Brian Higgins: “Expanding passenger rail would revolutionize transportation in America, stimulate economic development and job creation…”

Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well.

I am so encouraged by the direction this Congress is taking from a bipartisan perspective to push forward, quite righteously, the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate WEP and GPO.

The American economy is--we are 25 percent of the world's economy.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Donalds The Acting CHAIR. It is…