Blake Moore

I was so happy this week when I learned from our Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, that the Republicans are now prepared to realize that women are a very important part of the economy. And that is why I'm wondering why Romney has…

I want to thank the gentleman for a vigorous debate--at least on my part--and I would ask my colleagues to take a closer look. This is the Congress of the United States of America. We are supposed to do things very carefully. This is the…

Reclaiming my time from the point at which I said I was reclaiming my time. And I ask that he be taxed for that extra time because he already gave me his answer--that, yes, it would be deemed to be passed. I just want to remind people, in…

I would yield my time for the purpose of your answering my question. The Speaker has declined to answer my parliamentary query and said that that would be settled during the debate. So is it your understanding that passage of this…

I reserve the balance of my time. I would love to hear what the opponents to my point of order have to say.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your lack of clarity. I raise this point of order because it's important to uncover whether or not the underlying rule for this Natural Resources bill--it's a Natural Resources bill--also deems the Republican…

Okay. We will have to debate this. The language, as I have construed it, says it shall have force and effect in the House as though Congress, which would include the Senate, had adopted such concurrent resolution. That is subject to…

The rule clearly states, ``Pending the adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2013, the provisions of House Concurrent Resolution 112, as adopted by the House, shall have the force and effect in the House as…

I yield 2 minutes to my good friend and neighbor from the great State of Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).

Thank you, Representative Slaughter. I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question in order to allow us to consider the Violence Against Women Act. It is pathetic and it is disappointing that it has come to this--that we…

I thank you so much, Mr. Cleaver. Mr. Chairman, prior to 1994, Congress acted to ensure that Americans had guaranteed support under the Social Security Act. It was a three- legged stool. The American social contract provided retirement…

Thank you, Ms. Fudge. I would, first of all, like to thank Chairman Bachus and Ranking Member Frank and, on the subcommittee, Chairman Garrett and Ranking Member Waters, Mr. Stivers and Ms. Fudge from the Ag Committee, for their leadership…

Lately, I along with many other women have felt like we're a mere supporting cast in an episode of ``The Twilight Zone.'' I can just hear the narration of the show saying: You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of…

I'm here today to be a voice for the millions of women and men who are celebrating the recent decision by the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding requiring all businesses and corporations to provide birth control insurance…

I've got to talk about the food stamp President a little bit--and talking about how we ought to stop spending. Well, this in fact accomplishes that purpose. By overstating the budget risk, the accounting risk that's already accounted for…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise today to join my fellow Democratic members of the House Budget Committee to express my confusion and disbelief over our colleagues' decision to make a spectacle out of the so-called…

Thank you so much, and I just want to say at the outset what a pleasure it is to work with the chairman, the ranking member, and the members of the Budget Committee who, I believe, are sincerely committed to try to help deal with the…

I hear from all walks of life that a transportation budget, reauthorizing the transportation budget, would be such a boon to our economy, training people for the 21st-century skills. But yet here's another backdoor approach to include the…

But I say who's really working for the least of these? Instead of hindering the American people, we need to be helping them, to provide greater access. Instead of passing these unproductive, symbolic, mean-spirited pieces of legislation…

Here we are again, ladies and gentlemen. The lights are up, the music is playing and my Republican colleagues are doing the same old song and dance for the American people. The Republicans have spread out their sand, and they're doing…

Before I close, I would just like to mention one personal experience that I had just this last week. After having suffered an aneurysm, one of my sisters was on her way back to the hospital this morning. Because I didn't have access to a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 3659. This bill was taken out of the 360-page tax extenders bill, and essentially the authors of this bill have brought it up so that they could just have…

That is very kind of you, Mr. Dreier. I would now yield 1 minute to my good friend from Oakland, California, Representative Barbara Lee.

I would inquire of the remaining time on this side. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman has 3 minutes remaining.

Again, I want to thank the gentleman for allowing our side to have some voice in this matter. He yielded me time in the name of the season; so I will frame my remaining remarks in that frame. The season is the reason; 'Tis almost treason…