Jim Matheson: “I want to say again that I thank Representative Fitzpatrick and urge passage of the legislation, and I yield back the…”

I would like to thank my colleague from Florida (Mr. Stearns) for introducing the bill before us today. Mr. Chairman, I support this bipartisan legislation for two reasons. One, I believe that our gun laws should ensure that a responsible…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding me some time. Madam Speaker, I find that sometimes when we talk about issues around here, we hear the same thing we've heard for years and years and years, and sometimes that's a good thing…

As I said, let's not do apples and oranges here. Let's do apples and apples. If this Congress wants to act in a way to pass a balanced budget, it doesn't require a supermajority. If this Congress wants to make a decision to deficit spend…

I think the RxTEC proposal represents a consensus of a lot of the stakeholders. It does agree on a one-size-fits-all for the country and not 50 different State approaches.