I thank my friend from New Jersey for yielding, and I'm glad he's back with us. The purpose of this bill is to make it as hard as possible for a hardworking person to get health insurance for their family. So somewhere in America today…

The capabilities in place now and in place on the alert status that we had them last week, modulated to the very highest level, would significantly have increased and improved our response capability.

I think we all wish you great success in achieving a successful resolution of this effort.

I think it is also important to put this diplomatic discussion in context. This is not a proposal that just sort of spontaneously combusted.

What is necessary to take place among the warring factions in Syria for that to be a viable and practical option?

I agree with your assessment that absent a credible threat it would not have happened.

I've sat and listened to the debate this morning and heard a lot of the slogans that we hear on this repeated again and again and again. I would simply return to the point that I made earlier: for a family that makes $40,000 a year, has…

Colleagues, somewhere in America today a family is going to get the devastating news you all dread about your children: they're going to hear that that lump in their daughter's stomach is cancer. And they're going to go home and they're…

Our intent is not to promote institutionalized godlessness. Our intent is to promote constitutional fealty. When a young man or young woman raises their right hand and swears allegiance to this country and agrees to serve in the Armed…

11 years after Brown v. Board of Education presented an unfulfilled promise, in 1965 the Congress passed a law that said that we should have Federal resources for the children that were achieving the least in America's most difficult…

I oppose this amendment, we oppose this amendment because we believe it is redundant and ideological. It truly is a solution in search of a problem. Not one word of existing Federal law, and as I read it, not one word of the underlying…

If a school said that African American children could not take advanced math, it would be wrong and illegal. I think most of us agree if a school said that Jewish children couldn't enroll in a certain program, that would be wrong--and it…

It is my understanding that the majority side has yielded back its time, and we have how much time left? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is correct; the majority has yielded back its time. The gentleman from New Jersey has 1 minute…

The purpose of this final amendment, which would not delay consideration of the bill, if passed, is to be sure that no one who's covered by their employer today suffers as a result of this bill. But make no mistake about it, the purpose of…

One of the gentlemen who spoke a few minutes ago said the facts should not be twisted. I completely agree. Here are some facts that the House and the country should have under consideration as we debate this bill. We hear repeatedly on the…

The purpose of this amendment, which if passed would let us still proceed to final passage, is to provide protection for important consumer protections that I believe this bill puts in jeopardy. There's probably not a Member of this…

Yes, I am. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. ANDREWS moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2668 to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report the same back to…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adoption. The vote…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, the 5-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5- minute votes on the passage of…

I most certainly am. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. ANDREWS moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2667 to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report the same…

I thank my friend for the time. A lot of American families are getting their financial aid notices for the new academic year. Much to their chagrin, they're opening these envelopes and finding out that the student loan that cost them 3.4…

I would implore my friends on the Republican side to consider signing this petition.

Thousands of American families are trying to re-up their student loans for the new academic year and finding out, to their horror that the rates have doubled.

There are five witnesses in the hearing, four of them are on one side of the question, one is on the other.

I am not sure what the official count is, but I think we are still in the neighborhood of 8 million to 9 million unemployed people in our country officially, and that is the number one problem in the country as far as I am concerned that…