In reclaiming my time, I thank both of the floor leaders for their support. Madam Chair, I want to make clear that this amendment will simply ensure that no funds may be made available under this bill for the transfer of these devastating…

How do we cover this? ... how do we increase and improve the cooperation between GSA and the Judiciary?

the Chairman of the full Committee, Mr. Goodlatte, has requested the GSA to examine how it went about selecting court facilities for renovation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

the Conference notified us just yesterday that it intends to study this very issue based on a comprehensive survey and working group collaborative format with the General Services Administration.

Well, we have a problem, it seems to me, with the background check requirement. Because there is general feeling that it ought to be expanded.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I wish to speak on the point of order. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized.

My initial response to the point of order made by the distinguished gentleman is that this is already in the law. To argue now that a modification of it is inappropriate I do not think should allow this point of order to be sustained. The…

Last month, the House passed H.R. 3361, the 'USA FREEDOM Act,' which I had a significant role in bringing forward.

yesterday's shooting in a high school in Oregon is the 74th school shooting since the attack on Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012.

I am proud to have voted in favor of the only measure to pass the House that rolls back any aspect of government surveillance since the passages of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Ladies and gentlemen, this amendment would help ensure prudent oversight over the program so that only loans that have truly met all of HUD's loss mitigation requirements are sold through the Distressed Asset Stabilization Program. I hope…

Ladies and gentlemen, this amendment fights foreclosures by limiting payment of the FHA insurance claims in cases in which borrowers have not been through the full FHA loss mitigation process. Our Nation's foreclosure crisis is not only an…

I continue to believe that there should be compensation for artists whose songs are played over terrestrial radio.

Congressman Conyers, you absolutely go to the heart of the reason that I am here.

I believe that all artists should be compensated fairly, and that it makes no sense to have arbitrary decisions on who should be paid for their work.

This bill would assure that legacy artists and copyright owners of all works, whether recorded before or after February 15, 1972, are compensated by those who benefit from the Federal statutory license.

And we have to end up in a rate court on top of it all and I think that this is the new situation that we have been in since the decree.

Religious freedom was one of the core principles upon which our Nation was founded.

The real threat to religious liberty is continuing religious bias or intolerance against members of minority religions.

religious freedom was one of the core principles upon which our Nation was founded.

Targeting American Muslims for scrutiny based on their religion violates the core principles of religious freedom and equal protection under the law.

Ladies and gentlemen, this amendment seeks to increase funding for the National Homeless Data Analysis Project by $2 million. This requested increase from $5 million to $7 million is consistent with both the President's budget request and…

Taking someone else's labor and not paying is simply unfair, and this bill seeks basic fairness for artists who created sound recordings before 1972.

I have an amendment at the desk, Conyers No. 1. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 99, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. The…