Mr. Speaker, H-Canyon Chemical Separations Facility at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina, which is valued at nearly $1 billion, is the only shielded nuclear chemical separations plant still in operation in the United…

Clearly, my fellow South Caroliniacs [SIC] see me as the only Mitt-ternative.

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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Peter Isberg, president of the National Payroll Reporting Consortium, Inc., expressed concern over the Senate-proposed payroll tax plan which offers only a 2-month extension instead of the yearlong extension passed…

I thank the chairman for yielding. I want to thank him for his leadership of the Republican Policy Committee and his work on this legislation. Last week the House passed a 1-year payroll extension which included a provision to override the…

Mr. Speaker, we often talk about poison pills, and I don't know that all of the American people really understand what we're talking about. I want the American people to know that this 1-year bill that the House Republicans seemed to be in…

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina has 12\3/ 4\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 16 minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentlelady from Tennessee that that is exactly what this bill is designed to do, put into the pockets of 160 million Americans an extended tax cut. With that, Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the…

Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman).

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott).

I have two speakers left. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina has 5\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 7\1/4\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from Maryland (Ms. Edwards).

Mr. Speaker, I would like to close as I opened. I said at the outset that we've been getting some tremendous, what I would call tremendously positive numbers for our economy in the past several months, and I believe the American people are…

Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Cleaver.

Mr. Speaker, how much time is now remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina has 8\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 11\1/4\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi).

Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Alabama (Ms. Sewell).

Mr. Speaker, I remind my friend from Texas that according to all reports, last month 43 States registered a decrease in unemployment, the first time that's happened since the year 2003. With that, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the…