This is an ongoing program that started in essence under the Bush administration?

I take issue with you saying that we are trying make political points with Officer Terry's death. To me it is personal. Okay? It is not political.

I would ask the Chairman that our Committee begin hearings on that because we need to be a partner with you.

I would like to put into the record that we recently passed, Mr. Secretary, H.R. 82, which allows anyone to carry a gun into another State where they have a permit.

Mr President, I would like to express my support for the Menendez amendment, which passed 100 to 0 and would sanction the Central Bank of Iran. I was proud to be an original cosponsor of this important legislation. The Islamic Republic of…

Mr. President, I rise to speak about the issue of the payroll tax and the tax cuts we are trying to enact, very similar to what we did last year when Democrats and Republicans came together at the end of the year, right before the holiday…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for 2 more minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The point of this letter is very simple. I won't read the whole letter, but here is the pertinent part of this letter from the Social Security Administration. We estimate that the projected level of the OASDI and DI Trust Funds would be…

I thank the chairman. Over the past year, I've met with hundreds of businesses throughout the Eighth District of Pennsylvania, and from each of them I've heard a common theme: uncertainty from constant new government regulation is impeding…

Madam Speaker, for decades the fundamentally flawed Medicare physician payment system has created uncertainty and instability, not only in the health care system but in the larger economy. Every year physicians face the threat of…

Mr. Speaker, I would like to introduce today's guest chaplain, Pastor Bryan Thiessen of the Journey Assembly of God Church in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. Since the first House chaplain was elected by Congress in 1789, it has been tradition…

Mr. Speaker, this is good, bipartisan legislation. I would like to thank Mr. Pallone, Mr. Green, Mr. Waxman, along with our side of the aisle, for developing and helping move this bipartisan legislation. I urge my colleagues to support it…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. H.R. 2405, introduced by my colleague Mike Rogers from Michigan, would reauthorize certain provisions of the Project Bioshield Act of 2004 and the Pandemic and All-Hazards…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2405) to reauthorize certain provisions of the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act relating to public health preparedness and…

Mr. Speaker, I would tell the gentleman from New Jersey that I have no other speakers.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Rogers), the prime sponsor of the legislation.

I would like to have the kind of oversight and regulation addressing the question of competitiveness.

I just will end on the note of the way I framed it, is that we are in this tight job market.