David Thomas

I began to uncover the research and studies on Iraq Afghanistan War Lung disease, and the devastating effects of the 'burn pits' on service members and civilians.

I think this is a very equitable and timely distribution of these funds. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

That is boilerplate language that is used. This is something that we do virtually every year because there are always accounting errors, and this allows for the correcting of the accounting errors.

This legislation is, in essence, a modest effort to provide the structure and resources necessary for citizens, schools, communities and others to undertake projects in the actual locales in which the so-called internment camps were…

I am going to support the bill before us, although I don't think it is perfect. I think, frankly, there needs to be some limit on building fences. I cannot imagine building a fence, a 40-foot-tall fence, all across the border. All we would…

Speaker after speaker after speaker on the other side of the aisle went in the well. What was the common plea? Give us a clean vote on minimum wage. Just give us a clean vote on minimum wage. You have got 169 pages here. They wrote it…

Reclaiming my time, millions of Americans are thankful they now have prescription drugs at significant savings. I know it is difficult because another line went through one of your typical political arguments. Test us. See if we are just…

This morning we will have approximately 1 hour of debate prior to the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the Gulf of Mexico energy security bill. The vote will occur at about 10 o'clock today, and immediately following that vote we…

Under the rule in consideration of this bill, the minority was allowed a motion to recommit. A motion to recommit was offered. It was clearly on its face nongermane. The Chair has just ruled that that so-called motion to recommit was…

It is now my pleasure to provide 3 minutes in support of H.R. 5638, the compromise that is endorsed by the National Association of Home Builders, the National Association of Realtors, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the majority…

I will tell my colleague that in my opening remarks I indicated that there were provisions that passed both the House and the Senate in the reconciliation packages that are not part of this bill. We are working currently on this next bill…

It is my pleasure to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. English).

How is the time distributed at this point? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Culberson). The gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas) has 20 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) has 24 minutes remaining.

If, in fact, I said taxes, I obviously meant income taxes, and I appreciate the gentleman's bringing that point to me. And I would like the record corrected to say, they do not pay income taxes.

I do appreciate having you around making sure that everyone understands that what we did in 2001 was take millions of people off of the income tax rolls.

It is obvious the gentleman from New York wants to make sure you do not hear this. As I said, you do not need 12 minutes to say this: If you vote ``yes'' for the Democrat substitute, you are increasing taxes over 5 years by $40 billion…

Either he was voting to protect the incomes of the very rich in Massachusetts or he exercised a futile procedure. There were four Members of his party who voted no. He had an opportunity, if he believed it was not real to vote no. He voted…

Whose time is it, Mr. Speaker? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gingrey). The gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas) has the time.

Notwithstanding the equal time, Mr. Speaker, if the gentlewoman says it is a final speaker, we normally honor that. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaHood). The gentleman from New York is recognized for 3 minutes.

The Chair is not rising to a point of order on the substance because the Chair supports the substance; it is the manner in which it is being carried in an appropriations bill. The Chair wishes to work with the chairman very closely to make…

I appreciate that, and I yield myself 15 seconds. If we could get the mileage out of the gallon of gasoline that they get out of 1 minute, we would not need an energy policy in this country. First of all, I want to thank the five Democrats…

I understand section 222 of the Transportation, Treasury and Postal title provides the Committee on Appropriations with proper access to IRS facilities for oversight purposes but not the ability to examine individual tax returns, data, or…

When you have medical providers who go to underserved areas, they are given financial incentives to go, and in the past those incentives which caused them to go there were taxable. We were able to take that taxable business out, so we will…

If you want to create jobs here in this country, if you want to preserve the jobs that are here in this country, if you want to make American companies more competitive, if you want to give them a better chance to compete in the…