Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2 is a practical bill that would lower costs for energy, create over 1 million long-term jobs, improve our energy security, and substantially reduce redtape. This is exactly the type of bipartisan legislation Congress…

Lastly, I would like to say, as the distinguished chair moves on to his retirement from this august body, that for as long as the gentleman has been a member of this Ways and Means Committee that I have admired and I continue to respect…

Now, the gentleman knows also that in order to get a bill passed, it really helps if you get the cooperation of the President of the United States. I would like to submit a statement for the Record from the administration which says that…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, as we close out on this bill, I would like to enter into the Record a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This is an objective report on the subject that we have just…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis), one of the hardest working members of the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind), my friend and a distinguished, eloquent member of the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), a hardworking gentleman on the Ways and Means Committee, one who has been outspoken on all of the issues that concern national security as well as the protection of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, before I yield to the gentleman from Maryland to inform the gentleman from Georgia more about these corporations that are attempting to flee the United States, I would…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would not suggest to the distinguished gentleman from Illinois what he should be doing as a part of the majority, but if I had a bill as good as the one that he had, I…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, my friend, who eloquently mentioned how the Congress should and could be working more closely together. Again, I say that yesterday…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Certainly, we all will be getting a lot of mail from the logging companies asking for this legislation in order to create jobs. I wish included in this package would have been the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. If we were serious about passing a bill that has been rehashed in this House and no action has been taken upon it, common sense and reason would dictate that we would work with the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I might consume. It is awkward and embarrassing to stand on this floor to discuss something described as a Jobs for America bill. Fortunately, we Democrats don't have to expend too much energy…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. H.R. 2 is yet another example of the majority's backward energy policy, which doubles-down on dirty fossil fuels instead of investing in a clean energy future…

Mr. Speaker, my late mother used to say maybe I should be a college professor because I really do enjoy educating people, and nothing gives me more thrill than to help educate people here on the floor. My friend says that Republicans deny…

Mr. Speaker, an article today by Andrew McCarthy that I want to read in part: Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan . . . Bill Roggio reports that jihadists have killed four American soldiers. Three were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul and…

We are pro-people. They are pro-government, pro- regulation. Let's get back to helping the people, like the 80-year-old lady who lives outside of Carthage who told me she was born with only a wooden stove in her home. She may die with it…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis).