I find that inappropriate.

I want to know why businesses in my area didn't get the same opportunities to loans.

Yesterday was a tragic day. In our thoughts and prayers are those who lost their lives or were injured during the Boston Marathon, as well as the families and friends of those affected. The character of our country was reflected in the…

Claims that agency officials are not being straightforward with the public about their implementation of sequestration is simply not true.

Why can't we focus on what needs to be done to get our economy moving so that these cuts don't happen to begin with?

I for the life of me don't understand why we keep having these hearings that, to take my colleague's quote that he just said, I don't know where to place the blame or where the blame has to go.

if we cut back it is actually going to cost us more in the long run. That is a fool's choice, in my opinion, and on behalf of my constituents.

I think it provides for the opportunity for a lot of these issues to be debated.

So, just so I understand, only 25 percent of the revenues under the proposed legislation generated would go to rural counties. Is that correct?

Today is an important day in women's history and our country's history. It is the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, a reminder of the progress we have made in the fight for equality, and a reminder that the fight is not over…

I come to the floor with a heavy heart today. I am deeply saddened by the loss of life as the result of an explosion during a live-fire training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot last night, which is located in the northwest part of…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this time I'd like to yield to the gentlelady from California, Representative Bass, who, as a former legislator like myself, has dealt with these types of brutal across-the-board cuts as proposed and having to…

The people of my district sent me to represent them here to solve problems, not to create new ones.

the public understands that this reprogram authority is not an unrestricted power to pick and choose funding priorities based on the harm to the public.

They want us to work together to solve problems and the sequester is a problem that needs to be fixed.

As we have heard, those in the oil and gas sectors believe that failure to permit foreign exports of LNG could severely undermine that industry and would ultimately affect current and future jobs.

I hope we have the public's interest in mind rather than merely just one industry's welfare or profit.

On the one hand, prices are at an all time low. These low prices have benefitted the manufacturers, the consumers and household users.

I want to get back to this issue of who should be involved in this process.

I would now like to turn to the physician who is in the House. We have one of the experts in health care, someone who knows how important the Affordable Care Act is and the preservation of the Affordable Care Act. I find it interesting…

May I confirm how much time we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). The gentleman has 21 minutes remaining.

Good evening, Mr. Speaker. It's my privilege to join with my colleague, Mr. Jeffries, the gentleman from New York, to coanchor this hour along with the Congressional Black Caucus and my colleagues from the CBC to talk about something very…

I view you all as partners. And I would just hope that we can change some of the rhetoric...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the remaining time, Mr. Speaker, I would like to turn to two of our members on the Budget Committee, people who have heard firsthand the devastating cuts from the House Republican proposal and who have worked so…

Congresswoman Christensen, let me thank you again for your hard work in fighting for quality health care for all Americans. My grandmother suffered a stroke when I was only 9 weeks old, and she went into a coma. When she came out of that…