Jared Polis

Mr. POLIS

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Matsui) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. When a unanimous consent request is made, is it not at the discretion of the gentleman controlling the time, the gentleman from Alabama, to agree to that request?

Mr. POLIS. Do we need to make?

Mr. POLIS. Further parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), my colleague on the Committee on Rules, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I inquire of the gentleman from Alabama how many more motions for unanimous consent we need to make until it is granted and we, simply, allow an up-or-down vote on this issue? Again, the silence speaks volumes not only from the gentleman from Alabama but from the Republican majority that continues to prevent a vote on these commonsense measures to reduce deaths and violence and terrorism. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Serrano) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Reclaiming my time, I am in control of the time. I yielded for an answer. The gentleman from Alabama didn't give it. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) for the purpose of a very important unanimous consent request that would save lives and prevent terrorism.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Swalwell) for a unanimous consent request to prevent terrorist attacks in our country.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, we are joined by the ranking member of the Rules Committee, and I hope that my colleague from Alabama will be willing to grant her very important request that she is about to make that will prevent convicted felons from acquiring guns legally and also help keep explosives and weapons out of the hands of terrorists. I am proud to yield to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter) for a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) for the purpose of a critical and timely unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, in a just-breaking Politico article, it says that House leader infighting has forced GOP leaders to indefinitely postpone a vote on an antiterrorism package. You know, I don't know who is going to tell the terrorists that we are postponing a vote on an antiterrorism package. I would hope that the Republicans would join us Democrats in trying to prevent terrorists from quietly assembling arsenals of explosives and guns and weapons to conduct coordinated attacks on the people of our country--that is what we are hoping to do--and break through this Republican obstructionism on this issue. Hopefully, there will be a new, breaking story based on the acceptance of a unanimous consent request that is forthcoming from my colleague from Ohio. I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Brownley) who has a very important and timely unanimous consent request that would save lives.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps) for a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the minority whip, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Serrano) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark) for the purpose of a very important and timely unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I want to be clear that the various speakers have not embellished to this point; is that correct?

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley), the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus, for a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for the purpose of an important unanimous consent request to save lives.

Mr. POLIS. Sadly, the gentleman from Alabama is unable to reserve or stop criminals from legally acquiring weapons or terrorists from silently assembling arsenals to conduct terrorist acts in our country. The only way the gentleman from Alabama can prevent those acts is to prevent the obstruction of this body by granting this very simple unanimous consent request that is about to be made by the gentleman from Florida. I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Democratic leader, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn), the assistant Democratic leader, for a unanimous consent request to fight terrorism.