It really comes down to this. We are at a crossroads in this country. We have to present really bold visions of where we think the country should be going. We need to talk about policies that are going to make America stronger. We need to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I, too, would like to add my thanks for the passion and the commitment he has made to the right-to-life movement and the protection of the unborn--both he and his wife--not just here in the United…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support. This is one of the things that I think really makes us a little bit different. It is about certainty. And where I am from, there is an old saying: If you don't know…

I thank the gentleman for his contribution. I mean, it really does come down to, well, tonight we are talking about energy and we are talking about setting targets and timetables that will be very expensive for hardworking American…

I think tonight is a great night for us all to get together. While we are very concerned about the cost to American taxpayers and the fact that we will be going away from our fossil fuels, which are so abundant, so accessible and so…

I would tell you this, and I think if there is anything more telling of the view that this administration has, all you have to do is go back in time to March of 2015 this year when Josh Earnest, who represents the White House in all the…

You and I don't just talk this; we walk it. We have actually gone into the mines with these people. You and I have seen communities that have been shut down, not just mines that have been shut down--communities that have been shut down…

I would like to pursue an energy agenda that maybe makes sense for America, a AAA strategy of energy, to reach self-sustainability and secure America's economic future. While we all agree on an all-of-the-above strategy, let's not turn…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, I stand in strong support of H.R. 1737, and I will tell you why. It is because it is what I have done and what my family has done for almost 60 years. We are a third-generation automobile dealer. I can…

I thank the gentleman. Madam Chair, I am fascinated. I have been here for 5 years. And the fact is that people who don't have any idea about how a business is run are constantly telling people how to run their business; they are people who…

I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Speaker, I was in my office watching the debate, and I thought, well, if I really thought I was innocent, if I really thought there was nothing that really went with what the other side is claiming, if I really…

I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Speaker, I would just ask all Members, not as Republicans and not as Democrats, but as members of the human race, and for a House that just abhors what is going on around the world and saying that this is…

I stand before you today not as a Republican and not as a Member of this House, but as a fellow human being, and I wonder: How did we get to this point? How do we somehow compromise in our mind what it is that we are talking about today? I…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, this is a horrible deal. In any deal, you never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. Let me give you a contrast between what two Presidents say when they talk about deals. President Obama has…

I stand before you today not to speak for Republicans, but to speak for America. When 80 percent of the American people say ``no'' to this deal, how can America's House, how can we who have been elected by the American people, come here…

It is about time. Time is running out. I think right now we look at what is happening in coal country and nothing could be more alarming than what is happening. This is one promise the President kept. When he ran as a candidate, he said…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in this House, we have a duty to legislate based on truth, not fiction. We cannot afford to be uneducated, uninformed, or untruthful when it comes to PTA. Maybe the problem is we labeled it…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, Thomas Jefferson once opined: The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate. Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own…

It is my great pleasure to congratulate not one, but two Pennsylvania State champion baseball teams from the Third Congressional District. The Neshannock High Lancers and Knoch High Knights capped off historic seasons last week to take…

My amendment increases the authorized funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership by $5 million and it offsets it by decreasing the authorized funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by $5 million, for…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 71, line 21, strike ``$933,700,000'' and insert ``$938,700,000''. Page 72, line 6, strike…

I would just remark that if we are really trying to create jobs, if we are really trying to boost our economy, if we are really trying to do all these things, if we are really trying to help small manufacturers, I don't think that asking…

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…