The breach at the Department of Education is something we have been warning about on this committee for quite some time.

I want to thank my friend Bobby Scott for his leadership. This is an incredible service, not only to my Commonwealth of Virginia and his, but, frankly, to all Americans. This isn't just an issue for African Americans or some subgroup. All…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining on this side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has 17\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I agree with my friend from Wisconsin. I think he laid out the case very well. I think the ruling of the circuit court in many ways tells us about the perils of a very juridical view of what a statute is all about. To refuse to take into…

When we are going to pass a bill on a bipartisan basis, it might be useful to acknowledge the bill has a Democratic cosponsor. I am proud to be the lead cosponsor with Congressman Duffy on the Follow the Rules Act--in fact, he asked me to…

When will the DATA Act be fully online and implemented?

That's a pretty expensive mandate to try to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

Richmond has a very different political philosophy than Northern Virginia in terms of our Federal partners and how these programs trickle down at the local level.

Maybe that's a welcome message in Kentucky. It's not a welcome message in Virginia.

So the Federal Government, as you pointed out, has a big stake in the future of Metro since a third of the Federal workforce uses Metro to get to work every day.

I mean, there was actually a problem identified, which was rather substantial tax evasion in the billions of dollars.

Thank you for having a hearing. And maybe there's a slightly different point of view about the issue while acknowledging there are problems with the act and with its implementation.

I would ask everybody to forbear civility and acceptance.

A lot of us talk loosely, especially those of us who have no experience in local government, about 'let's just block-grant everything, send it to the State, and their tender mercies will see to it that localities do well.'

I don't want to see fellow citizens hurt. I want to see tax cheats brought in.

We are losing, as a county, millions of dollars in Federal support because of the State's inability to support the expansion of Medicaid.

And, in fact, recently, this administration, help-on-the-way administration, actually withheld Department of Transportation funding for lots of other unrelated transit projects throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia because of an…

I want to know what brand of whiskey he drinks, and I'm going to send a barrel of it to all of my generals, because he wins.

If we start changing the baseline against which we measure best of work, you know, we all become one happy paradise in the workers', you know, republic.

I always felt in management in the private sector that productivity at the end of the day is what I care about.

Imagine the morale over there, with a 31-percent cut.

It's a very juridical environment that seems to stifle sometimes creativity, seems to minimize performance with all the protections.

Uncertainty is the most corrosive of all in terms of diminishing, you know, capability.

Just remember, if we go online, Ms. Villalobos, it will be read in Moscow and Beijing.

I thank my distinguished friend from Massachusetts, and I also thank his able staff for the incredible work they are doing. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about the bill before us, the EPA Science Advisory Board, but also I want to talk about…