Today is day 1,000; 1,000 days since the Senate Democrats last passed a budget. To put that in perspective, I asked my Twitter followers and my Facebook friends to tell me what they've done in the last 1,000 days. I'd like to share some of…

Hypocrisy is nothing new in the House of Congress, unfortunately, and even in this House. My good friend from Colorado talks about what we're doing on the right-hand side. There's no question, however, that Mr. Polis himself voted for the…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 515 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 515 Resolved, That a motion to proceed with regard to a joint resolution of…

I find it quite interesting to hear Mr. Polis, who sounds like a good Republican over there, I must concede, sounds like a good Republican over there talking about excessive spending. But here's the question, the Democratic-controlled…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

I do remember that the Paul Ryan budget came in at a number of $1.19 trillion in overall spending for the annual year. If you're talking about the 10-year impact of the Paul Ryan budget-- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman…

The Budget Control Act of 2011, which was enacted into law on August 2, 2011, authorized increases in the administration's borrowing authority subject to a joint resolution of disapproval. The law provides for consideration of a joint…

No, sir, but I yield 3 minutes to my good friend from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson).

One of the comments by my good friend, Mr. Polis from Colorado, was that Republicans were trying to end Medicare. That's a laughable comment. As a matter of fact, it is so laughable that hot off the press, the PolitiFact, which finds out…

House Resolution 502 provides for a motion to go to conference on H.R. 3630 and for a closed ruled on H. Res. 501. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this rule and the underlying bill. {time} 0920 To be honest, Mr. Speaker, being here…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I'm not quite sure if I heard the gentlelady from New York correctly, but she seemed to allude, or to suggest, that the President might not pass the omnibus bill because of this bill, which sounds…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 502 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 502 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order…

I enjoy listening to my friends on the left talk about how they need to get on our side and stop the tax increases. But the funny problem is that the American people may like what they say, but they don't like what they do. I would only…

There is no doubt the American people are afraid. They're afraid of the party on the left. They're afraid because the party on the left raided $500 billion out of Medicare to pay for a national health care Ponzi scheme. They're afraid…

I will just simply say that if you are looking for a bipartisan approach to legislation, if you are looking for someone who wants to work with the White House, 90 percent of our offsets have been agreed to by the President. And I will…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter), pending which I yield myself as much time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution…

Thank you, Dr. Foxx. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit for the Record the following email from Mr. Lafe Solomon, acting chief counsel of the NLRB. The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva and I get a job with airbus. We screwed…

Thank you, Dr. Foxx. The new rule also makes it impossible for anyone to challenge the bargaining unit chosen by the union, dividing employees and raising employers' labor costs. We stand here today with an opportunity. We can either allow…

Thank you, Dr. Foxx. In an effort to appease the President and his union supporters, the NLRB has gone off the tracks and begun proposing harmful rules, left, right, up, down. It is ridiculous. One of these rules is why we're here today…

It simply doesn't make sense. We should get this work done. We should get this fixed today. I will say as part of the majority-making class of 2010, with 86 out of the 87 freshmen on the Republican side supporting some form of the balanced…

Let me first thank Sheriff Nugent from Florida. Sheriff, you're doing a fantastic job with this rule, and I thank you for leading this important debate. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask a simple question of my friends who oppose the whole…

We find ourselves at a place where we should have been at for many, many months, and that is working in a bipartisan way to save American jobs. Mr. Speaker, it is amazing that we have this opportunity to have the President's support with…

I would just encourage my friends on the left who want to raise taxes, raise taxes if you can, but the bottom line is that raising revenues does not make you more responsible, does not make you use the revenues that you currently have more…

House Resolution 448 provides for a closed rule for the consideration of H.R. 674, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government…

It's odd that as the American people continue to watch Congress asking for a bipartisan approach to what we do here, it's very odd for us to find ourselves in that position today saying to the American people, we are finally on the right…