Michael Burgess: “You admit that other countries are actively recruiting our innovators. Are you working on that?”

Last night the House Committee on Rules met to report a rule providing for consideration of H.R. 115, the Midnight Rules Relief Act under a closed rule. The rule provides for 1 hour of general debate equally divided between the chair and…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining.

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 14 minutes remaining.

I thank the Representative from New York for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule. I rise in support of the underlying bills, in particular, H.R. 9494 to provide continuing funding for the Government of the…