I would just encourage that you continue to do that. It is difficult to see, while all options have to be on the table, how military intervention there can do anything but make our families less secure.

The amendments became a part of the original legislation of the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act.

I would like to see you move more quickly rather than more slowly, and encourage looking at our policy there to find a way to ensure our security, having achieved many of our goals, and assure our security without as broad a footprint as…

I think all of us recognize the potential of the Trans-Pacific partnership, and as with any trade agreement, there are pluses, and there are minuses.

This bill, like most that come out here from the Republicans, has a great name. It's a Pro-Growth Budgeting Act. It's not a pro-growth budget--big difference--but a Pro-Growth Budgeting Act. And like so many of the pieces of legislation…

We heard objective testimony that if we extend all of the Bush tax cuts for the next decade, we will have less economic growth in this country, not more economic growth, as their theology maintains. And the testimony we're hearing is not…

Madam Speaker, I commend the gentleman for his service as our subcommittee chair and on the data issue that will be important in reducing any kind of abuse of public assistance. I now yield 2 minutes to my colleague from the Budget…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I'm against fraud. I think everyone here is against it. I'm for what's in this bill. That's why I voted for it back in December, and I'll vote for it next month, too, if that will…

I yield myself 30 seconds to place into the Record a letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures as well as a letter from the American Public Human Services Association and the National Association of State TANF…

Well, I couldn't agree with the gentleman more about the importance of preserving, in his words, ``the integrity of this program.'' That means that none of the public funds are wasted or used in an improper way, but it also means that the…

Is it just too much to ask that seniors that are struggling in a nursing home after a lifetime of work get a little economic security, that they get a little dignity? Is it too much to bring just a little peace of mind to a family that is…