One of the things that I have enjoyed in this House is sincerity. There's not a Member of this House that thinks the President of the United States is going to delay, repeal, or tear apart the Affordable Care Act; but if there's politics…

The current proceeding, if I am not correct, involves a concurrent resolution. The whole world knows what is before this House. Is the Chair saying, from a parliamentary point of view, that we can't deal with the issue of an agreement…

Is it the Chair's ruling that you cannot rule whether or not a resolution that's agreed to by the House and the Senate does not go to the President? Is that the Chair's parliamentary ruling, that you cannot give us an answer to that basic…

I thank Ranking Member Fudge for giving me this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, I was sitting in the back and I heard one of the Republicans say that what Moses would want--and he was talking about some picture--and I just came up to say that I…

I was prepared to respond to the chairman and ranking member for their legislative courtesies they had extended to me. I appreciate the tribute being paid to me which, unusually, I was awkwardly unprepared for. But I do want to thank the…

If the gentleman would yield, I thank you so much, my dear colleague from New York.

Let me thank my friend and colleague from the great Borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, and my colleagues, for coming down to the floor. Mr. Speaker, when we started the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971, I guess most people said: Why…

I've been here over four decades, and I have never seen legislation just completely be ignored. I'm thoroughly convinced that the Republican majority are not the least bit concerned about health care, because if they were, they would have…

And how long was that? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts' time was charged 4\1/2\ minutes. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary…

Were the remarks of the gentleman from Missouri charged to the debate as it relates to the rule? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is correct.

Let me first congratulate and thank my colleague, Congressman Fattah, for putting together this moment. I know this is going to be one of a series of tributes that we're going to have that reminds me how we all feel as we lose a dear…

First, let me thank Congressman Green for yielding to me the opportunity to speak out of order and to remind this body that, in a recent conversation I had with John Lewis, our hero and colleague, I asked him the question: Just what drove…