I would ask you to avoid cuts in the future, but also to look at ways that we can invest in a partnership through the labs with the fishing men and women and the fishing industry, not just in Rhode Island but all through the Northeast.

my intent is to change this so that we put more resources into the SRF than your budget calls for.

I want to express my disappointment frankly.

Can you tell us when you anticipate finalizing the volumes of 2014, and will they be increased to encourage more biodiesel?

We worked awfully hard, Senator Murkowski and I, to ensure that there were adequate resources for EPA facing significant challenges.

My home State of Rhode Island, we have, I think, three times the national average in terms of the sort of presence of radon in homes and other buildings.

we are never going to develop the very technology we need both to produce the energy and get the stewardship--environmental stewardship we want.

Without continued funding, there is a real possibility that the States will not have the budgets.

I voice my strong disagreement with the proposed decreases to the State revolving funds.

I thank the Chair. Mr. President, I rise in strong support of the Paycheck Fairness Act. I would like to first commend the senior Senator from Maryland for her fearless and tireless leadership on this issue. She has been a protean force…

Is this something you are going to insist that they continue through other sources?

Over the last 5 years, the administration has sent up a budget each year, that reduces their request.

it is very critical to my part of the country, your part of the country.

It is just baffling to see the administration ignore this at a time when every part of this Nation... needs plumbing.

Everyone here is talking about jobs because that has to be our number one priority.

In this budget EPA is proposing to eliminate the Beach Act Grant Program.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for joining us. At this point in time, I would like to yield to a good friend of mine from the great State of North Carolina (Mrs. Ellmers).

I can't agree any more with my colleague from Indiana. ``No more.'' It is time. No more excuses. No more across America. Madam Speaker, I am honored to be joined by a great friend from our State of New York (Mr. Gibson), one of the leaders…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois for those very good and eloquent remarks on this important issue of ``no more.'' Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be joined by a Member from the great State of Indiana (Mrs. Walorski), and I yield to her.

I thank the gentlelady for her comments and joining us in this effort to say ``no more.'' The gentlelady's comments about the use of alcohol and other intoxicants being a part of, sometimes, these situations, I can't express enough how…

I thank the gentlelady for coming tonight and joining us and raising awareness on this critical issue facing men and women across the country. I appreciate the gentlelady's words. From the gentlelady's words, I am reminded how pervasive…

I thank my colleagues that have joined me this evening to talk about an issue that is very personal to me and I think something that we need to discuss across America in an open and honest fashion. Madam Speaker, this month, April, is…

I so appreciate the work, leadership, and experience of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Meehan) on this issue. I don't think I could have said it any better in the sense of the victims being victimized repeatedly not just by the…

I thank the gentlelady from West Virginia for her words and offer of support. At this time, Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Costa), a good friend from the other side of the aisle, the cochair of the Victims'…

I thank the gentleman from California for his kind words. What I will say is, it is awareness, education, and empowerment. With that, I yield to the gentleman from Texas, Judge Poe, a good friend and cochair of the Victims' Rights Caucus…