I appreciate your candor. I appreciate your participation. I especially appreciate your forthrightness.

So people who have invested in getting on the Schedule, let us not divide that market up by adding 50 more people.

I would like to thank everybody in advance for being here.

Can you make yourself easier to do business with or help us understand how to do business?

We are actually pulling in the same direction on this. All we are interested in is making sure that small businesses are having every opportunity that we can give them.

Helping them understand where the government is not going to be buying, where it would be a waste of their time and money to come into the program.

When I was campaigning for this job 2 years ago, one of the things that I told folks back home I would do if I ever got here was to try and roll back discretionary spending to 2008 levels. One of the things I've done since I've been here…

Very briefly, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman from Indiana's words. I would point out to him, Mr. Chairman, that there are those of us on this side of the aisle that have encouraged us to look at defense spending as ways to cut…

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 South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. (a) Each amount made available by this Act…

Did GM go bankrupt after the auto bailout?

Did Chrysler go bankrupt in April of 2009?

I think that is an advance over where we were probably 2 years ago when one side was saying, let's do something about the deficit, and the other side was saying, let's not worry about the deficit.

We can't just agree that we are going to have to do something and then not actually do something.

We have requirements, Mr. Chairman, that we have to purchase a certain amount now of our energy from renewable resources.

I thank the gentleman from Texas. This is not, Mr. Speaker, the most glamorous thing we're going to do in this 112th Congress. If you stop to think about it, there are not that many people who are aware of, let alone care about, what kind…

You are here because you have asked us to be here. You have brought this on yourselves.

I will be honest with you. On several levels this hearing has been very difficult for me to sit and watch.

I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, in my office, as we all do, we get emails, from time to time, from constituents, viral emails alleging, from time to time, some type of violent fraud in the system or some type of bizarre…

This amendment, ladies and gentlemen, is fairly simple and straightforward, but it bears discussion for a few moments. It requires the bill to expire of its own terms within 5 years. It's what we call in this business a sunset clause. And…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 10, after line 10 insert the following: ``(4) Notification of non-cyber threat information.--If a…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, I appreciate the opportunity to rise today to speak in favor to this amendment to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. CISPA is fundamentally based on the authority…

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 South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Flake The Acting CHAIR. It…

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 South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 5 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The…

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, add the following new section: SEC. 3. SUNSET. Effective on the date that is five…