I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we have had this discussion before. I am going to take a little bit of time to--because if you just listen to the Republican whip, you would think that America is bereft of production of…

We need to work together to get our house in order here.

we take the oxygen, but we do not pay for it. So, this is not charity. This is not foreign aid.

if we need to buy fertilizer, and we need to buy oil, and we need to buy coal, or we need to buy some other source, we expect to have that taken out of the land or the mine and given to us, and we, in turn, pay for it.

We have to take care of the forests we have, and there is hope.

We should be ashamed that we let this happen.

We cannot be exporting bad forest management policies to the rest of the world.

the problem is the resource that we get from that rainforest is oxygen, which allows us to live.

I apologize for keeping people waiting. I tend to speak more briefly than I usually speak on my 1 minute, but not because of the importance of this subject, not because of the deep feelings that I have that this is the right thing to do…

I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), the chairman of the committee, for yielding. I thank him for his leadership in bringing this bill to the floor quickly and effectively. I thank Mr. Wilson, who represents the minority, and…

If it hadn't been for him, we wouldn't have had the votes that day.

I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for yielding. And the Speaker pro tem, Ms. Jacobs, how proud Madeleine Albright would be of the two of you standing here, presiding here, and giving tribute to an extraordinary woman who must have…