Rob Andrews

A bill that Mr. Courtney introduced on April 17th that would put off that rate increase for 2 years, would not add a penny to the deficit.

I understand these goals are integrated, they all relate to each other.

But a critical piece of addressing the enemy situation in Afghanistan is going to be where Pakistan is with regards to supporting the enemy inside of Pakistan.

I know what is supposed to happen when those Special Ops forces are no longer in the country doing that.

Thank you for your service to our country and please convey to the men and women that you lead how proud we are of them and how much we support them and want them home safely.

This is an area where I think we will deeply regret not staying current, not staying ahead of the rest of the world if we don't make some unpleasant choices about base structure.

I appreciate the fact you are struggling with limited dollars. We have made that decision, not you.

For every $100 we were spending in 2004 on research and development, we are now spending $85.00.

I would advise my friend and the Speaker that we have no more speakers at this time. What I would propose, with the Speaker's discretion, is I'd like to speak for about 1 minute. Perhaps if your other speaker arrives, we could accommodate…

I thank my friend, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I'm pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to someone who has walked in the shoes of those collectively bargaining and organizing, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson).

I'm pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Linda T. Sanchez), a Member who fought for these kind of rights before she got here as a litigator and has fought for them since.

But why wouldn't it be lower if the number of troops is significantly lower?

So there will be time to transition into those----

I noticed that in the President's budget proposal that he does propose the replacement of sequestration. He also suggests that there still would be $150 billion in cuts in defense, not the $550 billion or so that we have otherwise.

If the Congress doesn't reach the kind of agreement that I just talked about and we have year two or the first full year of sequestration, which it would be, what kind of other changes would you have to make in the defense posture of the…

Please convey to the men and women you represent how proud we are of them and the great job that they do for our country every day.

A guest worker program is not a luxury. It is a basic business necessity critical to their survival.

Letter, dated March 18, 2013, from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)

There is discussion of a proposal that would reduce Medicaid spending by about 18 percent under the next 10 years from $4.1 trillion projected down--well, the cut is $756 billion.

Do you think that there is a critical error--shortage of needed workers in the construction field in the United States today?

I am very hopeful and optimistic we will have comprehensive immigration reform this year. Our country needs it.

We claim we want students to take advantage of income contingent repayment, but the gainful employment rule... is I think a pretty contradictory view.

What Congressman Andrews was essentially purporting is that we should measure risk looking backwards when we know what already happened.

This is a very big deal.

We have two federal policies working at cross purposes.