Rush Holt: “If the leadership of this committee and this House would actually get to work and get the Elementary and Secondary…”

we are talking about a pipeline with the capacity to transport 830,000 barrels per day of tar sands product, one of the dirtiest energy sources on the planet.

I would prefer to talk about how it is not working right now and how something like the Affordable Care Act, an honorable attempt to see that we have got affordable, excellent health care for all Americans, should be the focus of a…

I would add to that it is as archaic as the name suggests. This is a relic of a different era.

I believe our parks are too precious a resource for us simply to abandon our responsibility in that matter.