No, but I would suggest that the---- The CHAIR. The Chair would generally advise Members to avoid engaging in personalities.

The point of order is the speaker is questioning motives of those on the other side of this argument. The CHAIR. Is the gentleman asking that the gentleman's words be taken down?

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I want to address this issue that Mr. Pompeo and this bill present to this House. This question of GMO labeling and biotechnology is a good thing. Biotechnology has done a lot of…

At this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio). Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I was pleased to hear the gentleman who preceded me in the well acknowledge climate change and say that GMOs are the solution. I do think…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, America needs a long-term, sustainably funded surface transportation bill. You know it. I know it. The Governors in all of our States know it. We need it to repair our roads and bridges and to fix our…

I would like to include an extension of the record indicating that I inadvertently voted ``no'' on rollcall 404. I intended to vote ``aye.'' Amendment Offered by Mr. Grijalva The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a…

If GMOs are so safe, why not label so that folks who are getting what the manufacturers assert is so safe know that their product will be labeled?

The issue here is not so much whether GMOs are safe. The issue is whether individual purchasers, consumers, who purchase food have a right to know that GMOs are part of the food they are buying.

Well, we don't want to go into that; we don't want to be guinea pigs.

I'm disappointed that, under the prior leadership, the Postal Service repeatedly delayed making critical long-term capital investments such as replacing its antiquated fleet.

One of the things we have to do it seems to me in Congress if we're going to unlock some capital is to get rid of the onerous prepayment burden that Congress back in 2006 put on the Postal Service.

We could have infused the capital the Postal Service didn't have. We could have helped jump-start the electric car market here in the United States.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we need a surface transportation bill, but the last thing in the world we need is this bill, a 2-month extension. If this short-term plan was a necessary step to get us to a long-term bill…

As you know, in 4 days, our transportation fund will expire. This will be the 34th time in the past 6 years that Congress has failed to pass a long-term transportation funding bill. We all know that our highways, our bridges, our airports…

I really think this is an area where we should try to make what changes will help the organization function better.

I really am grateful to our chairman, Mr. Whitfield, and Chairman Upton, for their focus on this.

I think there have got to be some standards that make sense, but they have to fit what is realistic in the real world.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been with us for a while, and can perform a number of very useful functions, including taking some of the pressure off the spike in gas prices when consumers are getting hammered.

We have been very supportive of the energy savings through Public-Private Partnership Act of 2015 that was introduced by Representatives Kinzinger and Welch, thank you very much.

That common ground that we have, Mr. Olson, of saving money, I am kind of cheap in Vermont, motivates me, but it also creates jobs.

Energy efficiency is such an area where we can work together and make real progress.

It does have some implementation challenges. Let us work to figure out how we can square that circle.

It feels a lot better to be getting something done instead of just fighting all the time, you know what I mean?

I am pleased that the House is taking up again bipartisan action today to address the serious issue that impacts families in each of our districts: prescription drug abuse. Vermont, like Tennessee and many States around the country, is…

I want to thank my colleagues, particularly Mr. Marino. We have the practical application of a commonsense approach here, where, on the one hand, you have got this enormous health need that the people whom we represent can have some of…