Lee Terry

I appreciate all of that. Mr. Chairman, by the way, I would disagree with the last speaker on whether or not there would be no environmental oversight. The State Department has over 10,000 pages of environmental studies that were done…

Bad news is they are completely panicked in how to actually do the plan and how to actually meet the 26 percent mandated reduction.

the policy goals we consider here today are not a matter of partisan politics.

I want to thank Chairman Shuster and his staff for their hard work and steadfast leadership that got something accomplished that took over 7 years to get to this point. Great job. This is the way the Constitution was meant for Congress to…

Will the gentleman yield now? Because that is absolutely wrong, and you know it.

This bill is absolutely necessary when we look at the facts as we know them currently and we look at the information that we are uncertain about. Number one is we have lost four people in an attack that we now know is a terrorist attack…

I first want to thank my colleagues on the VA-MilCon Subcommittee--in particular, Mr. Fortenberry and Mr. Culberson and their staff--for their excellent work on this legislation in helping me facilitate this amendment and discussion. I…

The Secretary mentioned he was open to the language that you have inserted, which is a great step forward. Was he open to actually meeting with the delegation on the options that our community is putting forward?

I am intending, Mr. Chairman, to withdraw this amendment at the end of the gentleman's 5 minutes; but I do want to encourage General, Secretary Shinseki to actually sit down and listen to these options. We are not there to berate him or…

Now, the purpose of this inquiry was to discuss some health care alternatives for the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. Our hospital for 170,000 area veterans is in serious disrepair--boilers, HVAC, emergency generators. The…

Thank you, Mr. Fortenberry. I think the language is innovative and absolutely necessary, and I compliment you on your perseverance on this issue as well and on the insertion of this language into the bill. Mr. Chairman, the lend-lease or…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 54, after line 12, insert the following: Sec. 224. None of the funds made available in this Act for ``Department of Veterans…

As Thomas Edison once said, to invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

I would also add that you also need to fight for your invention because, as Thomas Moore said, it is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

I disagree. The fact remains that these bad actors are arrogantly manipulating the intellectual property system-and they're getting away with it.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

We don't trust Russia or China when they are sitting on there, or Iran or now Turkey, to make policy decisions.

We have just gone through an hour of talking about uninsured, and I want to talk an hour about creating jobs and that it is time to build the Keystone pipeline. The Keystone pipeline has just reached its 2,001st day of the birth of its…

I am baffled, too, so I appreciate your comments. Mr. Speaker, I just want to sum up here: 2,001 days since the permit for this pipeline was filed and over 22,000 pages of scientific review. This permit has been sitting around longer than…

I would even let him keep it. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Thank you. It was about a year ago this time that H.R. 3, one of our leadership bills, came through our Energy and Commerce Committee that would have permitted the Keystone pipeline passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support in this…

We in the House have passed about 430 bills. 89 of them actually gotten out of the Senate. Well over about 100, I guess--maybe even more than 100--actually are like the Keystone pipeline, that would create--immediately create jobs, but yet…

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas. At this time, I want to yield to our friend from New Jersey (Mr. Lance).

I thank the gentleman from Ohio. I think if there is someone watching C-SPAN and they watched the first hour, the Democratic hour, and now they are watching us, they are seeing how they advocated for unemployment insurance, and we are…