I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

Yesterday in Hanoi, under a giant bronze statue of Ho Chi Minh, the President of the United States announced that he was formally rescinding our country's decades-long prohibition on the sale of military equipment to the Socialist Republic…

I have an amendment at the desk. I indicated before, I have had my say. We are going to go through the motions on the next three. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike page 65, lines 12-20. The…

Is it possible, with the approval of the gentleman who is controlling the time for the majority, to combine amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 into a single amendment? The CHAIR. The amendments could be considered together by unanimous consent.

I have an amendment to the amendment. The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is under recognition.

I have had my say. I move approval. I reserve the balance of my time.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike page 65, line 21 through page 66, line 3. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 736, the gentleman from South Carolina and…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Military…

I have an amendment at the desk, No. 4. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike page 66, line 4-11. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 736, the gentleman from South Carolina and a Member…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Military…

Parliamentary inquiry. The CHAIR. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

That was the quickest 25 pages I have heard in a long time. Amendment Offered by Mr. Mulvaney

I have an amendment at the desk. Actually, I have four consecutive amendments at the desk.

I have four consecutive amendments that are all very closely intertwined. There are actually four simply for procedural matters that I offered originally as one. I am going to argue all of them together essentially at one time because this…

How much time do I have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina has 1 minute remaining.

It is hard to argue with that. This money is going for counterterrorism. It is going for the preposition of assets. It is going for reassuring our allies. It is going to combat Mr. Putin or constrain him in Ukraine. I am a little hard…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Military…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: TITLE V GENERAL…

It strikes me as not being fair. In fact, it reminds me... of something that many of us in the Class of 2010 ran against.

Twelve of these 12 CO-OPs have failed. I think it has cost taxpayers so far about $2.4 billion.

Consumers have lost $1.2 billion in the failed CO-OPs, and I don't think it is fair to anyone that we just sit around and not have hearings like this.

As this year stands, it looks like now, when they revise the last quarter's numbers, which they will do here shortly, 2015 will be the tenth year in a row without 3 percent growth in the American economy. If that turns out to be the case…

Put them so we can see both of them at the same time, please. That is stunning. So between 2021 and 2025, we are going to have the Social Security disability fund go broke----

Last time we fixed the Social Security disability--I am making the air quotations when I say fixed disability--by robbing from old-age retirement. Where are we going to rob from the next time when we have both Medicare and Social Security…

The real frustrating thing about it, Mr. Schweikert, is that the demographic group that you would hope would be engaged in this topic isn't. When you go home and you and I and Mr. Perry talk to our folks back home, who is most interested…