Political Quotes

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves), who is an active member of our committee, is ranking member of another committee, and who can actually springboard on Mr. Richmond's comments about this…

Mr. Speaker, is the Speaker telling me that if the Republicans have cleared this bill and are in favor of it, it has to have a written clearance from the Democrat side more than simply verbal commitment to the Tribes? The SPEAKER pro…

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I actually have left here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes. This bill is actually extremely poorly drafted. It assumes basic things. But if, for instance, as we said, the royalties don't show up as we are anticipating, we don't have that $1 billion to buy more…