If the question is whether tax cuts pay for themselves or only add to our public debt, we have significant experience and evidence.

If the question is whether human-induced climate change is a serious threat to America, we have significant scientific evidence.

There is a new report out this morning from the Center for Budget and Public Policy Priorities, indicating that the safety net lifted 39 million Americans out of poverty in 2013.

the goal is to terminate, cancel, and cut, which seems to be the approach taken in this unfortunate Republican budget.

Indeed, when I first arrived here on Capitol Hill, an old Capitol Hill staffer told me to remember that here, in Congress, every Member is entitled to their own facts.

If the question is whether comprehensive immigration reform will grow our economy, we have significant evidence.

We have significant evidence on a program such as Abstinence-Only Education, that it is one of the best ways to increase teen pregnancy, rather than to reduce it.

What would be the effect on the inequality gap that this country has already, and on those poor families, if we make those type of cuts in the budget?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago, in the Central Texas one-room schoolhouse where he had studied, President Lyndon B. Johnson first signed this Federal aid to education act into law. Through its first title…

Mr. Speaker, with only hours remaining before Department of Homeland Security funding is terminated, and following a 98-2 Senate vote to restore some sanity here and proceed with consideration of that funding, House Republicans are still…

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 272, noes 142, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 82]…