Bobby Scott

The failure of the Central States Plan would result in the loss of 50,000 jobs in 2025.

We need to protect their pensions before it is too late.

As we consider the so-called bailout, we have to recognize that we are on the hook, that the Butch Lewis bill...

Now we have been working mostly on guidance, it that right?

Is guidance enforceable?

Thank you, Madame Chair and thank you for holding this hearing.

No American working full time should be living in poverty, and by gradually increasing the minimum wage...

Unfortunately, by refusing to allow this amendment to come to the floor, the majority has denied Members the opportunity to have an important debate on this issue. Rather than avoiding the issue, the majority should be standing up for a…

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for introducing this bill. I urge my colleagues to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Will you advise as to how much time is left on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Yoder). The gentleman from Virginia has 15\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Michigan has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Could you advise us as to how much time is remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Coffman). The gentleman from Virginia has 13\1/2\ minutes. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 15 minutes.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a more compassionate, fiscally responsible alternative to the underlying Republican budget and does not rely on unrealistic growth projections or bizarre suggestions that massive tax cuts can pay for…

Can you advise how much time is remaining on both sides? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 5 minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk made in order under the rule. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division F (before the short title), insert the following: Sec…

This amendment would reduce funding by 10 percent for programs administered by all accounts in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. By making it across the board, it makes it more difficult for the agencies to actually administer their…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. The Chair understands that amendment No. 114 will not be…

I rise as the designee of the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), and I have an amendment at the desk, No. 113. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 346, strike…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Sanford The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I urge my colleagues to reject the amendment. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

I think if you repealed the 16th and 17th Amendment, a balanced budget amendment would probably become not unnecessary.

If a balanced budget amendment doesn't address that fundamental problem, you will never succeed in whatever you do with regard to balancing your budget.

I support a balanced budget amendment. The question is what that amendment does and what it looks like.

If we are ever going to balance the budget, the fact is we are going to require members to cast some tough votes. Many of these votes will be career-ending votes, and a constitutional amendment will not change that reality.

Reducing our deficit and balancing our budget are goals that every Member here supports. But I worry that we often get distracted by the title of these resolutions without paying serious consideration about whether the specific provisions…

Ranking Member Cummings and Congressman Issa of our committee have a bipartisan, bicameral bill called the Fair Chance Act.