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 Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Peters The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I want to thank the ranking member for yielding time. This bill amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980, which requires agencies to engage in so much analysis and in so many new procedures that it basically befuddles the agencies in…

Thank you. H.R. 527, like H.R. 3010, which we will also consider this week, is simply a wolf in sheep's clothing. What proponents seem to describe as commonsense revisions to current law actually would result in a dramatic overhaul of the…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia. I appreciate his statement, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Because the due process question is particularly important for small businesses who are not necessarily in a position to advocate on their behalf that there would be a due process violation.

We agree that not only do you have the power but the means should be provided to the states.

I also rise in support of this bipartisan proposal that provides two small, technical fixes to our country's immigration laws. The bill removes the so-called ``per-country'' limits from applying to employment-based green cards. Current…

This past week, I joined with Congressman Lloyd Doggett and with many other Democratic colleagues to introduce the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act. If Congress fails to pass this bill by the end of the year, Americans who…

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 Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 8 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The Acting…

Before I came to Congress, I was a member of the Tennessee Senate for probably an inordinate amount of years before I graduated to this august body. It took me 24 years to matriculate. But during those 24 years, I worked on much important…

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 6, line 14, after the period insert the following: ``Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Based on your argument, you would think that the state that the laws of the 37 States have that limit gun permits to people that are 21 should be abolished. Why does your legislation not go further and…