Earl Blumenauer

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer) has 2\1/ 2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent) has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I want to express my appreciation for my colleague and my constituent, Ron Wyden, who has worked really hard.

I do agree wholeheartedly with my friend Mr. McDermott, who had a litany of horrors about NAFTA.

I think the transparency, I think having these objectives spelled out--they may not be everything that everybody wants.

I want to thank the committee for your tireless efforts on behalf of the foreign nationals who worked with us in the theater of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The rhetoric about somehow this is a system that is bankrupt and is not going to be there for our young people I think is bogus.

I do not want to have a broad brush indictment for them not doing anything since 1994.

I appreciate your reference to Congress not hollowing out the IRS so that we can actually administer programs.

I appreciate that not all the 14--or the 12 countries are on the same page, environmentally.

This is a huge reason why we have lost manufacturing jobs in this country.

I think it would be helpful--it would help every single Member here, and I think we ought to just clear that way.

President Ronald Reagan... made an appeal that when Congress came back he wanted them to more than double the gas tax.

It might be time for us to raise the gas tax and fund our infrastructure.

I would argue that there may be something that the panel did not address that is tied to this that actually can have an opportunity to bring people together.

``Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the…

Just squeaking under the wire, and I am not going to do a George Miller imitation, talking over the Speaker and pounding the lectern, nor am I going to try and repeat what has come before us in terms of talking about the legendary…

Part of the issue is that there is an opportunity to coax more value.

This bill is not going to be enacted into law, and we will be able to pick up where it left off and, frankly, where Mr. Camp left off, as we work with our friends in the other body. My friend and fellow Oregonian, Senator Wyden, the Chair…

May I inquire as to the remaining time? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Latham). The gentleman from Oregon has 5\1/4\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Michigan has 11 minutes remaining.

I agree with the people who build and maintain and use our transportation infrastructure. We should address this infrastructure question head on. American infrastructure used to be the best in the world and a point of pride, bringing…

Let me just say, there is an excellent report from the Congressional Research Service on this subject that makes clear that it is not illegal or in violation of contract law. The argument is very sustainable. And it is not the oil company…

Some of this does sound condescending I will say, or not allowing you to answer questions.

The budget, if this Congress in its wisdom, my Republican colleagues are cutting your budget.

I appreciate the fact that you are managing, or attempting to, 90,000 employees.