Normally at this time the majority leader and I do a colloquy. We do a colloquy to discuss the schedule for the week to come. My suspicion is they don't know what the schedule is for the week to come because they were going to offer two…

I hear the words of the majority leader. He and his party, without exception, opposed President Obama's programs. Without exception. We became the majority in 2007, and we worked with President Bush on a number of things, including a very…

I thank the gentleman. I would only say, I appreciate his comments. But, Mr. Speaker, I have heard them a long time, many, many times: We are going to solve this issue. Mr. Ryan came to the floor and said: We are going to solve this issue…

I thank my friend for the information he has given us, and I certainly thank him for his comments at the close of his initial statement on the colloquy. We are all ecstatic, as I am sure the gentleman can understand, that after 44…

I thank the gentleman for his observation. He talks about work. We are requiring those to work to work in order to get government benefits. What is controversial about that? Democrats support work. We want to see people working. We oppose…

The gentleman is ecstatic about recent statistics. I think that he has, of course, warrant to be. Let me read to the gentleman statistics over a 68-year period where Democrats have had the Presidency and Republicans have had the Presidency…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the majority leader. (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to revise and extend…

It is warm in here. Mr. Speaker, there is joy in the Washington Capital Region today. When I get up in the morning every day and I read the front page of the Washington Post, I say: Oh, my goodness. Today, I read the front page of the…

First, let me say I heard the gentleman from Georgia's argument that this money wasn't needed. I heard that argument a month ago; Ebola money was not needed. Guess what? Ebola money was needed. I rise in opposition to this rescission bill…

As result, the MRA today has shrunk to 85 percent of what it was 8 years ago. Meanwhile, the population of the United States has grown by an estimated 19 million people. Less service for our people. That is why I wrote the Appropriations…

I thank the ranking member, Mrs. Lowey, for yielding. I rise twice today in sadness. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, albeit on leave, I have great respect for this committee, but I rise to express my concern with this minibus…

Because of that and because I would like to see a truly bipartisan bill supported overwhelmingly on both sides of the aisle to make sure that our community banks are not impacted in a way that was never intended nor should it be intended…

I thank Ms. Titus, and I thank the chairman for bringing the bill to the floor. I rise in strong support. Mr. Speaker, it is with great honor every year that I have the opportunity to introduce this resolution and to support it on the…

I am constrained to say that the gentlewoman mentioned the progrowth administration. We had some 98 months of growth following the worst recession she and I have experienced in our lifetimes under the policies of the Bush administration…

A moment of silence is not enough. I did not respond to the invitation of the gentleman from Texas to come and stand here. I lost a young woman at Great Mills High School in my district. I visited with her parents, I went to her funeral…

Am I not correct that you called for the yeas and nays and that you interrupted the vote while it was in progress? From a parliamentary perspective, is that the power of the Speaker to interrupt a rollcall vote for the purposes of…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 183, noes 163, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 80, as follows: [Roll No. 206] AYES--183 Abraham Allen Amodei Babin…

1 year ago, my community was shaken by the murder of Second Lieutenant Richard ``Richie'' Collins III, a young African American stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the campus of the University of Maryland. He was a student at Bowie…

I would ask the majority leader--he wants to do these rescissions. Congress usually does these. They do them in the appropriations process, and that is fine. Presidents have also done that. My question to him was: If you want to see…

The gentleman has not answered either one of my questions, A, whether there was a single red cent available in the Defense Department for rescission, because that money has been laying there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years. Is there a…

I presume the answer is the gentleman did not know that there were 400,000 more jobs created in 2016 than were created in 2017. I didn't get the answer to that question, Mr. Speaker. Let me ask, however, if the gentleman is convinced that…

Of course the answer to that question is yes. Mr. Speaker, as I have explained to the majority leader, the Congress has rescinded billions of dollars through the years, and I have voted for rescissions that have been sent down by…

I did yield to the gentleman about the single red cent, because all of this deals on the nondefense side of the budget, which is, by the way, the smallest part of the budget. The gentleman keeps saying we need to make sure we do these…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. He mentioned a number of facts. Economically, I think all of us can be happy that unemployment is down. The gentleman then mentioned that there are less unemployment requests being made. Is the…

Is the majority leader aware of the fact, when he says that the rescission was cut or the CHIP was cut, is the gentleman aware of where that money went when it was cut, or--I would say it in a different way--reprogrammed to other items in…