Mike McIntyre

The Air Force has waited too long, unfortunately, for a replacement for the KC-135, when we think about it being an aircraft with an average age of nearly 50 years.

It is critical, it is essential that the Federal Government get this right.

the funding provided in the Recovery Act has the potential to set the stage for many years of broadband access in rural areas.

While I support efforts to reduce pollution in our atmosphere and address the issues associated with climate change, I remain concerned about the real impact to consumers.

If this disastrous bill passes, the production costs for American farmers will skyrocket and their foreign competitors will not.

I urge my colleagues to oppose this dangerous national energy tax scheme that, if passed, threatens the very livelihood of America's farm families and rural communities.

To our great alarm, rural areas were not readily included in that stimulus package and as time went on after that very important roundtable discussion, I was especially concerned about water and wastewater projects and other issues that…

it is time for the discrimination to end and recognition to begin.

Enactment of H.R.31 would accomplish what the Lumbee Tribe has sought for one hundred and twenty years--full federal recognition.

There is no sense at all that the Lumbees are jumping in the front of the line. They have waited over a hundred years.

Indeed, we know that justice delayed is justice denied.

It is time indeed for discrimination to end and recognition to begin.

justice delayed is justice denied, and I think the last word, as the Chairman said, that I have said previously is that indeed, Mr. Chairman, it is time for the discrimination to end and the recognition to begin.