We will take them up, hopefully, in a package at a later date, but I want to call my colleagues' attention to the package of bills that will expand loan limits, expand contracting opportunities with the Federal Government, which, by the…

Small businesses, when they get a contract from the Federal Government, will staff up because that is what small businesses do. They are very flexible. They are very agile. They will scale down, and they can scale up quickly. So I am proud…

Mr. President, again, I thank my colleagues both, and particularly Senator Cardin, for that impassioned plea to focus this place on small business. If we are serious about creating jobs, then our focus, our effort, our work should be for…

Of particular interest to me and the state of Louisiana is the CPSC's ongoing investigation into defective drywall made in the People's Republic of China.

Thank you Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Collins for calling this oversight hearing on the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) budget for fiscal year 2011.

I am pleased to speak as chair of the Small Business Committee with several of my colleagues from the committee who have been hard at work coming up with ideas, drafting and passing legislation in the Small Business Committee over the last…

Mr. President, I join my colleague in supporting this amendment. We have modified it from the original version. No environmental laws will be ignored. The process will be followed. But this amendment would simply expedite getting money to…

Madam Speaker, the American people continue to say in every opportunity that they can that they don't want a government takeover of health care. And all they get from the tone-deaf liberals that are running Congress is this latest attempt…

Madam Speaker, I am a physician who has treated the uninsured in a teaching hospital for the last 20 years and, indeed, not just the uninsured, but oftentimes the people who have Medicaid. So I applaud the President and my Democratic…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to voice my opposition to this piece of legislation. This is a government takeover of health care. Over the last few months, the American people have voiced their opposition to this bill loud and clear. They…

Mr. Speaker, tomorrow Ambassador Kirk will meet behind closed doors with the House Ways and Means Committee. While I appreciate the meeting, why do congressional Democrats refuse to talk in the open about creating jobs through…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators Hutchison and Landrieu be added as cosponsors of the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, in 2005 we passed the CF program, which is revenue sharing for States, for coastal conservation and other purposes. Unfortunately, that money has been very slow to get to States. Only 15 percent that was supposed to have…

Mr. President, with regard to this technical point of order, pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 4(G)(3) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, I move to waive all applicable sections of those acts…

Madam Speaker, of this massive almost 3,000-page bill, there is not one thing that lowers cost; not one. A recent Heritage Foundation article focused on the fact that the health care system is fraught with perverse economic incentives that…

Well, it is really good to hear that because the best practice models that are developing are all focused in that way to try to have the most consistency for these young people who have already enough disruption, in large measure no fault…

I am extremely impressed with your general compassion on this issue and your attention to it.

I cannot impress upon you how important I think that is because people today, they just simply function on the Internet.