If I am buying real estate in New York, I will listen to the President of the United States. If I am asking about infectious diseases, I am going to listen to Tony Fauci.

this is something that maybe State and local governments need to be looking at, not that I am calling for any decrease in what we do, but maybe they need to be doing a little bit more themselves.

And we all think the American people and, frankly, all of humanity have benefited enormously as a result of those investments.

I want to thank you, I want to thank the professionals at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.

I commend you, honestly, for trying to think through different ways to deal with that.

I want to thank the Speaker for her kind and thoughtful remarks. I also want to acknowledge--I am going to follow her example. I think we should keep our mask on when we are doing our normal business but take them off when we are speaking…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms. Plaskett).

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Bass).

I want to thank my good friend, Mr. McGovern, the distinguished chairman of the House Rules Committee, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Madam Speaker, let me quickly respond to my friend's mention about the group that will work on…

For a quick response to my friend. I recall that we requested oversight committees for TARP. That was not allowed by then-Speaker Pelosi. We requested oversight committees for the stimulus package in 2009. That, too, was not agreed to by…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Fudge).

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark), my good friend.

So, today, Madam Speaker, I call on all Members to vote ``no'' on this rule. I ask that my colleagues, regardless of party, reject this rigged process, reject this rule, and act to protect the rights of every Member of this Chamber. The…

I thank the gentlewoman from Arizona, my good friend, for yielding time. And frankly, I want to associate myself with her remarks about the underlying legislation. My remarks, Madam Speaker, will focus on the manner in which the bills that…

Although Rep. Tom Cole and Rep. Betty McCollum championed an amendment to strike this provision from the NDAA, no amendments were allowed to the NDAA and no further debate or consideration could be made.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute vote on passage of the bill. The vote was taken…

I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Cole moves to recommit the bill H.R. 5687 to the Committee on Appropriations. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant…

I want to associate myself very much with the remarks of the chairman and the ranking member on concerns just about the procurement process and, you know, constantly making maybe perfect the enemy of the good.

I want to thank my good friend, Dr. Burgess, for yielding. I rise, Madam Speaker, in reluctant opposition, quite frankly, to both the rule and the underlying legislation. As my good friend, Chairman McGovern knows, we have actually worked…

Passing this resolution, as my good friend Dr. Burgess suggested, sends the wrong message to the wrong people at precisely the wrong time. The President did the right thing here. He has acted in a restrained manner. He has endured, and our…

I advise my friend I am prepared to close whenever she is. In the interim, I will reserve if she has more speakers.

No, I won't yield. I want to yield to another speaker in a moment. You are the one who raised the issue, so I am just going back to the numbers. The numbers here are pretty clear. This is a targeted tax cut for wealthy people in a very few…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 227, nays 196, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll No. 698]…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adoption of the…