This is to request a dollar in and a dollar out to be used in that process for the inspector general to look into the VA Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction, which is a subdivision of the Office of Construction and…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 37, line 15, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1) (increased by $1)''. The CHAIR. The…

I appreciate that very much. With that assurance, I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry). The amendment was agreed to.

I thank Chairman McKeon and Ranking Member Smith for accepting my amendment as part of this en bloc package. In the last months of the Bush Administration, a change was made authorizing veterans and active-duty military not in uniform to…

We create 20,000 jobs building this pipeline, and we have a relationship with China where we access the second or third largest reserve. And the gentleman is right. There's a pipeline that they're building to go off west so the Chinese can…

I thank the gentleman, and I rise in strong support of the gentleman from Georgia's motion to instruct conferees to support the Keystone pipeline in the transportation bill. Let's start with a quick tutorial here. Right here above the…

I thank the gentleman. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of this bill. It's a sensible bill that builds a necessary pillar in the cybersecurity strategy of our Nation. I've immersed myself in cybersecurity over the last couple of years…

He kills those 20,000 direct jobs. There's millions of jobs, if we just used our own resources. Do you know that we can be completely energy secure using our own resources? But this administration lacks the will to be able to do that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Certainly, the President of the United States knows how to say ``no.'' He says ``no'' to the Keystone pipeline, turning down its application just 3 months ago. This gives the United States access to probably the…

The only ones that are least disadvantaged by that are the biggest entities that have a houseful of lawyers that could go over it and read it. Rural Nebraska doesn't have the opportunity to do that and reply. So giving them sufficient time…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, may I submit that my friend, who just spoke on the other side, maybe was a victim of some poor staff work that took some liberties to revise and extend the real bill that we are debating here today…

I don't know about the court case where it really raised some serious issues regarding the credibility behind the rule, itself. What I do know is that, by passing this bill today, we basically push the restart button so that the entities…