Who has the right to close? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has the right to close.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I have often referred to this palatial Hall as our Nation's classroom. It is the reason I feel that we should not just stand here to enunciate precepts; but as elected leaders, we…

Madam Speaker, Democrats in the Senate should work with the Republicans to act on the continuing resolution. House Republicans successfully passed a bill over 40 days ago, and Senate Democrats have still not acted. Liberals in the Senate…

Mr. Speaker, it is an honor today, one of the greatest honors I have had in Congress, to welcome Pastor Charles Jackson, Sr., of Brookland Baptist Church, West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina. Pastor Jackson is a longtime family…

...by centralizing and standardizing specific classes of financial transactions, clearinghouses reduce the costs and operational risks...

However, the flip side of the centralization of clearing and settlement activities in clearinghouses is the concentration of substantial financial and operational risk...

Mr. Speaker, I would like to take just a moment to associate myself with the remarks we just heard from Congressman Joe Wilson and to welcome my longtime friend, Reverend Charles Jackson, who when we meet in the barber shop I usually call…

This is unfortunate, because it seems that all the stakeholders were working together to reach a satisfactory and sustainable agreement.

The truth is that there's just no real evidence that the people of Libya--the body of the people of Libya really want to embrace al Qaeda, that I've seen.

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 471, the Scholarship Opportunity and Results Act, and against the Norton amendment. Coming from South Carolina, for 8 years in the general assembly, we debated the positive…

We cannot accommodate your budget request, especially when these requests will be used to prove that global warming is going to kill us all, polar bears included.

I believe he's an international terrorist and an unlawful enemy combatant.

We are spending $15 billion in 2010 to fight this war on drugs when there is no war on drugs.

I am amazed that the White House will not use that term.

I think you're on solid legal ground with the War Powers Act.

I'm hopeful, and pray, that Qadhafi does leave.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Schwaab, thanks for being here today.

The fact is that NMFS wants to increase the cost of the project to protect a fish that has not been within 70 miles of the dams in over 100 years.