I thank the chairman. I rise in strong support of my amendment to renew a 1-year ban on the Obama administration from using any Department of Defense funds to implement the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. This amendment updates and…

I thank the gentlewoman. Madam Speaker, this is a very commonsense bill, H.R. 36, which is being presented by my colleague Mr. Franks from Arizona. Why do we have to do this? I am going to tell you something. It is because scientific…

Last month, our world bid farewell to Ed Mead, a former president, copublisher, editor, columnist, and all-around legend of the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pennsylvania, a paper founded by his grandfather in 1888. Mr. Mead leaves behind an…

I thank the chairman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to sit and listen to the rhetoric. I think sometimes if you drink the purple Kool-Aid long enough, you start to believe it. That chart is a great chart that was…

I thank the chairman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1026, as has been described, this actually had come before Congress before. Dr. Boustany and Mr. Roskam have presented this. This is about taxpayer knowledge of IRS…

I agree with everything my colleagues have said. I think Americans need to look at what is going on in their House--America's House--today and to understand that we do understand the difference between right and wrong. We also understand…

I thank the gentleman. We rise today. Really, this is not so much a doc fix as a senior fix. And while our lives are usually defined by wins and losses, I would think that really in our lives we remember the losses far more than we…

I am just asking our friends on the other side, let's think about what is good for the people we represent and not what is just good for the moment. We have always done this in the past. It has only become a problem now because it is not a…

I could not be in better or more agreement with you. I have watched for 6 years--an opportunity in a country with the greatest assets in the world--watched our working class, our middle-income people, our lower-income people suffer the…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak very well about H.R. 641, the Conservation Easement Incentive legislation. I get confused sometimes by the discussion on the floor. If I understand it, if you do it for a year or 2…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Keystone XL pipeline. It is going to create 42,000 jobs. By the way, those jobs that you are talking about that will be part-time, I guarantee you the Department of Labor…

I thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker, make no mistake about what this debate is about. H.R. 7 codifies that no taxpayer money would be given for abortions. But the real debate on the floor today is about life. We are talking about life in…