As Co-Chair of the Congressional Children's Caucus and a proud co-sponsor of the legislation, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2083, the ``Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act.'' I support this legislation because it…

I thank the managers of this bill, the gentleman from Washington and the gentleman from Texas, my colleague from, we would say on the floor, the great State of Texas. This is a very important measure that I have had an opportunity to…

We are now on the precipice, moving toward a place that America should not be. I stood on this floor a few days ago and said, Mr. Speaker, we are facing a crisis; and for some, the argument is we haven't seen the market take a fall. {time}…

I thank you and Ranking Member Slaughter for the opportunity to speak in support of the Senate Amendments to H.R. 2775 which: Reopens the government; Averts a catastrophic default that would risk the full faith and credit of the United…

Over the past 16 days, many of us have risen to this floor and pleaded with our friends on the other side of the aisle and asked for mercy, not mercy for our individual selves as Members of Congress, but mercy for the American people, for…

I place a loving picture of a little one and the excitement that comes from a Head Start program to emphasize my story this morning and the discussion I want to raise this morning for a brief amount of time. All of us have seen those…

Abraham Lincoln offered these words: The rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement is wholly inadmissible so that rejecting the minority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. I think we have come to the…

Let me thank the gentleman for his courtesies and look at this in a somewhat unique fashion to speak to the pending crisis and to join with my colleagues, and particularly in following the chairwoman, Congresswoman Fudge, and thanking her…

Because many families today are not able to pay their mortgage, I ask unanimous consent that the House bring up the Senate amendment to H.J. Res. 59, to open the government and go to conference on the budget so that we can end this…

I have a parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman from Idaho yield to the gentlewoman for a parliamentary inquiry?

Is it in order to put the clean bill on the floor from the Senate to open the government? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman has not stated a proper parliamentary inquiry. The gentleman from Idaho is recognized.

Let me thank the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentlelady who is managing this legislation and indicate that I wish we did have, Mr. McGovern, a bipartisan mission like Mickey Leland and Bill Emerson. If anybody remembers those late…