I thank the gentleman for his comments. Mr. Speaker, with that, I would like to yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Owens).

I thank the gentleman for his comments. With that, I'd like to yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Bera).

I thank the gentleman. I would now like to yield to the gentlelady from Hawaii (Ms. Gabbard).

I thank the gentlelady, and I thank her for mentioning our veterans. My own father left the mainland in 1945, and the first place he went was to Pearl Harbor on the Island of Oahu, in your home State, before he went into the Pacific…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. And I just have to say if a Green Bay Packer fan like myself, Mr. Speaker, and a Chicago Bear fan like Representative Lipinski can get together and talk about things--if we can talk about that, we…

I'm proud and honored to lead this discussion on the House floor this evening. I organized this special order to show the American people that there are Members of Congress who can have a civilized conversation and who actually want to…

I thank the chairman for yielding. It has been quite an afternoon already: slash, cut, tone deaf, burn, plunder, shred, eviscerate, end Medicare as we know it, balance the budget on the backs of our seniors, and then my favorite, austerity…

I am struck here this afternoon. I've heard my good friends on the other side of the aisle and their concerns. I think it's legitimate that they would like to see long-term certainty in our infrastructure system. Yet, when the highway bill…

The folders that I am holding here represent our dysfunctional Federal bureaucracy. They provide a stark example of the burdensome red tape that a Wisconsin business must go through just to get approval of a single project. Mr. Chairman…

If the gentleman will yield, it's just in the right-of- way, though. Mr. DeFAZIO. No, it says ``or.'' ``Or a project within a right-of- way.'' You have at least a drafting problem here, if not an intentional problem. This exempts any…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following (and conform the table of contents of the bill accordingly): TITLE…

I do want to thank the ranking member. We do have a disagreement, and disagreements happen in this Chamber a lot. But anyone who's traveled our roads and highways and tried to cross bridges that have been falling apart, that are filled…