David Thomas: “It is surprising, because the economy has grown substantially, that we find some complaining about it over there. It is…”

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…

although it is unrelated to what we are doing, I wish to talk a little bit about general tax reform. The amendments are very important, and we are dealing with the issue, of course, of the minimum wage and offsetting some of those costs to…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5602 was a bill that was introduced in June of this year by the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ramstad) and principally the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson). This is the culmination of a long and sometimes very…

What it has to do with is limiting the amount of additions that can be put on supplementals that are designed for Defense spending. The amendment I am offering would attempt to bring some discipline back into the emergency spending…