I think we should have some consistency. Yes, I felt hydrogen production, I correct myself, should have taken a cut just like other things. That should take a cut just as you go after these projects. That is what I am asking for, simply…

I did not say you sneaked it in in the middle of the night. I said it had a 50-percent increase.

we all read in the last month or two where the Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt, had to sell valuable mineral rights to a foreign-owned company at basement prices. And I will not even call them basement prices. The prices were so…

Last year thousands of workers in my community got a major slap in the face when their employer told them their jobs would be moved to another part of the country. If that was not bad enough, these loyal employees had salt rubbed in their…

concern over the size of the deficit is at an all-time high, and the last thing taxpayers want to see right now is a Federal program receiving an unjustified 50 percent increase in funding. Yet, that is precisely what is happening with the…

$200,000. $200,000. $200,000. $200,000. Is that middle class? Is that the middle-class tax cut we are talking about? No, that is the Republican tax plan we are talking about. To help families who make $200,000 because they are middle class…

when the Republicans announced that they were going to close down the school lunch program and fold it into a block grant program, I went to my favorite expert in my district, my wife, who is a schoolteacher, to ask her what she thought…

By the language of this amendment, Mr. Chairman, the 60 days begins to run on the first contact between the plaintiff's attorney and the insurance company, but the bill itself, the amendment itself, does not kick in until there is a…

What we see in this highly politicized Chamber for the last month is Republicans trying to portray Democrats as big spenders. And Democrats trying to portray Republicans as guardians of the wealthy and the privileged. What do the American…

I serve on the committee, so I am certainly familiar with what happened on the committee. This amendment that raised it from 5 to 100 was not the first amendment that was offered on this issue. The first amendment offered on this issue was…

That is correct. There are 26 companies that get $2.6 billion. There are 338 companies that benefit overall, but 26 of those companies get the lion's share, $2.6 billion.

And this provision does go beyond 100. It goes to 338 companies, but again the lion's share goes to that 26 companies.

they are not keeping their promises, and they are breaking the contract. Prior to the election, Mr. Speaker, the Republicans said that they would support a true line-item veto which would give the President the authority to get rid of pork…

I am a supporter, Mr. Speaker, of the line item veto, because I think it is an important tool that the President should have to help us control the runaway spending that we have seen in this country over the last 30 years. But I am very…

thousands of workers in my community got a major slap in the face last year where their employer told them their jobs would be moved to other parts of the country. If this was not bad enough, these loyal employees had salt rubbed in their…

Good morning, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we had a good start to our legislative session yesterday when we passed the Congressional Accountability Act, but we missed an important opportunity because we did not pass the important ban on…

this is a good bill. I am proud to be a cosponsor. It should pass. This is a bad rule and it should be voted down. As was indicated, this bill is virtually identical to the bill that passed last year. One major exception, the ban on…

I rise today to support the efforts of over 27 million people across the country who are working to prevent crime in their neighborhoods and communities. Today, I am introducing legislation to commemorate their work by designating October…