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Thank you, the gentleman from Kansas. You hit on something. Obama's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, before he was nominated to be the Secretary of Energy, wanted to figure out how to boost the price of a gallon of gasoline in this country to…

It says the United States shall guarantee every State in this Union a republican form of government...

I want to commend the gentlewoman from Texas for acknowledging the facts that we do have a problem...

Mr. Speaker, sadly, with the unemployment rate rising on Friday, today's Investor's Business Daily's lead editorial is correct: With unemployment now at 9.2 percent and job growth at a standstill, is there anyone not blinded by ideology or…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself 5 minutes. I rise in opposition to this bill. I was on the committee back in 2007 when we first wrote the efficiency standards that Republicans are trying to repeal here today. The way I remember it, our…

I yield myself 30 additional seconds. CFL is making a new factory in Ohio to meet the demand. Seven thousand U.S. jobs have been created by companies like Cree in North Carolina, Lighting Science Group in Florida, and Lighting Philips…

On taxes, spending, trade, and regulation, every signal from federal policymakers to job creating businesses and entrepreneurs is that success will be punished.

The only sure-fire training and skill development program I know of is actually having a job.

The State Department's failure to issue a construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline... is estimated to create over 13,000 high-wage manufacturing and construction jobs.

By the Obama Administration's own standards, its stimulus plan has failed spectacularly to create jobs.

History demonstrates that business investment in new buildings, equipment, and software--not federal spending--drives the creation of new payroll jobs.

The economic policies of President Obama and Congressional Democrats are failing to revive our moribund economy.

I urge Republicans and Democrats in both Houses of Congress to seize this opportunity.

The Senate will soon be reconsidering the Workforce Investment Act.

The Administration's economic policies keep businesses guessing what onerous burdens await them.

The best job training programs are meaningless if there are no jobs available for their graduates.

the liability of doing business in America seems to continue to increase, and periodic episodes like the National Labor Relations Board going after a company like Boeing just tell us that it appears that this Administration, and even this…

Every news report about ongoing debt limit negotiation reaffirms the Administration's insistence on new taxes.