Last year I was on the congressional trip to the Silicon Valley and to Seattle where we visited Microsoft, and we actually had sort of a big seminar for the business community and it was talking about this very topic, intellectual property…

I don't think it is an either/or proposition.

some of the practices being deployed right now by GSA are, to me, very injurious to business interest.

I actually think there is a lot of bipartisan concern about regulations that go too far.

Boy, my friend from Virginia could not be more wrong. What exactly are the House Republicans trying to accomplish with today's 31st repeal vote of health care? One of the first votes Republicans brought to the floor when they became the…

I have 1 minute, so I'll have to go fast. Here are the top 10 reforms the Republicans want to repeal with their death panels tomorrow: Discounts on prescription drugs, saving seniors $600 a year; parents offering health care coverage to…

I met with Dr. Fayyad. And the impression at the time was that he was sort of a clean government type.

So are you saying that the title of our hearing here, 'Chronic Kleptocracy,' might be a bit of an overstatement?

And what they found was, whatever that barrier was, it was diminished as a barrier.

I am a fellow Bay Stater by birth and child rearing, and so I'm glad to have you here today.

In Massachusetts, the statute passed and signed into law by Governor Romney, requires every Massachusetts resident to file a certificate with the annual State income taxes that they have to file, proving you have insurance.

I believe we are seeing right now inside the Palestinian territories. The insiders get wealthy, the insiders gain more power.

With that, let me just urge my colleagues, in the spirit of bipartisanship, to come together and support our veterans and to make opportunity more available. It is, as I said, a sacred duty, it seems to me, that those men and women who are…

Part of the problem with the electricity bills that we are paying, or that we are giving funds to the Palestinian Authority to pay, is they are, in turn, financing the operations of the Gaza power plant.

What is it that we do here to keep enough pressure and spotlight on the Palestinians, who are the guys that we might prefer win this battle, so that they clean up their act so that the guys who are the terrorists don't win?

The 112th Congress is on the verge of becoming the first in the history of the country to hold a sitting Cabinet member in contempt, cementing its legacy as the most partisan House of Representatives perhaps of all time. When they say it's…

In fact, he had to amend his own subpoenas to delete documents in this very category. But his contempt citation has not caught up with his most recent version of his subpoena. Clearly, the majority has not taken the necessary time to…

Tomorrow we risk bringing dishonor to this House. For Members who revere Congress as the legislative branch of government, the majority's irresponsible and unprecedented contempt vote is just another sad chapter in our recent institutional…

I'm all for an honest intellectual pursuit of the issue of unfunded mandates or burdensome mandates.

I don't think it's an intellectually honest pursuit.

I still don't like the hearing, and I am entitled to not like the hearing.

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: cyber security…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 4, line 6, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''. Page 35, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert…

My amendment underscores the point that we need to be doing more, not less, to combat the dangerous habit of distracted driving on our Nation's roadways. Earlier this evening, we voted on a motion to instruct conferees on the highway bill…

I would inquire as to how much time remains on this side. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.