When I ran I kind of ran on the idea that Washington wasn't necessarily good at doing a lot of things.

To force you to serve food that hungry kids throw out maybe tops the list of things the Federal Government shouldn't be doing.

I think right now these large organizations with I am sure millions of investors and many employees are really jeopardized.

The question I would like to know when I talk to my local school districts who frequently always want more money, they wonder how much we are spending here to administer a program that is kind of based on the idea that the local people…

The federal requirements are causing the costs to go up that they have to charge the kids who are not low-income.

It should not be that difficult to make a healthy lunch. Right now we couldn't be doing worse.

On passage of H.R. 2685, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, I would have voted ``yes'' had I been present for the final roll (Roll no. 358). ____________________

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

The first thing we should look at when we look at this budget is cost, and this is one program that is going up in cost. We are still in a position in this budget in which we anticipate borrowing about 14 percent. We have the $18 trillion…

First of all, I would like to clarify something in the amendment. The amendment does not apply to people who were receiving rental assistance--and neither did the other amendment--prior to October 1 of this year. It is not a matter of…

I do not give up hope that, by the time this budget rolls around next year, you see the wisdom of the amendment. I think a lot of people get confused when they find waiting lists for this sort of program. If you are handing out apartments…

I think all we talked about in that last amendment applies to this amendment, with one additional thing that people should find offensive, because here we are dealing with project-based rental assistance. Not only are we encouraging some…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 52, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $230,000,000)''. Page 156, line 15, after the dollar amount…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 74, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $614,000,000)''. Page 75, line 6, after the dollar amount…

I am glad to be here. It shows different people look at this budget and see different things. I look at this budget and see a $614 million increase in Section 8 housing, and I look at the huge debt we have, and I say: Why are we spending…

As you know, we are very in debt in this country. This budget is on path to balance the budget eventually years down the road, but, really, we should be looking to cut spending right now. You look at things the Federal Government is paying…

Thank you guys for doing that, and there's certainly hard-working guys and gals.

this is not exactly the type of hearing I thought I was signing up for when I ran for this job.

there is no Federal agency that is perceived to lack commonsense more and doing more to endanger the American economy than the EPA.

I am glad to be here to speak one more time on Senate Joint Resolution 8. I will make two points again. One of the things we see here is we have new rules which continue a trend, and that is you are fundamentally changing the way things…

On rollcall No. 123 I was detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, lines 4, 7, 16, 20, and 24, strike ``2021'' and insert ``2018''. Page 6, lines 4, 10, 16, 21, and…

Just one more time to emphasize on this amendment, it is my experience, in many, many years dealing with local superintendents, local school boards, very rarely are they appreciative of people on other levels of government without that…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Meeks The Acting CHAIR. It is…