I just spoke about two who served our Capitol and our country. Unhappily, they lost their lives. I now speak about one who has served our House of Representatives as an institution much more happily, because she has served so well and so…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. First of all, let me say two things: We are confronting, in my view, an unprecedented refusal of an administration to cooperate with the Congress in the exercise of its constitutional duties. I refer…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, on Tuesday, the House will meet at noon for morning- hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet at…

Again, I will tell my friend, as he has articulated, that bill has not been marked up in committee. There are two bills that were marked up in committee, and there is a possibility that we will consider those, but the other bill was not…

All of us who serve in this House are deeply indebted to our hardworking staff who enable us to serve our constituents and meet the rigorous demands of this job. In particular, all of us are grateful for our district directors, as we are…

My point to the gentleman is, yes, we think people ought to be paid a decent wage, and we know there are people in our workplace and in our community who have no bargaining power whatsoever. They don't have fancy college educations, and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I like the gentleman from Pennsylvania. He and I are friends. We disagree. I proudly voted against the tax bill which, I think, spiked the deficit, and we had a continuation of the extraordinary growth…

We could go another many minutes, but I am going to comment on one of the things the gentleman said about the person who wanted to go to work for a company but didn't want to join the union and right-to-work. The probability is the reason…

In response to my friend, Madam Speaker, I will tell him that the committee did, in fact, mark up bills this past Wednesday, yesterday, and those bills are being looked at to possibly move to the floor.

I appreciate the gentleman's comments. Unfortunately, of course, three of the component parts of the bill, to which the gentleman refers, we are strongly for. Unfortunately, they were held up in the Senate, as the gentleman may know. We…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I want to go back to this free market and the minimum wage. The gentleman, Madam Speaker, projects that: Let the free market operate. We do not allow employers to hire people under a…

I thank the chairman for yielding. I want to thank the gentleman from Georgia, who is my friend; and I want to respectfully say to him: This resolution is not about partisanship. It is about prejudice and the necessity to confront it. Mr…