The Stop the War on Coal Act is up today. It is the coal industry which is waging war on our mountains by leveling them, war on our lungs by burning dirty fuel, war on healthy children by being the single largest source of mercury…

Did Peabody Energy Company deliberately unload a bad investment on public power organizations serving 217 cities and villages across the Midwest? Congress must find out because Peabody Energy lured public power organizations into contracts…

I condemn all the violence that has been talked about here, and I also had the opportunity years ago to visit the synagogue in Buenos Aires that was the subject of that attack, and I paid my respects. I want to say that as I've heard this…

In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified organisms were the functional equivalent of conventional foods. They arrived at this decision without testing GMOs for allergenicity, toxicity, antibiotic…

I certainly join with my colleagues in mourning the passing, under tragic circumstances, of Ambassador Stevens, as well as the deaths of Sean Smith and security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, as well as all those who were injured…

I shall continue then. When you walk into the Bradbury Science Museum at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, you're greeted on your immediate left by replicas of Fat Man and Little Boy, the two bombs that dropped on Hiroshima…

In the last 4\1/2\ minutes I want to read a poem by Henry Reed. He juxtaposes in this poem Japan before the dropping of the bomb and the technical aspects of the bomb itself. {time} 2010 It's called ``The Naming of Parts'': Today we have…

If you were worried about guns at the border, then let's make it a federal crime to traffic guns.

Thank you. We have to now ask ourselves, since it can be widely disputed--and by top military officials--that the dropping of the bomb was not necessary, then why are we honoring this technology with a national park? It's really a…

The notion that people in Washington, the leadership of the Department approved the use of those tactics in Fast and Furious is simply incorrect.

To my friend, Mr. Hastings, the technology which created the bomb cannot be separated from the horror which the bomb created. The celebration of the technology of the bomb bespeaks a moral blindness to its effects, which include not only…

The president of Mexico saying this is wonderful; that will help guns on the border.

Let's ban assault weapons that aren't used to do anything but kill people.

This bill ought to be renamed the ``No More Solyndras, But More Money for Nuclear White Elephants Loan Program.'' My friends on the other side of the aisle like to talk about the free enterprise system, but I'm sure that you're aware that…

I thank Mr. Hastings for the opportunity to rise in opposition to the rule for the CR. The continuing resolution contains $99.9 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operation funds to continue the war in Afghanistan and to fund other…

Could I inquire of the Chair how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. There are 10 minutes remaining for the gentleman from Florida.

An article opposing the bill, by Autumn Hanna and Henry Sokolski in the National Review Online, states: The total number of projects this bill grandfathers isn't publicly available. Par for the course with this highly secretive program. We…

According to the ACLU, the law is written so broadly that a phone call by a U.S. citizen to a U.S. citizen overseas discussing general foreign affairs could be listened in on. Section 702 of this act allows the government to intercept the…

Thank you very much, Mr. Conyers. To my friends on the other side of the aisle who have expressed passion about passing this, you're good Americans, and I respect your position. I respectfully disagree. We have to defend our country from…

I yield myself 30 seconds. Collectively, the provisions in this bill move the goalpost from negotiations over Iran's nuclear enrichment program to regime change. I just want to point out that the record of our country on regime change…

I yield myself 1 minute. Sanctions are a form of war in this case, and it will lead to war. And remember, we're not talking about--some time ago we were talking about if Iran would have a nuclear weapon, but then the bar's been lowered to…

Could I ask how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio has 1 minute remaining.

Reserving the right to object, are we apportioning that 5 minutes from each side?

I yield myself 1 minute. These sanctions are hurting ordinary people in Iran. I pointed out earlier, matters like the price of rent, bread--Americans can understand that--education, all of these things are increasing. And these sanctions…

And how much time does the gentlelady have? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida has 30 seconds remaining.