I think we all agree we don't want our capital, our jobs, our companies fleeing the United States because our system is second-rate. Nor do we want to trade safety for expediency.

Mr. Speaker, today I return from a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Varna, Bulgaria, where the U.S. delegation was chaired by Congressman Mike Turner, accompanied by Mike Ross, Jo Ann Emerson, and Jeff Miller. We were welcomed…

Mr. Speaker, it was an honor to have Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speak to a joint session of Congress yesterday. Israel is one of our country's closest allies, and the partnership shared between our two countries is vital in…

Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on passage of…

Madam Speaker, last month, Republicans voted to end Medicare. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, their plan would raise seniors' health care costs by more than $6,000 per year, doubling their out-of-pocket costs…

In its current form, I am, Madam Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Clyburn moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1216 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with…

Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 342, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Stated against:

good luck

if you put all your eggs in one basket, you better watch that basket.

I am very alarmed that our administration is not identifying who our enemy is.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. Congratulations, Mr. Chairman, on your leadership--achieving a 60-1 favorable vote on the bill that we are considering this evening. As we begin, we are grateful for the professionalism of our…

Mr. Speaker, in the last 2 years, the price of a gallon of gasoline has more than doubled. During his campaign, the President promised to skyrocket energy costs, and that's exactly what has happened. House Republicans are leading the way…

To echo what both of my colleagues have already said, I would say this: Not only is there a tremendous natural climate and business climate in the State of South Carolina, but you will not find a group of people more appreciative for the…

I thank my colleague, Mr. Gowdy. His words are well considered and well made and I think bear out the decision of the people of his district to send him to Washington. This is perhaps the first real challenge we have faced together as a…

My question to you, Mr. Gowdy, and to you, Mr. Speaker, would be this: Why would there even be a strategy? What is this talk of strategy that the NLRB is charged with enforcing the law? There should be no strategy involved with that…

Mr. Speaker, I think it's important to realize in this discussion that this is not just an attack on one company, nor is just an attack more broadly at some of the principles that we hold to be so dear. This is a specific attack on the…

Not only, Congressman, had I heard about that, but I read a quote attributed to the NLRB just this week where they were advising Boeing and its counsel not to litigate this in the media. Imagine the arrogance of telling a company not to…

My colleague from South Carolina raises the second issue, doesn't he? It wasn't just the complaint against Boeing. It was also the threatened litigation over South Carolina having the unmitigated temerity to want to memorialize the right…