David Cicilline

I look forward to hearing your testimony and really learning how we can continue to improve this process.

Just very quickly, the purpose is not, of course, to overly burden State governments but, instead, to respect the judgments and decisions they've made in weighing the equities and making determinations as to what is the right criteria, to…

We lose the opportunity to show people all over the world the power of democracy.

The challenge is that it is not that they come here to study at the great universities...but we actually kick them out.

I think, like many Members of Congress, am very concerned about the capability and the capacity and really the corruption

I think we have a lot of financing tools that were designed during a different age of industrial and manufacturing, and we really need to have this nimbleness in government to be able to respond to this new economy.

I always want to begin my comments about the SBA with recognizing the great director in Rhode Island, Mark Hayward.

Thank you for this opportunity to present testimony in support of H.R. 2027.

Mr. Keating's amendment makes it very clear that that cannot happen in this provision of the bill.

My amendment would allow the United States to continue supporting UNFPA in their critical efforts to end the practice of female genital cutting.

It is absolutely a pro-child amendment.

I am strongly opposed to this underlying bill, but hope that passage of this amendment will mitigate the detrimental impact of this legislation on women's reproductive health all around the globe.

But if, in fact, it is true, and as it seems to be confirmed by your response to my question, that not a single penny of U.S. taxpayer money is spent in China by UNFPA, that is an important fact.

This bill today would eliminate those programs.

The United States was instrumental in the creation of UNFPA in 1969.

UNFPA does not support the one-child policy of China.

Madam Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this bill.

President Obama has offered the American Jobs Act, a clear path forward to putting our country back to work, helping small businesses succeed and hire and providing tax relief for our workers and rebuilding America. The emphasis of the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Rhode Island will be postponed. Amendment No. 39 Offered by Mr. Clarke of Michigan

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 133, line 6, insert after the dollar amount the following: ``(reduced by $475,000,000)''. Page 161, line 12, insert…

One of the most frustrating parts of that is when you look at the technology that forms the basis of those products, they were developed in large part--sometimes exclusively--by the great scientists and researchers at our great…

I thank the gentleman from California. I think that point cannot be stated often enough, that part of our ability to make it in America, not only manufacture but invent and create and make the new discoveries, is understanding that we need…

I thank the gentlelady. I think the other very important part of that conversation has to be a continued investment in science and research and innovation. A lot of the things you are talking about, kind of new manufacturing, we are going…

I would like to begin our remarks today which will focus on our Make It in America agenda, the agenda that we put together to put the American people back to work to really support manufacturing, and we are going to have a good discussion…

A clear exit plan will stabilize Afghanistan by ending an unpopular presence there and improve our country's flexibility to respond to more immediate and pressing national security challenges, improving our fiscal and economic situation at…