When I vote, the Supreme Court does matter.

Mr. Speaker, the Raleigh News & Observer reported seriously that last Tuesday at a Rotary club meeting in Cary, North Carolina, Governor Beverly Perdue stated: ``I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for 2 years and…

I see the primary function of the national government as national defense.

I believe, ultimately, the American people do have resolve.

Mr. Speaker, during a radio interview last week, Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged the current administration has responsibility for the economy. The Vice President stated, ``Right now, we are the ones in charge. I don't blame them for…

clearly this is an issue that we have to address, and it is not something that can wait 10 years.

I think we need to have open and fair trade.

We never take anything off the table because we don't know where the economy is going to go.

We need to make sure people have technical skills, because technological change has been one place where a lot of people are getting left behind.

I strongly support efforts to put our fiscal policy back on a long-term sustainable path.

We have a serious issue with distribution of wealth in this country, and that really needs to be addressed.

Is this something we can really control at this point?

Are we concerned that we are setting the stage for that to happen, though, in effect?

It is a very difficult time, and I appreciate your calmness through the storm here.

The Fed has continued to expand its balance sheet with multiple rounds of quantitative easing.

The working and middle class are the drivers of the economy of this country.

The brinkmanship of the summer... was a negative for the financial markets.

I think that would create some certainty and maybe would allow some of the private sector securitization activities to resume.