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What is the opinion of you two esteemed gentlemen on the $40.7 billion ExxonMobil cleared? I mean, that's not revenue, that's profit, and yet and still, this President does not want to take away their incentives, their oil subsidies. What…

What do you think about an energy policy that would incentivize the production of cars that get 100 miles to the gallon? They're out there. The technology is there. There are a lot of things that we're looking at here in Congress that…

I want to join with Representative Waters and Representative Lee in calling for an open dialogue, unconditional bilateral dialogue. Dialogue is not a gift, dialogue is not a present, dialogue is not a reward. Dialogue is a tool that can…

The 1920s. It starts with ``Great.'' In fact, Mr. Hodes, your mother was born and lived during this era. When was the last time the top 1 percent made 20 percent of the money in America?

You know it's not the way it happened.

But I just want to say as I hear Mr. Hall make comments about young people who are involved in innovation and creative use of their talents and skills, it reminds me of the fact that this bill that we passed today, plus the bill that we…

That is what it means at the pump. But what does it mean in terms of food prices and prices of other things, because you have to ship this stuff, right?

I agree with both of you, my colleagues. We have to believe. We have to believe we can make a change in the same way people believed that we could have workers' rights, and we believed that we could have civil rights, and we believed that…

Dr. Kagen, what might Americans consider doing? For people who feel SCHIP is a worthy program, a meritorious program, overwhelmingly Americans agree on both sides of the aisle, so what might they consider doing? Particularly people who are…

Of course today, action was taken in the Congress that on a date certain 2 weeks from now, we will take up the override issue. That is very important for Americans to know. In a couple of weeks, we will be right back here in the same…

Representative Clarke, one of the things I really enjoy about serving with you, you are a person of tremendous faith. And also I know that Dr. Kagen is a man of great faith as well. In fact, only a few weeks ago we recognized Yom Kippur, a…

Let's talk about this idea. Would it be okay, and people can do whatever they want, we are not telling anybody what to do, but what somebody might do is ask their pastor to sort of talk about SCHIP and its moral implications.

In fact, right in this Chamber just this past week this bill passed 265-159. When do you see things pass with 259 votes, unless they are completely noncontroversial? That is overwhelming. Doctor, you worked in this field. You are a…

The doctor is in the House. Mr. Speaker, we have a doctor in the House. We are all richly benefited by the presence of Dr. Steve Kagen in this Congress. He is one of the freshman Members who tells it like it is. Very few people are better…

Given that we have about 37 million people who are in poverty in America today, and looking at some expenses, you know, we see that bread prices have risen 25 percent, health insurance costs have risen 97 percent, and the price of regular…

The minimum wage is a good thing. We all three of us feel good about it, and we all three are members also on the Financial Services Committee, so we are focused on these issues. But there have been some other things that have happened…

What does it mean to care for a 20-year-old quadriplegic for the course of his or her life? This chart speaks for itself, but I just want to go to the bottom line if I may. We're looking at $3,816 per second.

I agree. American workers are some of the best in the world, innovative, hard-working, no doubt about it, and given a fair chance, can compete with any workers or anyone around the world, but we just need a fair opportunity. So I think we…

Should our trade model be driven by promotion of American economic activity, including jobs? Or should it be driven by profit margins of huge multinational companies that really have no allegiance other than the profit margin each quarter?

A wide variety of tools. I would be curious to know what some of those tools might be. Are we talking about tickling somebody with a feather, or what kind of tools are we talking about? Are we dragging somebody into a tribunal and getting…

So has the administration been an advocate, protector of the rights of workers in America, much less right around the world?

Under the current model that we have, who is the entity responsible for enforcing trade provisions such as labor or environmental standards? Whose job is it to police those standards?

What about our energy future? What are we going to do into the next decade? We have seen all kinds of challenges with global climate change. We do not want to be depending upon unstable regimes around the world. How can Americans trust…

Thank you, Dr. Kagen, our fellow Congressman who we are so proud of. And I think it is now a good time, my colleagues, we have gone over what we have done. There is much, much more. We can't go over everything because we have just been…