We have to make sure that if that pay stops that we have a plan, do you agree with that, General Austin?

Madam Speaker, the health care takeover vote last night was a battle in the ongoing war between supporters of limited government and the forces of big government. The fight will continue as we promote limited government and expanded…

Mr. Speaker, as we vote on health care takeover, I urge Members of both parties to pay attention to the counsel of the National Federation of Independent Business, NFIB, the Nation's leading small business association. ``Small business has…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this flawed health bill. Mr. Speaker, I support the principles of Thomas Jefferson who stated ``I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, we have come to a defining moment in our Nation's history. Tonight I am thinking about the woman who called in to a talk radio program that I appeared on last August. She called…

Madam Speaker, my office got a call today from Mary Anne Ferguson, 91 years old from Point Breeze in Pittsburgh. She asked me to vote for health reform because she wants everyone to get the coverage she has. She remembers before Medicare…

Madam Speaker, Ronald Reagan once said the most terrifying words in the English language are, ``I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'' This is exactly what Washington liberals are trying to tell the American people. The scheme…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, Madam Speaker, and I rise in support of this resolution to honor our veterans who did so much to preserve our freedom during the Cold War. It is unfortunate that we may be about to pass a massive health…

Madam Speaker, the preliminary cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office for the health care takeover is $940 billion. It is bizarre. Some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are spinning this number. How many…

Madam Speaker, as backroom deals and threats continue to force a health care takeover vote, the costs from the Congressional Budget Office have just been released of nearly $1 trillion. State leaders across the country have recognized that…

Madam Speaker, yesterday's Wall Street Journal highlights the process by which Democrats are trying to pass this government health care takeover. The process is just as bad as the provisions of the bill. Professor Michael McConnell…

Madam Speaker, when I was driving into work last Friday, I heard the Governor of Arizona on the news saying that her State already faces its biggest deficit ever, over $3 billion. She said they had calculated that the health care bill…

Even Senator Lindsey Graham, who was recently in Afghanistan, says he saw firsthand how the old rule was failing soldiers and how dangerous suspects were being released because of the 96-hour time constraint.

Madam Speaker, this week it was announced that the unemployment rate in my home State reached a tragic new high of 12.6 percent. Statewide, 172,400 people have lost their jobs since the end of 2007. In this crisis, the administration has…

Mr. Speaker, the process that liberals are considering to take to pass the government health care takeover is almost as bad as the bill itself. The latest plan includes the House passing the Senate's version of the takeover bill, complete…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from South Carolina is recognized on the motion.

Mr. Speaker, this is a matter that properly belongs before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on…

Mr. Speaker, the House is considering today a dangerous resolution: the Afghanistan retreat. As a father of four sons in the military and as a former member of the 218th Brigade of the South Carolina National Guard, which served for a year…