Earl Blumenauer

Representative Earl Blumenauer called it a fake crisis at the border.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division D (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Alaska has 45 seconds remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division C (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

May I inquire the time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining.

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining. {time} 1800

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I think we ought to clarify it one way or the other so the public is out there not breaking Federal law.

There will be no comprehensive cannabis legalization bill that does not include strong equity components.

The Federal Government has been missing in action. They rely on us to do our part, not to do it all for them.

You have a unique opportunity to be at the center of a meaningful, fully funded transportation package and a forward-thinking surface transportation reauthorization that looks at the full range of transportation choices.

I applaud you, Mr. Chairman, for your untiring effort to focus on this funding crisis and the opportunities that will be afforded if we meet it, and I look forward to working with you so we do.

We must fix the destructive provision in the recent tax bill that damages commuter tax benefits, that commuters, businesses, churches, and nonprofits have relied on for decades.

We need to develop a forward-thinking infrastructure bill--and I know that you are working on that--that continues the expansion of the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives program at the State level while also bringing road…

No, insulting to Third World countries.

We need to accelerate the transition to a sustainable program of road user charges over the course of the next 12 years.

We need to have a dedicated water infrastructure trust fund.

I look forward to being your partner on the Ways and Means Committee to invest in infrastructure.

One of the great tragedies of our time is the failure to adequately address the needs of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is a time when an overwhelming number of veterans tell me that cannabis has reduced PTSD symptoms, their dependency on addictive opioids.

We are doing something wrong.

The GOP is going to give us a postcard size tax return, and it would be fun watching our Republican friends in a hearing trying to fill out the postcard size tax return with real life experience.

It would have been nice if this Committee actually had done that rather than ramming something through without benefit of a hearing.

I hope we can explode some of the cartoon arguments about tax policy.

We need to have the ability to do research.