Mr. Speaker, it is very rare that you have a constituent who reaches the century mark, but I have one, a young lady named Helen Maddox in Arlington, Texas, who will be celebrating her 100th birthday later this week. Helen was not born a…

Representative Grace Meng and I have been working closely on H.R. 3670 to modernize the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009.

About 40 percent of all the jobs created in the U.S. since 2001 have been in the State of Texas.

I support the rights of States to have energy policies, but if you look at my home State of Texas, we have the highest economic growth in the country.

Well, we say in Texas that we have created more jobs in the last 10 years than the rest of the country combined.

I think it is important, as the Republican side, to emphasize that we support the rights of States to have energy policies.

I have two pieces of legislation being discussed that I have been working diligently on: H.R. 3670, the Anti-Spoofing Act of 2014, and the LPTV and Translator Preservation Act of 2014.

Due to the many conversations that we have had with various stakeholders, it would be my intention that this bill does go to markup to offer an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

I do appreciate the opportunity. There are two bills that I have been actively engaged with that are the subject of this markup today.

This is a commonsense bill. It really is.

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Virginia, the full committee chairman, and I would like to enter into a little bit of a colloquy. I am an original cosponsor. I certainly want to prevent taxation of the Internet, but as you know…