Rob Andrews: “If we don't have the right people, if we can't recruit and retain the right people, this is not going to work.”

I want to enter your contest for a new name for nontraditional students. I would call them survivors.

Reclaiming my time, the Senate passed a bill to keep the government running at your numbers that you wanted in budget. We are asking, give every Member of this House a fair up-or-down vote on that bill. Will you do that? I yield to the…

My colleagues, Mr. Speaker, when people in politics don't want to say ``yes'' or ``no,'' they just keep talking. We could do a lot more tonight than just keep talking. We could cast a vote that would say to the American taxpayers, the…

I understand this is a conceptual proposal, but we don't legislate concepts; we legislate statutes and they have real impact on real people.