Jerry Nadler

I offer this motion to recommit on behalf of Ms. Velazquez. This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. It…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3229, which would extend an important tool in protecting the safety of judges and their families. Each year, Federal judges and certain other judicial…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, it has been said about this body that if you invent a nice enough title for a bill, it doesn't matter what you write in the bill because all people know is what the title is. This bill is…

Last year, Congress passed an updated formula for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (the HOPWA program). The change was necessary to ensure the program better reflected how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is changing in this country…

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. {time} 1530 The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike sections 8094 and 8095. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 478, the gentleman from New…

The Constitution should provide procedures for government and should protect individual rights but should not lock in policies, especially economic policies.

I just want to say that what the gentleman just mentioned, raising the retirement age of Social Security and various other things, are, in fact, benefit reductions.

That is fundamentally undemocratic and tyrannical.

Let me start off by saying that it is hard for me to imagine a more pernicious proposal than the balanced budget amendment.

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 California will be postponed. Amendment No. 43 Offered by Mr. McGovern The Acting CHAIR. It…

First of all, no one is proposing to release these people, although some probably should be released, but no one is proposing that, so take that red herring off the table. Second of all, I, too, have visited Guantanamo, and I don't know…

I will not take 5 minutes. This amendment will strike section 1023 of the bill that prohibits the use of funds to construct or modify facilities in the United States for Guantanamo detainees. The provision is simply designed to further…

It costs the American taxpayer $10 million a year per detainee to keep a detainee in Guantanamo. To keep that same detainee in a Federal maximum security penitentiary in the United States would cost $78,000. That is a ridiculous waste of…

The United States leads the world in innovation and creativity, which are key drivers of economic growth.

That is obnoxious and unprecedented. I understand you did not set it. It is an obnoxious and unprecedented contempt for Congress which is intolerable.

The administration's policy is that, as you have acknowledged it, is that minority members of the committee are entitled to no information and, therefore, they can continue the coverup.

The answer is no unless the Republican leadership of the committee wants and, and as long as the coverup is being continued, we are not going to see that information.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Yes, the previous speaker is right. This shouldn't be a partisan issue, but the Republican Party in both houses has been doing its best to destroy healthcare for the American people in the last couple of…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, thousands of New Yorkers and other Americans learned that they were ineligible for FEMA assistance because of the type of home in which they lived. Families who…

How, in the--how does the administration envision, in light of its budget proposals, that this admittedly key core project for the country will be funded?

But you are not answering my question.

Why does ensuring the safety of the flying public come second to the efforts to privatize our Nation's air traffic control system?

I understand--because, obviously, such instructions, whatever the legal basis, which I am not talking about, would be obnoxious in the extreme, and a violation of all the traditions of this country from 1789.

I must again correct the gentleman on the other side. The underlying title 18 is the criminal code. It lists a series of crimes and a series of penalties, and then you have a list of aggravating factors, which make the death penalty…