Reclaiming my time, is the gentleman saying that, when we had discussions in your office and you wanted to eliminate the option to sponsor mothers and fathers by their children, was not that not part of the offer that you discussed in your…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time, and I rise today not so much to oppose this legislation, as to deride it as a sham, as a fraud, as a pretense of fiscal responsibility. If you want to balance the budget, just do it. I have…

Since President Trump took office, this year, fiscal year 2018, $980 billion in deficits; next year, $1 trillion. Every year thereafter, during the Trump administration, another $1 trillion of debt. It will total some $14 trillion. After…

I thank the Speaker, and I thank Mrs. Lowey. Mr. Speaker, we brought this country from the brink of depression to a growing, robust economy with a stock market that has almost tripled by passing the National Recovery and Reinvestment Act…

Mr. McGovern hasn't read the bill. I have not read the bill. It was 8 o'clock last night. The only person that could read this bill is the supercomputers. None of us even claim to be supercomputers. This rule ought to go down. Very…

When the Speaker became the Speaker, he said: ``We will advance major legislation one issue at a time.'' How can any self-respecting Member of this House, how can any self- respecting Republican who made that representation to my Tea Party…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. I have been here long enough to see my Republican colleagues bring to the floor these bills and plop them down heavily on the table. I have been here long enough to have citizens…

Not a single person has read this bill. It was filed at 8 o'clock last night. If we had put this on the floor, not a single one of those on the other side of the aisle would have voted for it. Not one. They have demagogued for years about…

I am not going to read the remarks in their entirety, but I do want to highlight one thing Matt had to say, which I thought was so profound. He concluded his remarks by saying: `` . . . their right to own an assault rifle does not outweigh…

I am saddened and angered that the high school in my district, Great Mills High School, in St. Mary's County, was the site of the most recent school shooting, of which there have been 17 just since the beginning of this year. Two students…

The leader spoke in a very calm and reasoned way. I will do the same. As an aside, I will tell you the CHIP bill passed on November 3, over a month after its authorization expired. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader talks about coming to…

Reclaiming my time. With all due respect, Mr. Speaker, I indicated to the leader what I said, and I knew what I said, and I know what the facts are. The Republicans could not pass that bill on their own. There were over 60 Republicans who…