Nick Lampson: “I wanted to come here tonight, Mr. Speaker, to speak on the Patients' Bill of Rights... Unfortunately, it was started…”

as we consider today's appropriations bill, we are all mindful of how harmful wasteful government spending is to hardworking American families. In fact, just this morning I was joined by the majority leader and some of my Blue Dog…

Surely, you heard some of the presentations made by our colleagues earlier talking about the need to increase drilling. What are your feelings about what these needs for our Nation are? Clearly, we must produce everything that we can…

They remain in effect, but this just clarifies what the intent of the legislation was and is. It's going to allow blends of those fuels to be used by NASA until we can do the research that shows that emissions are going to be reduced below…

Let me just raise another point. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Gilchrest spoke of the amount of time that many of our forces served without break. We saw just recently a proposal made in the Senate that I would like for us to add…