Robert Walker: “I did not ask for a time certain and a date. I asked for something general: Will hearings be held this year?”

The gentleman makes an important point. It is my understanding, for instance, that the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the Committee on Rules specifically asking that the germaneness waiver not be granted…

So the gentleman is telling me that the newspaper story here is wrong, that the Speaker was not saying when he said, ``a concession, that he was not making, a concession that hearings are going to take place.'' He is saying that that is a…

As I understand it, does the amendment not say, ``limitation on activities,'' and, as I understand it, it says: Members of the United States Armed Forces who perform defense services or provide military education and training outside the…

So the Republican budget has health care reform that the President does not have. It has crime reform that the President does not have. It has welfare reform that the President does not have. It has tax relief that the President does not…