Mr. Speaker, I support this conference agreement before us today, and I urge a ``yes'' vote. I yield back the balance of my time. General Leave

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on adoption of the conference report will be followed by a 5-minute vote on…

Congress doesn't enjoy a great deal of admiration from the public, and I think one of the reasons is...

On the billions that we have spent in the last, what we determined 17 years--17 years on this program, we can't get that back. And it doesn't go to Treasury. It is just gone. Let's stop that.

We need to have an urgency and an understanding of how important this really is.

There was no urgency whatsoever.

I don't ever recall being more outraged about an issue than I am about the electronic health records program.

Thank you for all that you have done, your many years of service.

The proposal to eliminate community development block grants could be particularly harmful because the program provides a critical resource for local decision makers.

When I was at Fort Worth it had at 370,000 people, and it now has 800,000 people.

It has been authorized for the Congress, it has been authorized by two Presidents, and it has been funded up until the last 2 years.