Jim Matheson

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for offering this motion and I thank him for yielding me this time. We've heard a lot from different Members out here already about what the construction of this pipeline would mean in terms of increased…

I have worked with drug supply chain stakeholders in crafting legislation to develop a national system to better protect our Nation's drug supply against counterfeiting threats.

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.

I stand in strong support of this amendment, as I do to the underlying bill. The amendment before us will provide much-needed liability protections to medical professionals to ensure that they are able to do what they are trained to do…

I have grave concern for a couple of reasons. One is, of course, I want folks in the United States to have access to the best devices possible to maintain their health and safety, number one, and secondly, the medical device industry is…

I think it's the same threshold that requires us to make a decision to deficit spend. It's the same supermajority for that as well. So I think that what we do is we're putting a requirement in where, if you want to default or if you want…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) for introducing the bill, and I thank the gentleman from Virginia for the time. You know, I'm part of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative Democrats, and for 16 years the Blue…

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 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…

I want to thank my colleague from Kentucky for allowing me the time. I think, as we look at the TRAIN Act today, you're going to hear a lot during this debate from both sides of the aisle; and there are going to be a lot of strong words…

In the report language from the committee report for this bill, the Appropriations Committee included some language talking about concern about the lack of remediation activity taking place around the country at various…

I have an amendment at the desk, Mr. Chairman. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 27, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)''. Page 33, line 20, after the…

I am very pleased to stand up and offer this bipartisan amendment today, offered by myself and also the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce). The amendment addresses an interesting problem, and that is, over history, at times, the…

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 256, after line 9, insert the following (and conform the table of contents accordingly): SEC. 814…

I greatly appreciate the comments of my colleague Mr. Petri. And, again, I also commit to work with you to refine this to make this in the best possible form.

Reclaiming my time, if no one is going to claim time in opposition, I am happy to close. Again, I appreciate Mr. Pearce's work on this and I appreciate Mr. Petri's ongoing discussions on this. It's been a bipartisan effort. I encourage my…

My amendment addresses issues of nonessential travel by Federal employees that are not involved in the Department of Defense or Homeland Security. Simply stated, the amendment says that appropriations made available by this act are hereby…

I appreciate the comments of my colleague from Kentucky about the challenges of across-the-board cuts. I feel like I was elected to come up with suggestions. If I could draft an amendment that would be ruled in order, I would specifically…

My amendment would eliminate funding for the community connect broadband grant program which is administered by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service. Now, eliminating this program would save over $13.4 million. This is…

It's a goal across all of the other departments, all of the other appropriations areas, except Defense and Homeland Security are excluded.

My amendment affects departments other than Defense and Homeland Security. It's only for nonessential employees in other Federal departments outside of those two.

This amendment would cut funding in the CR, other than the Department of Defense and the U.S. Postal Service, other than those two, by $280 million. Now, $280 million is the amount of money that would be saved if Federal civilian agencies…

I just want to point out, absent concerns of a point of order I would have prescriptively said this is specific to do with nonessential travel of Federal employees. Due to concerns about a point of order, we structured this amendment where…

Although I do not support a wholesale repeal of the legislation, I do believe that there are some bipartisan improvements that can be made to the existing law, and I think now is the time for all of us in Congress to roll up our sleeves…