Bart Stupak: “We are basing it upon past years' experience. It is like the story about the eight blind men describing an elephant. One…”

I am very pleased and heartened by all of the outpouring of Members who have come down here for the last few hours, and it has also given me an opportunity to say a few things about my friend, Jack Murtha. Jack would be embarrassed about…

I think the evasiveness of your answers only serve to increase the frustration, not decrease the frustration, not just of Members of Congress, but of that of the American people.

Look, he's a corporate guy at the end of the day. He's going to put his best foot forward. It's not going to ring true with me or the American public. And we've got a mess on our hands, a disaster, a catastrophic disaster for our…

I ask the Congress to recognize the generous contribution of the City of Marquette and urge the Coast Guard to perform this land transfer at no cost to the city. The city has already borne significant cost by transferring a new parcel of…