I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. This is a 5-minute…

I am opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Clyburn moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4909 to the Committee on Armed Services with instructions to…

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. This amendment would fight discrimination in the military…

Make no mistake about it: a vote against this motion is a vote to continue flying the Confederate battle flag and allow discrimination at a military college. I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney), my good friend.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3004, a bill that makes a technical change to the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act. Gullah/Geechee is a blend of African and European language…

The right to cast an unfettered vote is central to our democracy. When the United States Supreme Court invalidated key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it invited Congress to update the formula that determines which jurisdictions…

I subscribe to your theory that seems to be based upon one of my favorite writers, George Santayana, who once wrote if we fail to learn the lessons of our history we are bound to repeat them.

There is something fundamentally unfair about that. It seems to be almost inhuman.

We may run out of money before we reach all of the hard-hit areas, but we know where they are.

Now, there is no way in the world these people are going to be adequately addressed under current appropriations.

Because in spite of how we may argue this issue, I am a firm believer that we are going to have more of these disasters going forward.

we put them up in a one-stop facility.

Sometimes, often times, we confuse the words 'duplicate' and 'supplement.' Now, when you are supplementing you aren't duplicating.

I am very, very concerned about that, and I would hope that as we go forward with this--because these lives that were lost, these 19 lives, they were not resisting leaving.

Is it possible to set up one-stop?

Following the horrific murder of nine of my constituents during their Bible study class at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, many Members of this body came to Charleston to help celebrate the life and legacy of Reverend Senator…

I would like, first of all, to thank the Speaker of this House and the other Members who came to Charleston last month to help us with the ongoing ceremonies for Senator Clementa Pinckney. I would also like to thank especially my…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 13, noes 402, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 424] AYES--13 Bass Blumenauer Boyle, Brendan F. Castro (TX) Doggett…

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Head Start, a wonderful success story that empowered 32 million children in America. Unfortunately, the future of Head Start today stands in grave peril due to the misplaced priorities of the…

I want to join my friend and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, G.K. Butterfield, in offering condolences to the parents and family members of Freddie Gray. I also want to say to Ms. Toya Graham that I feel and can appreciate her…

If we are, in fact, about to entertain the MOX amendment, I would love to speak in opposition to that amendment.

As I said, I oppose this amendment. I do so because I really believe that this amendment would endanger our national security by making harmful cuts to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility that is located in South Carolina. This…

I want to thank my friend Mr. Jeffries. I visited with the family of Walter Scott. I attended his funeral; and, not long after the services were over, I was approached by two women who identified themselves as mothers of two young men who…

I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 216. I yield back the balance of my time.

If each one of our 12 bills just followed that simple 10-20-30 formula, we would begin to address this issue of poverty.