I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee).

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlelady from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) for a unanimous consent request.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the rule and the underlying legislation, the bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. I had the privilege of sitting as one of the budget conferees, and it was an…

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by praising my friend Gregg Harper and my friend Peter Welch, who come to this floor with a very worthy purpose, and that is to redirect government funding toward something that…

I thank my friend, the chairman, for yielding me the time and for her gracious remarks. Mr. Speaker, Native Americans have fought against, with, and for the United States more than any other group of people in the history of our country…

I thank my friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, like every Republican in this Chamber, until 10 days ago, every day I served in the House of Representatives I served with Bill Young. It has been noted here that he was a lion and a legend…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I can agree with parts of what my friends have said, and parts I frankly can't agree with. I have worked in a bipartisan manner across the aisle and with the White House on Native American issues ever…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to address a couple of points that my good friend raises; but before I do, I want to agree with her in that I think we all think the government ought to be open. I, actually…

I want to thank my good friend from New York. She's always a terrific, frankly, counterpoint and debater, and we agree on some things. We both agree that the government shutdown's not a good thing. Frankly, there's a strong bipartisan…

I have some good news I want to announce here just shortly. But I want to note, for the record, my friends quite often make the point that they don't like a piecemeal approach. The reality is, if you look at actions, sometimes they do…

I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. McGOVERN. I thank the gentleman for yielding. My objection with the Republican approach to the SNAP program is that 3.8 million people will lose their benefits, 170,000 veterans would lose…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to my good friend, the gentlelady from Rochester, New York (Ms. Slaughter), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 371 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 371 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

If the gentleman will yield, no, Mr. Chairman, I do not. I would just highly recommend to my friends we do, since it seems to be a good way to resolve our differences.

Yesterday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule for the consideration of 10 different joint resolutions, all of which demonstrate House Republicans' continuing commitment to reopen necessary portions of our government. The rule is a…

Just a quick point. My friend is always quite eloquent, and I know, frankly, very passionate and very well-meaning and very expert when he talks about nutrition programs, where he spent a great deal of time. For the record, it's worth…

We schedule a conference, we go to conference, and we try to negotiate our differences.

Reclaiming my time, the rolls have been going up in a period we're supposed to be recovering. I think we have some genuine problems in this program in terms of reform. Again, that's the initial proposal. It's not out of bounds considering…

We ought to repeal it and get savings across the entire budget. I think that's what we should do.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. As usual, my friend makes a skillful and thoughtful case in defense of the Affordable Care Act. The problem is that the jury is the American people. They're still not convinced. They haven't been…

In reclaiming my time, it's certainly true that we've had multiple proposals to try and limit spending. We walked in with a $1.4 trillion deficit, so we thought maybe we ought to try and bring it down a little bit. Is it the exact form of…

I yield just quickly to the gentleman from Maryland because I'm running low on time, and I do have other speakers.

I certainly wouldn't agree if it yields the cuts, but I think the structure of it is inappropriate, and it's flawed.

No, I will hold my time, but I will yield in a moment. But let's be clear whose idea this was and who has not put a solution on the table. I could go ad nauseam into cuts that did not have to occur in the Defense Department that have…

I yield myself 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have, from time to time, wondered about where the business community is on this issue, so I would like to insert for the Record a letter from the…