If anyone has experienced as you all have, the sorrow and devastation after a flood, I think at that point in time we would do anything within our power to prevent it from happening.

The gentleman from Maryland may be interested to know that, in our markup of this resolution, two of our committee members mentioned that they were proud soap box derby champions--Mr. Nolan of Minnesota and Mr. Williams of Texas. They also…

H. Con. Res. 88 authorizes the use of the Capitol Grounds for the annual Greater Washington Soap Box Derby in June. I want to thank the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) for introducing this resolution. He has been a longtime supporter…

In closing, this has been a proud tradition across the Nation, including in Pennsylvania. In fact, in 1975, 11-year-old Karren Stead of Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania, became the first girl to win the All-American Soap Box Derby. Again…

I disagree that the immigration reform that is being discussed here in Congress will have significant effect on the war on drugs.

We are giving the American people this false sense of security that somehow if we bring people out of the shadows everything is fine and dandy.

That is a deal-breaker for me. I can't go any further with this discussion until they can satisfy me that we are going to do those proper background checks.

Now if the President gets his way, the local taxpayers will foot the entire bill.

How do we justify asking the local taxpayer to pay for a problem that was caused by the Federal Government?

How can you justify passing this onto the local taxpayers?

America's infrastructure needs to be fixed, and fixed in a hurry, our roads, bridges.

The only thing he ever planted in America was a bomb.

My colleagues in the House and I are here today to talk about another unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act. We understand there is little appetite in this body to provide fixes to a flawed law. However, we believe that an…

Thank you, Mr. Fitzpatrick. Now I would like to yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent).

May I have a time update, please. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 10 minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman from West Virginia. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson).

I thank the gentleman. I would like to yield to the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. McKinley). Mr. McKINLEY. Thank you, Congressman, for your leadership on this matter. According to Tom Miller, the West Virginia representative to the…

I thank the gentleman from New York. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Stivers).

I would like to yield at this time to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Collins).

I thank the gentlewoman from Kansas. I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Barr).

I thank the gentleman from Ohio. I would like to yield to the gentlewoman from Kansas, Ms. Lynn Jenkins.

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, if you could just imagine the bookkeeping nightmare that these volunteer fire departments would face in determining whether or not the volunteer firefighters have worked 30 hours or not…

Thank you, Mr. Dent. I would like to yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Meehan).

May I have a time update again. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 6 minutes remaining.

Thank you. I would like to yield to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Meadows).