Marcy Kaptur

Thank you, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, a long way from Cleveland, for your great service and for sharing your memories of our beloved friend, Congressman Louis Stokes. General Leave

I just want to place on the record that our Glass- Steagall bill to essentially break up the big banks and take the investment side of the operation away from the prudent banking portion of it is H.R. 381. We have over 60 cosponsors of our…

I thank the gentleman very much, and I thank the ranking member. I yield to the gentlewoman from Minnesota. Ms. McCOLLUM. The gentlewoman from Ohio has my commitment to work with the chairman to resolve it.

I would like to make a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Holding). The gentlewoman from Ohio will state her parliamentary inquiry.

I want to thank Congresswoman Pingree of Maine for her efforts here this evening and for her dedication to renewable energy, including in the tidal arena. I yield back the balance of my time. Amendment Offered by Mr. Abraham

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes.

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 Texas will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Dent

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Foxx). The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes.

Could I just ask for clarification? Which of your amendments are you addressing in your arguments now? It was our understanding the gentleman was addressing the MOX facility. Are you addressing that or your prior amendment?

I would just say to the offerer of the amendment from Texas that I come from a part of the country where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not do its job for a long time. I appreciate what you are attempting to do, and all I would say…

We will have more coal-fired utilities shut down in Ohio than almost any other State, so I identify with what the gentleman is saying. Frankly, I think that we, as a country, have to be much more responsive to our miners and to coal…

I have no further requests for time, so I yield back the balance of my time in the interests of moving forward with the bill.

I also appreciate the Members bringing this to our attention, having visited more than one of these facilities and look forward to working with the chairman to support this very worthy activity.

I would like to yield 30 seconds to myself to just thank the gentlewoman very much for her comments and to say how very much I enjoyed visiting the Berkeley lab with her out in California and knowing the work that they are doing not just…

I would like to inquire of the Chair, how much time do we have remaining on this side, please? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio has 22 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Idaho has 26 minutes remaining.

The political reality of Iraq has created a very unbalanced situation.

I was not one of those Members of Congress who tried to hold up the Department of Homeland Security or shut it down.

Does anyone else on the panel wish to comment on this? No?

I have to believe Ohio would be at the top of the list of States where coal-fired utilities have shut down.

Does this also include a focus on communities and places where coal-fired utilities have closed down, or just where coal is mined?

On coal, I was very happy to see the President's budget include investing in coal communities.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman Burns, on the issue of the continued storage of spent nuclear fuel...

I really think some of these folks that helped us 25 years ago or more, they are still alive.

I just think that there should be something initiated that acknowledges their importance and recognizes it when they do something great.

I ask that our vast Midwest industrial heartland region not be excluded for alternative passenger rail service pilot programs, opportunities for rail investment, station improvements, and historic preservation, nor for public-private…