. The…

I appreciate you not only keeping us posted, but focusing on that to see whether we might do that. The gentleman has announced that TRIA is going to be under consideration. We believe this is a very important piece of legislation. However…

I thank the gentleman. We passed, as the gentleman knows, the tax credit for investment in equipment, or the depreciation allowance. We passed that today. That was a $287 billion cost. I would call to the gentleman's attention, as I have…

I thank the gentleman. That, of course, from our perspective--and I am sure his--is a very, very important piece of legislation. The highway bill that is coming to the floor, we know that that is critically important. It passed out of…

I thank the gentleman. I know he has this expectation also, but I hope that we would pass the appropriations bills individually in the manner that we have considered the previous bills on this floor. I note that the Labor-Health bill has…