H.R.1357 recognizes the non-traditional student by expanding the Vow to Hire Heroes Act of 2011.

I respectfully request your support of this bill.

the VFW is proud to support Representative Johnson's efforts to allow certain VRAP's participants to utilize their benefits for programs technically designated as less than full-time.

Congratulations to you for your appointment and confirmation to what I believe is one of the most important Cabinet positions in the Nation right now.

I commend the Department for conducting a 2-year, $350 million cost-shared RD&D program to demonstrate reliability of the U.S. centrifuge project at the Piketon facility.

I would encourage you--and I am sure you have heard this before, let the market drive this.

Wow. Well, I like that answer. You are one of the first in this Administration to avoid picking winners and losers here in Washington.

As many have heard me say on the floor of this Chamber many times before, we have a tremendous opportunity to revitalize America's economy through domestic energy production. We can create jobs, lower energy costs, and become energy…

I find it would be irresponsible if I didn't mention this. It sounds like the lightbulb has come on for my colleague from Maryland. He now says that we should replace the sequester. I only wish that that lightbulb had come on when the…

However, we know and it has even been admitted that the idea of sequestration came from the White House.

I spent nearly 30 years of my professional career in information technology.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am, indeed, honored to join you and the rest of our colleagues here in sharing some thoughts on what the American people now should expect in the coming months and years from the administration's so-called…

Yeah, that was pretty much the case. I started to challenge him to a Monopoly game because that's funny money. That's a way of manipulating the numbers, and that's more of the dishonesty that's being perpetrated on the American people with…

Absolutely. Every time we asked Mr. Cohen who are premiums going to go down for, he avoided the question. He couldn't tell us that premiums were going to go down for anyone. We asked him, Are they going to go down for the young? Are they…

I thank my friend. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire about how much time we have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 28 minutes remaining. {time} 1610

I thank the gentleman. At this time, we'll go to my colleague from Arkansas (Mr. Griffin).

May I inquire how much time we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Black). The gentleman has 31 minutes remaining.

It's good to be in the people's House this afternoon to talk about a topic that is of utmost concern to the American people--energy. What does it mean for America? We all put gas in our cars, we all heat and cool our homes, businesses…

At this time I would like to yield to my colleague from Virginia (Mr. Griffith).

I thank my colleague from South Carolina, and at this time I yield to our chairman from Texas (Mr. Smith).

I thank my colleague. I yield some time now to our colleague from Texas (Mr. Farenthold).

The American people were promised two things.

We have a very different understanding of what is driving the cost of healthcare.

We saw yet another sickening act of terror yesterday in Boston. It was a grim reminder that there is evil in the world. There are those with dark hearts and twisted ideologies bent on killing Americans because of who we are and the values…

This is important legislation I introduced to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs' fiduciary program.