Before I yield to my colleague from New Hampshire, I just want to point out that we're not quite understanding the bill here on the other side because we do allow the FCC to maintain flexibility where necessary. The bill only requires the…

I've never heard a finer defense of a broken bureaucratic process than I've just heard. Let me point out that the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners--now, these are the folks who stand up for consumers and…

On behalf of Mr. Diaz-Balart, I have an amendment I am going to offer. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 19, after line 13, insert the following (and redesignate…

Throughout the course of the debate today on the floor we'll have amendments offered by Republicans and Democrats, a total of potentially 10. This is one offered by my colleague from Florida (Mr. Diaz-Balart), which we will be supportive…

I appreciate the work we've done with the people involved in this, and we agree to it, and we accept the amendment as well. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment, as modified, offered by…

H.R. 3523 makes commonsense changes to the way our government and the private sector share cyber intelligence.

I have some reservations concerning giving government agencies like Department of Homeland Security authority for overseeing or implementing the standards.

Congressman Schrader recently joined together with Congressman Peter DeFazio and Congressman Greg Walden to release the 'O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act.'

I rise again to support this legislation. Once again, we're reading about how troubled the economy is. This is the weakest recovery since the Great Depression. It is certainly the kind of economy we all want to improve. The underlying…

I thank Mr. Camp, and I want to thank the gentleman from Michigan for his extraordinary leadership in pulling the House and the Senate together as chairman of our conference. One of the key elements of this legislation is freeing up an…

Given the state of our Nation's finances, I think it is time to call all hands on deck.

Thank you for your testimony. I appreciate your testimony and the work you that you are doing to try and continue to improve and reduce fraud and deal with all that.

We have an obligation as a subcommittee to review the budgets and spending activities of every agency under our jurisdiction.

Despite the groans and droopy eyelids, some of us were up pretty late last night negotiating on the final spectrum fees and the big fees.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to just address a couple of points. First of all, my dear friend from New Jersey, when he talks about the Congress bailing out the banks, may want to talk to his colleague from New York…

How much time remains on each side, Mr. Speaker? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon has 13\1/2\ minutes. The gentleman from New York has 10\1/2\ minutes.

I'm going to reclaim my time because you actually have time, and you might want to get some yielded on that. The point is, the discussion we are having right now is on how to pay for it. That is the discussion we are having with the…

May I ask how much time remains on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon has 21 minutes remaining. The gentleman from New York has 17\1/2\ minutes remaining.

In reclaiming my time, I don't disagree with that. I didn't support some of those bailouts either, although I did vote to make sure their financial system didn't collapse. My point is we faced some tough problems. We actually got over the…

No, I won't, not at this moment. Don't leave. I'll get to you. I've got to finish this because this is the problem with the dysfunctional nature of what happened here in Congress 2 years ago, which then, when we took the majority in…

Wait a minute. I've got a couple of other things I was going to share with you first. So that's what the House passed; right? What we got back from the Senate was the 2-month short-term that we're all upset about. Because I agree with you…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, we've seen this motion to instruct before; and it calls on the conferees, of which I'm a member, to act, and to do so by February 17, I believe is the date that's been suggested. We…

To set the record straight. First of all, my colleague who just spoke, it was his party that raided Medicare as part of the President's health care legislation by $500 billion. That's a fact. Now, when he says that my party ended Medicare…

I would like to just point out a couple of things so we get on the same terms here. I was actually here until the 23rd day of December, as were the Republicans appointed to be conferees. I don't know that Leader Pelosi had appointed…

I think this has been a good, thoughtful, and lively debate because I think we've been able to show each other, through you, Mr. Speaker, the fact that the House did its work. House Republicans put forward a proposal to extend unemployment…