I thank the chairman and ranking member. Mr. Speaker, the chairman does not want to do this, with all due respect. The chairman has said publicly he does not want to do this. The chairman has said publicly he wants to do what historically…

I want to say to my friends, the reason the farm bill lost is because 62 of your people wouldn't support your Chairman Lucas, who pleaded for their support. That's why the farm bill lost. Secondly, it lost because you adopted three…

The point of order is that, in fact, consistent with your rulings today, that the gentleman's unanimous consent request was not any different, in substance or in length, than the unanimous consent requests that have been made on a number…

I thank my friend for yielding. First, let me say that this side of the aisle believes the passage of the farm bill is very, very important. It is important for our agricultural interests, for our farmers. We believe it's very important…

I am reluctant to move something that the Speaker has advised is not available to us. On the other hand, this is an issue, under my parliamentary inquiry, I would ask my friend, the chairman of the Rules Committee, if he might reconsider…

Parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized.

There was one declarative sentence. It had two commas in it. If we're going to parse this to that extent, I suggest to the Speaker and, frankly, to those who are advising the Speaker, that we're going down a road which is very dangerous…

In explaining your answer to the last parliamentary inquiry, you indicated that the problem was that he embellished by introducing himself as chairman of the Hispanic Caucus. The gentleman from New York who just spoke did not do so, but…

I thank the Speaker for his observation, and I would hope that the declaratory statement, similar to the one being made by Mr. Hastings, will clearly not, as it historically, in my view, has not done so, count against the time from the…

I make a point of order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his point of order.

Well, the good news is I don't have time to discuss that today, but perhaps at some time we will. Immigration. Obviously, the Senate, as the gentleman so well knows, has passed a major piece of legislation, passed it 68-32. That bill is, I…

He did do that. He explained to the American public, presumably who is watching this, Mr. Speaker, as to the framework from which he was speaking, that of representing a large group of Hispanic Americans, who have a large number of…

I thank the gentleman for that information, and I am glad to hear that we will go to conference as soon as possible so we can consider that important piece of legislation. As the gentleman knows, there are substantial differences between…

He stated two reasons he was opposed. Is it the Chair's ruling that only one reason will be allowed to be articulated by a Member who is in opposition to this bill? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman also prefaced his remarks.

I've been listening, as you've observed, to the judgments. What the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hinojosa) just did was to state one sentence, but it had an ``and,'' and he gave a second reason he was opposed. The first reason was that it…

Beginning this week, literally hundreds of thousands of civilian workers are being furloughed at defense installations in Maryland's Fifth District, across the State, and around the country. That means as of Monday, more than 650,000…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, in particular. I had the great honor of serving as vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus when Bill Gray was chairman of the Democratic Caucus, and I had the honor of succeeding Bill…

I am very pleased and honored to rise tonight to lead a Special Order which honors a great American, a great colleague, and a great legislator whose service to this country and to this institution have been unmatched. It is appropriate…

I know that I--before I get to my remarks--join all the House in saying thank you to your father and to the Greatest Generation, who not only fought the terrorists of their time but came home and built the greatest economy the world has…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader continues to want to blame the Democrats for his inability, and the Republicans' inability, to give a majority vote to their own bill. Maybe the American people, he thinks, can be…

I thank the gentleman. We clearly have a profound disagreement. When we were in the majority, we got no help on your side, Mr. Majority Leader--you remember that, zero, one, two, three, four--on programs that we felt very strongly about…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. Very frankly, I wasn't going to mention what happened on the floor today, but the gentleman has brought it up. The gentleman is correct; the committee passed out a bipartisan bill. A lot of Democrats…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. I would ask him a couple of questions about bills that are not on the announcement. The gentleman and I had a colloquy last week about student loans, that there's no action on those on the calendar…

I yield to the gentleman from Virginia, the majority leader, for the purpose of inquiring about the schedule for the week to come.

I'm disappointed. This ought to be a bipartisan bill. Mr. Peterson wants it to be a bipartisan bill and many of our people and, as a matter of fact, a majority of our people supported it in committee. I think the chairman wants it to be a…