I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to pose an important question to Nevadans. How would you feel about having only 10 days' notice that an election would be held? That would give you only 10 days to research the…

Washington seems to have forgotten that government money isn't free, and it is the American taxpayers who support its spending habit. Simply put, the Federal Government doesn't respect your hard work, your discipline, your sacrifice or…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, in the past, unions have been about protecting workers. As a physician, I know that one of the major reasons for the increase in life expectancy between the first and second half of the last century…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I too want to offer my congratulations to Mark Amodei. I had the honor of serving alongside him in the State Senate, where he distinguished himself as president pro tempore and a member of the Natural…

I thank all my colleagues for coming down this afternoon and sharing their feelings and experiences on that fateful day of September 11, 2001. We have heard a range of emotions, each telling their own story on how that day affected them. I…

I now yield to my friend and member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway).

I would now like to yield to my colleague from the House Armed Services Committee, the gentlelady from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler).

I would now like to yield to the gentleman from the Keystone State, Mr. Meehan.

We all have our own stories, personal stories on how 9/11 affected us, where we were, what we were doing. For my generation, I'm sure the day will go down in history as our day of infamy. My perspective is as a first responder on that day…

I am here to share a short letter I received from one of my constituents who used to own a small business. His name is Steve, and his letter eloquently addresses the issue we are discussing today. Steve wrote: ``I know it is a very…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 28, amend lines 16 through 19 to read as follows: For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the purpose of the…

I would respectfully request that during your deliberation on the point of order that you consider the fact that in the second session of the 111th Congress, a similar provision was passed by this body in H.R. 5866. The Acting CHAIR. The…

Thomas Jefferson said: ``Laws and institutions must go hand-in-hand with the progress of the human mind.'' As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 47, line 17, strike ``10'' and insert ``25''. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Nevada is recognized for 5 minutes.

I am offering this amendment to restore funding to the top 25 cities under the Urban Area Security Initiative. This issue is personal to me. I spent a great deal of my career in the anti-terrorism field. I have developed threat assessments…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to begin by recognizing our military's extraordinary efforts to successfully close a painful chapter in American history. Of course, the military could not have performed their mission so successfully…

And we must ensure the intelligence community is accountable for their operations because most of their operations occur outside of the public's view. Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger are doing incredible work to make these…

I have said, like most in this Chamber, that I oppose a government shutdown. Last November, Nevadans spoke. The American people spoke. They said cut the spending so the economy can grow. My primary goal is not a government shutdown. It is…

I rise today to oppose H.R. 830, the FHA Refinance Program Termination Act. I represent the district that is truly ground zero for America's housing crisis; 390,192 mortgages in Nevada are underwater. Let me say that again: 390,192…

Mr. Speaker, today I also rise in support of H.R. 4, the Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011. There is no doubt this job-killing 1099 hidden tax deserves repeal. Nevada's unemployment rate is a Nation-high 14.5…

Washington said it wants to hear job-creating ideas from the business community. Here is one that they are screaming about. Nevada's families are hurting. American families are hurting. It's time to end the job-killing 1099 hidden tax and…

Increasing access to high-quality health care while reducing costs, that was the goal of the recently enacted health care law. But no matter how well-intentioned, very few now stand by that law in its entirety. The new health care law will…