I have listened over the years to my good friend from Virginia, my friend from New York, and Mr. Smith from Washington advance this issue. I think maybe now is the time for us to address this, if only as a going-away present. Because this…

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 Virginia will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Sec. 412. None…

We have challenges in the United States with the notion of how we are going to protect American-flagged ships, the capacity to be able, in times of national emergency, to provide the transport services that we need. I have been a supporter…

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…

Last night it was my honor to be in the audience as Lincoln High School from Portland, Oregon, won the national Constitution competition. This is a terrific program. The We the People competition has been going on since 1987. It has…

And I do appreciate what you and our Ranking Member have done in terms of moving forward with this and setting the stage for it, and I share both the sense of the urgency and the potential of doing something.

I couldn't agree more with Congressman Johnson about getting the flipping numbers off the Social Security card.

the initial bill mirrored the Federal bill introduced by Congressman Earl Blumenauer and would have moved neonicotinoids to a restricted use pesticide

The Republican budget flies in the face of the reality of their own budget. It does nothing to deal with the very real, looming crisis of Social Security. They are afraid to inflict their Medicare solution on the seniors that vote today…

I yield myself 2 minutes. I do appreciate the back-and-forth discussion here, but I want to put this in perspective, if I could, because our friends with the Republican budget have assumed, for instance, that we don't necessarily have to…

Just so I understand, the majority has consumed 34 minutes? The CHAIR. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 34 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Oregon has 32 minutes remaining.

Instead of wasting more time on a budget that is going nowhere, we should come together to address our failing bridges, roads, and water system. Our future demands it, our constituents expect no less. I strongly urge the rejection of the…

At this point, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlelady from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), a distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee.

I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy in yielding me time. As I am sitting on the floor listening to the back and forth and the division, I was thinking back to a time when there was consensus in this body on important investments for our…

Last week, Attorney General Holder said that he would be happy to work with Congress to reexamine how marijuana is scheduled under Federal statutes. That is a thoughtful effort, but I hope the Attorney General realizes that the time for…

So they are conjuring up a problem here that--maybe people will use it as an excuse for things that they want to do. But nobody is forced to do this at this point. It is not going to take effect for years. Their proposed solution to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I understand my friend and colleague from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) was on the floor talking about the disingenuous approach here and the discontinuity between what we are talking about…

Throughout American history, the path to prosperity has been infrastructure. It has been paving that path, building that road, constructing the transcontinental railroad, improving water systems, extending electrification to rural America…

Absolutely. I have really appreciated your laser focus. At the time, you and I both wanted more investment in infrastructure. Something in the neighborhood of 40 percent were tax cuts that people didn't even think they got, that didn't…

I appreciate your detailing the difference it made with that company in your district and the multiplier effect for the employment for the various aspects of that product. It has been exciting for me to look at the range of people who are…

I do want to say that I also appreciate the reference to the economic impact in terms of the men and women who work in this arena. We have millions of tradespeople, men and women in the construction industry who have the necessary skills…

Thank you. Well, I deeply appreciate, again, your partnership and your leadership; and what you just demonstrated, a series of ways that we could have adjustments to transportation finance that would be predictable, sustainable, and, as…

If the gentleman will yield. Like you, I am on the plan going home every week. But for a weekend, I was at a conference, and so I missed being home for 10 days. In the space of 10 days, gasoline went up 19 cents a gallon at my corner gas…

I appreciate the gentleman joining us and couldn't agree more about the critical nature of investing in our economy and putting people to work. Millions of jobs are at stake, jobs that won't be outsourced overseas. I appreciate your…

Thank you so much, Representative Titus. It was fascinating, when we visited with your constituents, how passionate they were identifying the problems; and I commend you for working with them to try to squeeze what you could out of…