Thank you so much. And I want to thank Representative Christensen for continuing to host this hour. Thank you very much for your leadership. Mr. Speaker, for far too long, hardworking Americans have paid the price for policies that handed…

On March 6, 2012, Congressman Donald Payne of New Jersey passed away due to complications from colon cancer. Today, along with my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives, I pay tribute to the memory of Congressman Payne. While…

While today marks the end of his work on Earth, the results of his labor will live on for many years to come.

In my home State of Ohio, manufacturing is a major industry and we have many unemployed workers, as you might imagine, whose skills are not being used.

Today I rise to address the epidemic of hunger in this Nation. Nearly 49 million people in the United States suffer from hunger. That is one in six in the U.S. population, including more than one in five children. Feeding America recently…

Today I rise to address the need for jobs in this country. On Wednesday, we will have reached 400 days since the Republicans took control of the House without a jobs bill, even though my colleagues and I have been calling for and demanding…

Let me just say for the record that I did not talk about class; my colleague did. Let me as well say to you that if you talk to the American people, they believe in fundamental fairness. I don't think that the American people do not…

Can the Chair tell me how much time I have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Ohio will be postponed. Amendment No. 5 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The CHAIR. It is now…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, line 14, strike ``and'' and on line 15, before the period, insert ``, and income inequality''. Page 3…

I thank the Rules Committee and I thank the chairman for making this amendment in order. Mr. Chairman, today I rise to offer an amendment to H.R. 3582, the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act of 2012. The Pro-Growth Budgeting Act requires the…

Today I rise to address the importance of setting our priorities as a Congress. It seems that some of my colleagues have lost sight of what is important. We should be focused on putting teachers, firefighters, and construction workers back…

Let me thank my colleague who comes down to this floor every week. I know what it's like. I thank you for being the anchor for the CBC hour. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the covert voter suppression effort under way in the United…

After a year of attempts to eliminate Medicare and obstruct any kind of jobs bill, the Republican agenda is clear: eliminate the deficit at any cost, including at the expense of our most vulnerable, while adversely impacting our economic…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I rise today in strong opposition to this rule and the underlying bill. How in good conscience can we allow States to fund re-employment programs with money that would otherwise be in the pockets of the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, there is no doubt that a concerted voter suppression effort is under way in this Nation. Abolishing the Election Assistance Commission, an agency charged with ensuring that…

Any improper payments made with USDA funds are a concern for this Subcommittee.

I support your efforts to ensure that people who need SNAP receive the benefits as opposed to those who defraud the system.

Obviously, we all want to be good stewards of the public dollar, that is what this whole thing is about.

SNAP is the safety net that helps tens of millions of American families during this tough economic time.

I thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in opposition to the balanced budget amendment, H.J. Res. 2. Despite its name, this amendment does not balance the budget. It would have little effect on our deficit…

I thank the gentleman so much for his insight. I now yield to someone who I know, coming from the State of Wisconsin, has a great deal of experience in this area, my good friend, the gentlelady from Wisconsin, Ms. Gwen Moore.

Thank you so much. I just want to say both my friend, Congresswoman Moore and my friend, Congressman Holt, have basically put into context the fact that any time you have to jump over a hurdle or pay to get something to vote, it is a poll…

I thank you. And now you can see why in Ohio we are going to defeat everything they bring to us that restricts our right to vote. I would yield to one of my newer colleagues, one who's from a State where the Voting Rights Act was designed…

I thank the gentlelady. I yield to someone who certainly we all know has been so involved in voting rights and a person on whose shoulders I stand, the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. John Lewis.