Jeff Fortenberry

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 Nebraska will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Grayson

I thank both the chairman and the ranking member for this respectful dialogue. These are tough judgment calls. I understand that. In my judgment, the risks do not outweigh the potential rewards here. Until we have a strong, significant…

I believe this amendment is absolutely consistent with the underlying portions of the bill that reaffirm that the policy of the United States should be that we will not enter into armed conflict in Syria. Madam Chair, along the…

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 in this Act…

We just heard an extensive debate about the future of America's defense policy. I want to commend the chairman for including an important amendment that I offered that does address a serious, serious issue. It is very hard to react to…

When pressed last week by a reporter about the tragic events on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, the former spokesperson for the National Security Council said this: ``Dude, this was like 2 years ago.'' Now, this juvenile and…

Again, I want to thank my colleague, Lee Terry, for his steadfast commitment to this important issue. Mr. Chairman, I think we should all be on the same page. Everybody shares the general goal and mission as to how to get this new hospital…

I would like to read the language that is in this bill. It reads: Alternative Financing: The committee is concerned about meeting the need for access to high-quality veterans' health care facilities, including in rural areas where access…

I thank my friend and colleague, Congressman Terry, for his steadfast commitment in trying to find some creative resolution for this problem. Mr. Chairman, he is very right in outlining this timeline of frustrations that we have had in…

We discussed not necessarily the specific language. We, in working with the committee, came up with this. Again, I want to thank Chairman Culberson for his leadership in helping craft this. The Secretary expressed a general openness toward…

And, by the way, on housing. As the Secretary pointed out, the VA does this on housing as well. Mr. Chairman, there are creative options out there that do not give the government a longer term budgetary risk, but they nonetheless help us…

We cannot let something happen here.

if we are looking at the creation of a star and we are not exactly sure whether or not we can do that and we are pouring lots and lots of money into it versus trying to prevent the explosion of a nuclear weapon in an American city, there…

What I don't want to see is us 2, 3 years from now having spent even more money on this saying that it is going to go into cold storage.

It seems to me, by our proposed reductions in terms of our contribution, it is an admission that the chaotic management of that international effort is a very significant problem.

Perhaps one of the most important things that you and I can do in our time of public service is to ensure that we decrease the probability of the use of a nuclear device to as close to zero as possible.

If I could interrupt, that is an excellent point.

The important policy point is this: The energy entrepreneurs who are out there who are working on distributed systems of energy generation and renewables are, I think, on the cusp of a lot of new innovative approaches here.

We have the world on the verge of nuclear weapons proliferation. That is the reality.

I want to emphasize something that Congressman Frelinghuysen said.

I think we have effective programs with the IAEA. We support the IAEA quite strongly.

In terms of, again, prioritization--and we all have to make hard choices--we cannot react to a nuclear incident.

Is there a right to nuclear power?

One idea that I thought of after your testimony last week: Instead of having some sort of annual review, what if we broke that up into even more micro tranches and looked at it quarterly...

Well, let's fix that. Why don't we fix that?