I have an amendment at the desk, Mr. Chairman. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 1, insert ``(A)'' after ``(1)''. Page 6, line 4, strike ``(2)'' and insert…

I'm so glad my dear friend rose to speak to the new phenomenon of apples and oranges. My friends, I am not coddling criminals. We know this is a distinctive bill that is not addressing the question of criminals who come to do us harm. What…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 21, strike the close quotation marks and the following period. Page 6, after line 21, insert…

I am hoping that there will be no Member that will oppose a commonsense amendment that allows our law enforcement officers to be more protected. One might think, as I point to this picture of a nurse giving a young man an immunization shot…

I thank you for your courtesies, and I am delighted to have seen my good friend engage in a dialogue and a colloquy with my friend from Tennessee. Maybe I might even get the same courtesies because this is a very important issue that also…

I thank the gentleman from California and my colleagues from Ohio, Alabama, Minnesota, and New York. I think that is a sufficiently far reach to know that this is a national issue. Mr. Garamendi, we thank you from your perch as an insurer…

Instead of Republican legislatures across America, Madam Speaker, focusing on creating jobs in their States and working with this Congress to create jobs, we find ourselves shackled by 40 States implementing voter ID laws--laws/provisions…

Before I talk about my topic of protecting our children, I want to acknowledge, first of all, the coming Thanksgiving and the many people who are impoverished in this Nation that we need to pay attention to and, particularly, our children…

You're absolutely right. Just one point about Make It In America and the idea of companies such as Siemens, our colleague from California, indicated, that they are in California, rightly so. And we should be very, very strong in making…

And I would argue vigorously that it is disappointing that we have not been listened to and members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Democratic Caucus, and even today the supercommittee is speaking about not fulfilling the promise…

Reestablish manufacturing. If manufacturing makes things, we've got to buy things. How do you buy things? You have money to buy it. And I've been supporting this for a very long time. I'm part of the Manufacturing Caucus. In addition, it's…

I thank the gentlelady from the Virgin Islands for her leadership, and I'm delighted to join her in what I think is an enormously important discussion. Oftentimes, Congresswoman, we don't get a chance to have this kind of discussion when…