Doc Hastings

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), my good friend.

The Library of Congress has made 90 subject head changes. Why this one? Why does it have to stick and can't be changed? I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Through you, I will advise my friend from Alabama that I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close whenever he is. I reserve the balance of my time.

When I came to Congress in 1993, among the first people that I met and got to know and have been fast friends with since, is the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Gutierrez), my good friend who also has not only great wisdom on the subject of…

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green), my very good friend.

If we defeat the previous question, I am going to offer an amendment to the rule to bring up the Democratic alternative Zika bill that provides the administration with the $1.9 billion its top scientific and medical experts say is needed…

Yes, I follow you. I don't have a problem with that. I thank the chairman for his forthright commentary. Mr. Speaker, I would advise my colleague from Ohio that I have no further speakers. I think we have made our time deadline of 1:50. So…

I am not just talking about Congresspersons, I am talking about throughout the bureaucracy.

I appreciate that very much, Mr. Chairman. Then, for all of our edification, not needing a response unless you care to give one, I said earlier in my remarks that it was less than 2 percent of the delinquencies that occurred in the…

So, then, having cut their budget by 17 percent and then not allowing them to undertake the user fees under the measure that is before us in a manner as you assert to undertake a mandate that they had, do you agree with me that the IRS…

I ask the chairman if he would remain just a moment to engage in a colloquy with me. Mr. Chairman, with great respect, do you agree with me that, between the years 2010 and 2015, Congress cut the IRS budget by 17 percent?

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question and vote ``no'' on the rule and the underlying bills. I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question, and vote ``no'' on the rule. I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. My ultimate point was that in this year, we have had 45 closed rules and, clearly, Members are precluded. That 45, I might add, has been achieved in this year, and that is more than in the previous…

My question to you is, even though the germane amendments were made in order, under the structured rule, am I correct that other Members of the House of Representatives who did not, at the time, file an amendment before the Rules Committee…

We should be working together to ensure that all children have the opportunity to receive a quality education and taking action to guarantee that the United States pays all of its bills on time and in full. Neither of these bills…

I am very pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Welch) to discuss our proposal. My friend from Vermont is a distinguished gentleman and a former Member of the Rules Committee.

Before yielding, I would like to correct myself. When I spoke, I spoke about the minority's right for a motion to recommit, which indeed we do have; but in this particular instance, it is the minority's right to offer up the previous…

The gentleman doesn't have the prerogative of what the minority has, and that is an opportunity to offer a motion to recommit. He is correct that there are two bills that are being brought here in this grab-bag rule, but if he says that…

I am very pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson), my good friend, to discuss our proposal. He is the chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

The gentlewoman from North Carolina says that we are discussing the Export-Import Bank because we are losing, as she put it, on the subject that is the base bill here today. We are not losing. This bill will pass the House of…

To discuss our proposal, I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to my good friend from Washington (Mr. Heck).

If we defeat the previous question, I am going to offer an amendment to the rule to bring up H.R. 3611, a long- term reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment in the…

I am very pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Matsui), my good friend. {time} 1245

I am very pleased at this time to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Grijalva), a very good friend of mine and the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources.