
Thank you all for attending this important hearing on reviving our economy and the role higher education and job growth initiatives will play in doing so.
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Thank you all for attending this important hearing on reviving our economy and the role higher education and job growth initiatives will play in doing so.

We have 14 million Americans without jobs, and so we need to be focused on this issue.

I have physicians talking all the time about, Congressman Wilson, much older than you, but people coming in but really their minds are telling them they are still vibrant, they can still do these things.

So I am really happy to say that these opportunities are really growing.

I had the privilege of being an intern in his office several years ago.

Mr. Speaker, today the House Republicans want to eliminate funding for NPR, some because they think the government shouldn't operate a news service and some because they think the reporting is biased. I believe they're wrong on both…

It is us, up here, who have not figured that out yet.

the Nation was on course for a cataclysm that could have rivaled or surpassed the Great Depression.

If you do not act in the next 2 weeks, we will have a global financial meltdown.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor life and the work of a ministry that is literally saving lives in the State of South Carolina. But before I begin, let us pause to recognize our friends in Japan and the tragic loss of life there. The…

The issues around the world and Japan are very concerning to me, because I have been to Japan and my heart goes out to the folks there.

American energy independence, that is what we are talking about.

the impact of the de facto moratorium on the Gulf Coast states.

the Savannah River Site handles the most sensitive nuclear materials and seeks to ensure that the legacy weapons materials once used in the nuclear weapons that kept our country safe are used in the future hopefully for energy production.

I am deeply concerned with the regulatory overreach that we have seen. I believe it cripples the economy.

I have seen the refining capacity in St. Bernard Parish, and my heart still goes out to the folks in Louisiana for the Katrina Hurricane.