Joe Crowley

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) has 1\1/ 2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 45, after line 14, insert the following: SEC. 127. HISPANIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM IN EDUCATION AND…

I thank Mr. Hurd for his comments. I want the Record to reflect that I was willing and expecting to be yielding the gentleman 1 minute. Since the cooperation is running so smoothly, Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding the 2 minutes to Mr…

I thank the gentleman from Washington, my good friend Mr. Larsen, for yielding me this time. Mr. Chairman, the effort to expand U.S.-India relations has always been and continues to be a bipartisan effort, and I want to thank both sides of…

Don't deny the best, the brightest, and the bravest the opportunity to serve in our Nation's Armed Forces.

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. No greater love is there than to lay down your life for another. It is a paraphrase. It is biblical, secular. Here, we have individuals, the DREAMers, who are American in every way…

On May 1, 2015 I was absent for recorded votes No. 208-215. I would like to reflect how I would have voted if I were here: on rollcall No. 208 I would have voted ``no,'' on rollcall No. 209 I would have voted ``no,'' on rollcall No. 210 I…

I in no way, shape, or form support the privatization of any role of the IRS, be that through private debt collectors.

I think it is important to make sure our Federal agencies are operating in a way that helps our constituents.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman--Chairman Roskam and Ranking Member Lewis, for holding this hearing today on the IRS and its operations.

I was tempted to rise when my friend Mr. McCarthy from California was speaking of the great, late President Abraham Lincoln and his legacy--really, a dichotomy of a man, a very complicated individual. We know of his great achievements, of…

I think that is why it is so important to keep supporting programs, and ensuring that they remain refundable for the low-income families that can benefit mostly from them.

So, I am committed to this issue, too, because you are really talking about a core issue in America.

we do need to fund what works, and that is fund the social safety net programs that help people.

I think that is interesting.

I think we, as a government, should do what we can to help lift them out of that, and that includes helping parents work.

The federal safety net programs lifted 39 million Americans out of poverty.

we should be pursuing government policies that reduce effects of global warming.

The budgets that have been performed by my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle, I believe, have disproportionately cut programs that serve working families.

If these programs keep children from going to bed hungry at night, I think we should continue them.

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding me this time. It is unfortunate we are here today, once again, in a situation where I think the overall intent sounds very good: charitable giving, helping the poor, helping the hungry…

Not perfect. We still have a ways to go. But isn't that remarkable? A Democratic President that reduced the deficit, was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars by his Republican predecessor, and now this President can lay claim--and I…

But that power must be measured and used appropriately to get to criminals and not trap innocent American citizens.

Firstly, let me say that I have great empathy for all of you and what you have gone through.

So the audit is continuing? In other words, the IRS continues to audit you----