White House Chiefs of Staff

I have an amendment to the amendment. The CHAIR. The gentleman from California is under recognition.

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: TITLE V GENERAL…

I have an amendment at the desk, No. 4. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike page 66, line 4-11. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 736, the gentleman from South Carolina and a Member…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Military…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike page 65, line 21 through page 66, line 3. The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 736, the gentleman from South Carolina and…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Military…

I have had my say. I move approval. I reserve the balance of my time.

I have an amendment at the desk. I indicated before, I have had my say. We are going to go through the motions on the next three. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike page 65, lines 12-20. The…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Military…

It is hard to argue with that. This money is going for counterterrorism. It is going for the preposition of assets. It is going for reassuring our allies. It is going to combat Mr. Putin or constrain him in Ukraine. I am a little hard…

How much time do I have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina has 1 minute remaining.

I have four consecutive amendments that are all very closely intertwined. There are actually four simply for procedural matters that I offered originally as one. I am going to argue all of them together essentially at one time because this…

Is it possible, with the approval of the gentleman who is controlling the time for the majority, to combine amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 into a single amendment? The CHAIR. The amendments could be considered together by unanimous consent.

I have an amendment at the desk. Actually, I have four consecutive amendments at the desk.

That was the quickest 25 pages I have heard in a long time. Amendment Offered by Mr. Mulvaney

Parliamentary inquiry. The CHAIR. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

He has suggested that, within the United States, we should have a--an identified National Security Council coordinator...

It strikes me as not being fair. In fact, it reminds me... of something that many of us in the Class of 2010 ran against.

Consumers have lost $1.2 billion in the failed CO-OPs, and I don't think it is fair to anyone that we just sit around and not have hearings like this.

Twelve of these 12 CO-OPs have failed. I think it has cost taxpayers so far about $2.4 billion.

Actually, I have been showing them that chart since you and I arrived in 2011 because the number has not changed significantly. When you and I arrived and served on the Budget Committee together in 2011, we could have told people roughly…

The 40-year rolling average is about 6 percent. That is what money ordinarily costs the United States of America. It is about 6 percent if you look at it over a generational length of time. If we simply regress to the mean and end up with…

There is no question. At $16 trillion of debt, roughly, which is the public debt now, you are talking about interest rates below 2 percent.

It is also the benefit of a totally accommodating Federal Reserve, who sets the price of interest through things like quantitative easing, which is nothing more than printing money. They have unnaturally depressed rates. Depressed interest…