I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. This is a 5-minute…

I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Cartwright moves to recommit the bill H.R. 806 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to report the same…

The Ozone Act, or perhaps more accurately, the ``Smoggy Skies Act,'' will put our communities at risk and dangerously harm public health. The delays and exemptions in this act are unprecedented. They will cut critical portions of the Clean…

Here we are dealing with some amount of irony with H.R. 1215. The year 1215 was the year the Magna Carta was signed, something that created the seeds of the American right to jury trial, for Heaven's sake. You know, we were pleased to hear…

I thank the leadership and Chairman Upton for bringing this bill up under suspension today, and I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado for yielding me the time. I thank the entire Energy and Commerce Committee, which, once again, voted…

My colleagues have already done a good job of talking in great detail about why this bill is really a festival of bad choices, of wrong choices for America, but I want to focus on one issue in particular: executive pay. This ``Wrong''…

MEP centers need Federal support because they serve manufacturers that are too small to attract private sector investment.

This is the first time in the history of the NSF that we are talking about reducing the budget, 11 percent lower than the previous year.

the proposed fiscal year 2018 budget includes a 27.4 percent reduction for the Risk and Resilience Initiative overall.

I am particularly concerned about the proposed cuts to NASA's climate science programs.

while the administration's general position on the cause of our changing climate flies in the face of science, we can agree that the Earth is warming and extreme weather events are occurring with more frequency.

I am proud to be the lead Democrat on a bill called the Reclaim Act... that would inject $1 billion to benefit those communities.