We should not rush to judgment. Words mean something. We need to be careful.

I was going to talk about sequestration--and I will, Mr. Speaker--but I've got to respond to my friend on what he calls ObamaCare. It does everything he says he wants it to do, and I will remind those critics of ObamaCare that the…

Protecting the sustained viability of community banks is important for the quality of life in small towns and rural counties.

This was the targeting of the President's political enemies, effectively, and lies about it during the election year so that it wasn't discovered until afterwards.

The group of Democratic-leaning organizations was denied tax-exempt status by the IRS after their applications were pending for over 3 years.

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 Offered by Mr. Tonko

So we knowingly want to stay engaged and we want to minimize risks and try to understand it but we can't eliminate it.

Ted Poe and I both believe it is time for transparency in the Supreme Court. We want cameras in the Supreme Court.

If every one of them replicated the zeal and the commitment of talent that this one did, we could bring that $50 billion number down considerably.

One of the things I would urge you to look at is, as part of this, are U.S. Attorneys' offices sufficiently seized with this mission?

The United States has interests in North Africa, and also as my colleagues have testified what is happening in North Africa is not staying in North Africa.

we are neither omnipotent nor omniscient.

I have wracked my brain to try to find a Democratic amendment that the distinguished Republican manager could support, and I know I have hit upon it. It's a low-impact amendment, modest in the extreme, but with high payoff and gravy: a $3…

If you round it out at $125 billion a year, and that could be a low figure, actually, but we will take that one, times ten, it exceeds sequestration.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $15,500,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

Before I yield back, I just want to congratulate the gentleman on his legislation. It is correcting an error, and it will make a very positive benefit for so many veterans organizations, including the ones he enumerated. I am proud to…

I would argue part of the problem was our own command structure because we, frankly, infused Ambassador Bremer with way too much power.

How can we be surprised that the United States finds so much waste based on a war that had nothing but false premises?

Maybe Mr. Hastings of Washington would be more comfortable calling it the Hastings-Connolly amendment, so that a Virginia name might make him feel more comfortable. Mr. Chairman, have we already forgotten the consequences of lax…

I am particularly proud of being an original co-sponsor of the Vietnam Human Rights Act where human rights violations continue.

I think both regimes, in a way, they were mirror images of each other.

I do agree, of course, that the administration regime of Bashar Assad must go, but we are going have to work very carefully to make sure that that which replaces it is a government that respects the rights of minorities, including…

The jihadist element in the rebels that is extremely worrisome, and these are being supported, it is no secret, from the Gulf region.

I mean, it is very clear that the United States' prestige and engagement around the world were badly damaged by 8 years of the previous administration.

We are working very hard to figure out the best way to provide the kind of vetting and end-use monitoring that would ensure that the assistance we provide goes to the people who are working toward a free, stable, and democratic and…