Thank you, Mr. Clay, for your outstanding leadership on the committee and for your outstanding leadership in bringing forward this very, very appropriate and extraordinary resolution for a very extraordinary city that I have had the…

Madam Speaker, today I am pleased, on behalf of the citizens of the great city of Lilburn, Georgia, to usher through, with the help of my friends, this resolution, which speaks to the prominence and the resilience of the people of Lilburn…

Mr. Speaker, I agree that the extension of middle class tax cuts is vital to the economic health of our nation, and I proudly support providing this much needed relief. Over 75 percent of American workers are living paycheck-to-paycheck…

Mr. President, first of all, let me congratulate you on your victory and welcome you to the Senate. I know you will be a great addition to the Senate. I have already enjoyed serving with you on the HELP Committee this morning. Mr…

What if it does happen? What if those 265,000 resign from the military over the next short period of time? What are you going to do?

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4783, The Claims Resolution Act of 2010. It is time to end this decades-long dispute and long process of overdue justice. The Senate overcame a major hurdle on November 19, and their actions…

I appreciate Secretary Solis and Mr. Geithner and the others who are on your board;

I appreciate Senator Harkin bringing that up.

I'll pledge to you to work in a bipartisan way, because it does have to--those acts were both bipartisan;

I think we ought to look seriously at working with you to come up with a board structure that makes sense in the challenging times ahead;

Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen of the House, with nearly 23 million children and adults in the United States living with this disease, it is, indeed, time to reassess our own fitness and nutrition choices, to educate ourselves…

Thank you very much, Chairman Berman. This unwarranted attack by North Korea on South Korea demonstrates more than anything else the dangerous state that our world is in. It is extraordinarily important that we here in Congress condemn in…

I also want to continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to address juvenile diabetes because it can be prevented at an early stage with just testing, care, and increased funding for additional research as the number of cases…

Thank you very much, Mr. Tanner. I certainly appreciate that. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in order to recognize and commend the NATO School for its critical support of NATO's efforts to promote global peace, stability and security. As a…

Mr. President, as an original cosponsor of S. 510, I am very disappointed that I cannot support tonight's cloture vote or the final passage of this bill. Since the bill's introduction and throughout the HELP Committee mark- up process…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the order for the quorum call be rescinded and I ask to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Dodd). Without objection, it is so ordered.

Recapturing a little bit of my time here, talking about the Portland cement issue, when I started looking into this, and first off to make this very clear, we are not talking about company called Portland Cement, we are talking about a…

Reclaiming my time for a minute, it is very clear from the cameras that this is basically a TSA employee doing a leg search of a nun. Go ahead.