It is surprising to sit here and hear arguments that we have been hearing really for the last almost 70 years now, the notion that the reason that our adversaries build nuclear weapons is because we are building nuclear weapons, or the…

I am hoping that we can be successful here, because, frankly, having a planning process that takes 5 to 7 years--and in some cases there are examples of much more--that is not a workable solution for anyone.

May I ask my colleague from North Carolina, the chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, to engage in a brief colloquy. Mr. Speaker, Wyoming has used CTE funds to pioneer innovative ways of improving the college and career…

Lifting the moratorium on coal leasing on public lands is crucial, and we are very grateful for that.

I would like to thank very much my colleague from Washington particularly for calling me ``young.'' I appreciate that always. Mr. Speaker, I have enjoyed listening to the colloquy taking place among my colleagues on the other side of the…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 310. ____________________

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It is my pleasure to introduce Jim Neiman to the Committee.

I think it is hugely important for us to recognize how important, as you say, that collaborative approach is.

If we get this wrong, none of that matters, and we cannot get this right without repealing the Budget Control Act.

We are facing an array of threats, you said in your testimony, that is basically more volatile than any time in your career.

I completely agree. We have got to repeal the Budget Control Act.

I think we can all agree we have got to repeal the Budget Control Act. It is crucially important.

I welcome the opportunity to share the floor today with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), my good friend from the Rules Committee. I just would point out that, as a Congress, as a body, we have actually passed more pieces of…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 374 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 374 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 230.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I would like to start by thanking all of you very much for your service, for being here today.

There are a lot of charges and allegations being made about what this bill would do, and the reality, Mr. Speaker, is we are living today in the world that they have created on the other side of this aisle. We are living today in a world…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Cheney moves that the appeal be laid on the table. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to lay the…

I thank my colleague from Colorado and my colleague from Maryland for their support of this bill. Mr. Speaker, I introduced H.R. 648 so that we could begin the work necessary to increase the active storage capacity of the Fontenelle…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 174 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 174 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

President Reagan believed and said that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, it is actually when we are weak that we are threatened.

We on this side of the aisle are more than happy to talk about health care. We are more than happy to talk about the really crucial work that is underway to rescue our healthcare system from the collapse and the train wreck of ObamaCare…

I would say that not knowing what they are talking about is something with which our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are quite familiar. Accounts of public input really bear little relationship to what actually happened when…

It was the policy of President Reagan to ensure that we had superiority across the Board, including in our nuclear forces, so that, in fact, we could guarantee that nuclear war would never be fought.

What is incomprehensible to me is that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem so fundamentally confused about what the actual issue before us today is. The issue before us today is whether or not this House is going to…