Mark Meadows

Dr. Meckes, I want to come back to the FEMA reimbursement side, because you mentioned that in your opening testimony.

Effective preparedness and planning for response and recovery must include how we plan for and manage animals in these areas hit by disasters.

The canines and their handlers in the search-and-rescue teams are critical to saving lives.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from North Carolina will be postponed. {time} 1830 Amendment No. 11 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee…

At least we have found something that the gentleman from Michigan and I can agree on. What is wrong is wrong, and that is wrong. When you look at what the gentleman is trying to propose with his legislation, and the fact that he is trying…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from North Carolina has 45 seconds remaining.

I just find it amazing that somehow we are here debating this issue, and he is suggesting that the numbers prove his point, and they do exactly the opposite. The fact of the matter is that the reason why unions are failing is because the…

It is interesting to hear this debate because the very State that the gentleman is from is a right-to-work State. I find it just amazing. He comes down here and suggests that somehow Washington, D.C., knows better than his own home State…

My amendment strikes the language in the PRO Act that would, in effect, repeal right-to-work laws nationwide. Currently, 27 States have adopted right-to-work laws that protect workers in their States from forced unionization. Eight of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike page 30, line 17, and all that follows through page 31, line 2. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

I urge the bill's passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.

All of us have come together to give a little bit of what we got in big doses, and that was compassion and care from a man who was not only strongest in his convictions, but resolute in those convictions as well. So I rise in support. I…

I will just cut to the chase. Let's get this thing done and get it over with and make sure that we show the ``respect'' that we should. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Again, this bill actually takes five different laws that have really not been codified in an appropriate manner, brings them together under one umbrella, and allows us to address this in a meaningful way, a commonsense bill. Mr. Speaker, I…

I do need to correct a few things that the gentleman from Oregon just addressed. This is not--support or being against this bill is not an attack on the Postal Service. I mean, there is no one who has invested more time--I can promise you…

I appreciate all the points that my friends opposite are making. In fact, I have made some of the very same points when we talk about reform bills. The problem is, all the wonderful things that they are talking about in this bill do not…

I thank the gentleman for his comments, and I would also join him. We have got a number of great unions that I have had the privilege of getting to know over this time as we looked at comprehensive reform, and his acknowledging them and…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia, and I want to highlight his work on this particular issue, and I agree with him that this, ultimately, will be part of what has to be dovetailed into anything we do to fix the Postal Service. Mr…

I love the passion. The only problem is it is misplaced. I can tell you that, if this bill would truly solve the business model that the Postal Service has, I would rise and support it. If this is all we are going to do, hallelujah. Let's…

And rise in opposition to the bill. No one has invested more time than perhaps Mr. Connolly or myself on postal reform. But I think it was Winston Churchill who said that no matter how beautiful the strategy, we must occasionally look at…

I thank the gentlewoman's courtesy. I urge support for this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I appreciate the gentlewoman's flexibility, but if you would let me reclaim my time and yield to the gentleman, who made it in by the hair on his chinny chin chin. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Himes). Without objection, the gentleman from…

I am sure we have one other speaker who is running in the halls right now, but I may let him speak upon a different bill. Let me just mention Mr. Walberg's leadership on this, a real shout- out to him and his leadership on trying to make…

I certainly would rise in support of this legislation. I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for her kind words. Ms. Tlaib has been leading on this. The gentlewoman is right. Chairman Cummings had an infectious way of bringing people…

I grew up with very humble beginnings, and with a loving mother and loving father, and yet I understand what--well, I don't know that I understand, but I have empathy for the stories that you are sharing with me.