Mr. Speaker, it is week five for the new Congress--and it happens to be Groundhog Day--and my Republican colleagues, unfortunately, I think, are still stuck in the shadow of their extreme agenda. Instead of taking up a jobs bill or an…

Madam Speaker, it is now week 4 in the new Republican Congress. There is still no jobs bill anywhere in sight. Instead of taking up an infrastructure bill or a minimum wage bill to give working families bigger paychecks, we are seeing a…

It is a really important point. And I hope that as we move forward on whatever process we engage in, we make sure to consider those factors.

I thank my friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, I feel compelled to point out, after listening to the debate and the hyperbole, the passionate thoughts of what a high priority this is for the Republican leadership to bring this bill to the…

Mr. Speaker, just the night before last the President addressed this body and laid out an agenda that we all might not agree with certain elements, but there are elements that we could certainly act upon. We could take up an infrastructure…

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding. Let me first say something about the process that we are engaged in. We have heard just in the last few weeks--and even as we opened this Congress--the Speaker and others in the majority…

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the Record that the House should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure instead of yet another attack on women's access to health care. The SPEAKER pro tempore…

First of all, thank you to my colleague, Mr. Pocan, for his leadership on this and for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a really important subject for the American people. It is a really important subject for the people that I represent in…

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, here we are on the second day of the 114th Congress. It has not yet been 24 hours since Members of this Congress were sworn in. What we have before us is a package of 11 complex bills with…

I thank the gentlewoman. Madam Speaker, I share the concern expressed by my friend, Mr. Cole, that if we don't act today, government will be shut down, so I agree that we need to act. The question that we have to ask ourselves in this body…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Speaker, as a freshman, I have learned to be brief, and I will be brief. Coming from Michigan and growing up in a political family and actually succeeding my own uncle, Dale Kildee, in this seat…