John Culberson

The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) is exactly right. We would have accepted this amendment earlier in the process because it is an open process. Anyone has a chance to come down here and offer an amendment in an open and free House of…

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. 3 Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

The gentleman from New York is prepared to withdraw the amendment. We will work together to resolve this problem, so I do claim the time in opposition. I think the gentleman from New York has raised a very valid concern. Certainly we do…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I reserve the balance of my time to hear from my colleague from New York for the purpose of completing the discussion.

I wish to speak in support of the amendment. I strongly support Mr. King's amendment because what the President has done is clearly illegal. The President does not have the ability to change the law by himself. As my good friend from…

I wish to join in opposition to this amendment. I share my colleague's concern about government spending, but two-thirds of the problem is in Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, and in ObamaCare, the national debt, the interest on…

The objection of the gentleman from California (Mr. Costa) to this amendment is that he does not believe current Federal law is good public policy. As a Member of Congress, he has the privilege of filing amendments and filing legislation…

Before I begin--and I will be very brief--I want to make sure to thank the majority staff who have worked so hard on this bill. I want to thank our chief clerk, John Martens; Leslie Albright; Jeff Ashford; Taylor Kelly; Colin Samples; and…

I claim the time in opposition, although I support the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

My colleague, Mr. Engel, I think may not have the exact amendment in front of him because all Mr. Massie is attempting to do is enforce existing law and make it clear that the ATF has to enforce existing law, as written, and that…

We accept the amendment, agree with the reasoning that the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie) has laid forth. I believe the amendment is acceptable to the minority as well. So the amendment is agreed to unanimously. I reserve the balance…

I thank my good friend from Pennsylvania. I do, as he knows, support this amendment because it has become necessary to put restrictions like this on the bill because the ATF, under President Obama, did attempt to prohibit 223 ammunition…

I strongly support the gentleman's amendment, and it is necessary because the ATF, once again, here attempted to ban ammunition that could be used in a handgun that is otherwise commonly available for rifles. In the statute, the Congress…

I look forward to working with you as we move forward in the process. I understand you are planning to withdraw the amendment.

I look forward to working with my colleague from Texas and with my colleague from Philadelphia on this matter as we move forward in the conference.

Let me, if I could, Mr. Chairman, point out that President Obama has already said he wants to close Guantanamo Bay and bring these people into the United States. The 19th terrorist was captured in the United States, and therefore he was…

I thank the gentleman, just to say that, as you know, we discussed in full committee that the purpose of our bill was to shift the COPS hiring because it has not been reauthorized a number of years over to the Byrne JAG Program, which can…

I want to point out the language Mr. Farr is attempting to strike. It reads: No funds made available to do business with the Cuban military or the intelligence services. The only thing standing between President Barack Obama's attempt to…

Well, the scale of the reduction to reduce the agency by $311,788,000 so abruptly is going to eliminate the ability, for example, to help Mr. Poliquin and other businesses like theirs across the country that are suffering from unfair…

If I could, we are going to make sure that NOAA has got all the--we have given them a record level of increase this year so they can engage and make sure we have got accurate forecasting. Whether it be through their aircraft or their…

I claim the time in opposition to this amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.

Do I have the ability to strike the last word again to complete additional colloquy with the gentleman from Colorado? The Acting CHAIR. Only the gentleman from Texas and the gentleman from Pennsylvania can move to strike the last word…

I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. McCLINTOCK. This amendment leaves all of those legitimate activities of the ITA intact. It still leaves $160 million of activities. All it does is to defund the trade promotion activities that…

I want to make sure everyone in the House understands that what the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) is attempting to do is to give constitutional rights to foreign nationals captured on battlefields overseas who are being held in…