Rob Andrews: “The Congress is scheduled to adjourn next Friday for 6 weeks.”

I thank my friend for yielding. With a sense of real mixed emotions, I join this discussion tonight, certainly with gratitude and pride for Barry's 33 years of service but also for a real sense of regret that he will not be a part of our…

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

If the bills that are on the floor today pass unanimously--which they won't--here is what happens next. They go to the Senate, the Senate maybe takes them up, maybe doesn't take them up, passes them, maybe doesn't pass them, and this whole…

Provocation is not the goal of these questions; a sober analysis is.