Bill Flores

This has been a much weaker recovery than we had in the early 1980s.

This has been a markedly weaker recovery.

So the lady on the corner that owns the dry cleaning store, when she has her taxes increased dramatically, is going to hire as many people and invest as much in the economy and continue with her expansion plans that she had prior to that…

So, I mean, under that line of thinking, what you do is you raise the taxes to 100 percent on high-income people, and then spend all their money on government contracts.

This is what the $150 million is going to go for. This is a bunch of federal bureaucracies to carry out an Executive order that this Congress never approved. This is not about stopping Sandy relief, this is not about putting roofs back…

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 Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Runyan The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

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 3, line 7, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $150,000,000)''. Page 3, strike lines 18…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for his remarks, but this program is designed and was changed beginning with the Obama administration to fund Executive Order 13547. If you go to the NOAA budget request, it says, ``The Regional Ocean…

``The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such…

Our Nation is on the verge of going over a fiscal cliff because Washington has a spending problem. President Obama still does not understand this problem as he has recently issued an executive order granting pay increases to most civilian…

This is the second consecutive year that I have had the privilege to congratulate a Heisman Trophy winner from one of the two universities in the 17th Congressional District of Texas. Today, I want to congratulate Johnny Manziel of Texas…

America recently lost another hero in the war on terror. On September 28, America lost Army Sergeant First Class Riley G. Stephens of Tolar, Texas. Riley grew up in Tolar. He enlisted as an infantryman in the Army in 1993. He volunteered…

the veterans come first, and I could care less about bureaucrats.

I never would have tolerated, I never would have participated in an organization that had a culture like this.

If employees are properly disciplined because they don't exercise the proper amount of gray matter in making a decision, then the other employees are not damaged.

A vet sees the VA as the VA, all of it, whether it is wasting money on a Dash Dawson video or whether it is spending millions of dollars to go to Orlando.

I thank Chairman Smith for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of my Texas colleagues who has just become the oldest known Member of the House of Representatives to cast a recorded vote on the House floor. And I applaud…

Thank all of you for agreeing to testify today to help the Committee understand these important issues.

We have veterans committing suicide in shameful numbers.

The current system is broken and in need of a major overhaul.

We need to come up with solutions that put veterans first, and this is what the VA is not doing enough of.

We need to get this right so that no claims are languishing.

I would like to thank my friend from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) for allowing me a few minutes of his time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize an American hero, Brian Bachmann, who served as Precinct 1 Constable of Brazos County, Texas, who…

This is not a trivial hearing, in light of the Administration's lack of transparency.

One of the things that we need to know about the IG's investigation, and one of the things the American public needs to know about the IG's investigation is, was the scope so inherently reduced that the report is not worth the paper it is…