I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I was not going to speak. I was constrained to speak, to come to the floor, when we had this chart about 2 million employees. But only adversely affecting just a small sliver. The premise…

If the gentleman will yield, I say respectfully to my friend, we think the President sent down a piece of legislation similar to yours, correct. But we both worked together; you're right.

I used to be the majority leader, and the thing that I hated losing most was my magic 1 minute, because as the gentleman will recall, it was an unlimited 1 minute.

I predicted then that if you took every Democrat out of the House and every Democrat out of the Senate, that that budget could not be implemented through the appropriations process and through the Ways and Means process, and I was right…

I say this because, Mr. Speaker, the American people need to know what's happening. They pulled the Transportation-Housing bill. I wasn't for that bill as it came out of committee, nor were any Democrats that voted on it in committee, but…

The gentleman is correct. Both sides have done it. But you will recall, your side criticized us very substantially and said you would not do it. That I think is the difference. But both sides, you're absolutely correct, have brought rules…

I thank the ranking member of the Rules Committee, my friend, Ms. Slaughter, for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I want to say that I have a great deal of respect for the gentleman from Oklahoma. But I say that this House is not working. And the…

I would suggest we're the employer, we're the board of directors. And I think, frankly, in the IRS case, we haven't proved any wrong yet. There's been a lot of assertions but not much proof. We shouldn't go head-over-heels denigrating…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his thoughtfulness. Hopefully, negotiations will prove successful and such pressure can be either moderated or removed. President-elect Rouhani campaigned on a promise to ease the burden…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of this legislation, but I also thank my friend Keith Ellison for his perspective on this, and I want to speak to that as well. I want to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel…

I thank the gentleman. Her lawyer, or the lawyers, because there was a criminal investigation underway, did what lawyers do in an abundance of caution. That, by the way, is provided for in the Constitution of the United States--I know the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I'm going to only speak once, even though there's seven bills. Time is short. We have just a few days left in the legislature until we shut down the government if we don't act. We passed…

I want to thank Dr. Burgess and Mr. Butterfield for their leadership on this bill, but I certainly want to thank my friend, Dr. Phil Roe, who has been a delight to work with. It has taken us a little bit of time, but we stayed after it. We…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding. He and I spent literally a decade working together, shoulder to shoulder, in a bipartisan way because this is America's subway. This is a subway that is used by almost all of the visitors…

Let me start with the fact that I choose to believe that Mr. Latham does not like this bill. Mr. Latham's not listening to me. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to say that I start my debate, that I choose to believe that you do not like this bill. I…

I appreciate the gentleman's recitation of history. Let me remind him, the first year I was majority leader, all 12 appropriations bills passed the House prior to the August break--all 12. That also happened the third year. It didn't…

I thank the gentleman. I didn't talk about intentions. I talked about fact. I talked about fact. Pete Sessions, chairman of the Rules Committee, Republican, said this when we passed the farm bill: ``I believe that this is an honest attempt…

I thank the gentleman for that response, which I took as a no, which didn't indicate that we could expect to see bipartisan work on making sure that the government pays its bills that have already been incurred. No, it was a lot of…

I appreciate the majority leader's comment. Can he tell me whether there might be a possibility of having a clean debt limit extension after September? Because I tell the gentleman again, I want to repeat so that he knows, his party knows…

I want to clarify what he said no on was that a clean debt limit extension was not coming to the floor.

I have heard that answer, I think, more than the President has given the speeches that Mr. Cantor refers to. This party has always been, is now, and will be focused on the working people to which the majority leader refers. {time} 1215 The…

I thank the gentleman for his comment. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman's premise is absolutely incorrect, and the American people ought to know that. The Senate hasn't voted to go to conference because the Republican Members of the United…

I thank the gentleman for his information. I don't see on the schedule, Mr. Speaker, that we are going to a budget conference. At least there's no notice from the majority leader of that fact. Mr. Speaker, as you know, we are facing a…

As Speaker Boehner has said, later today Members and staff from both parties will come together to remember the tragic shooting that occurred 15 years ago in this Capitol when a lone gunman tried to enter the building through what we now…

I've come to this floor nearly every week since the sequester took effect in March to highlight its dangerous consequences to our national security, its harmful impact on our economy, and the pain it is causing the most vulnerable people…