Mr. President, I shared recently with my colleagues my concern about the surging Federal debt and the ramifications that arise from that, and how it has a damaging effect in ways a lot of people have not considered on our economy and on…

I appreciate my friend from Iowa yielding. What was one of the most heartbreaking aspects of this health care bill that was crammed down the throats of Americans, a majority of whom were begging and pleading and demanding not to pass it…

I yield myself as much time as I may consume for closing remarks. {time} 1930 Mr. Speaker, if the Democrat stimulus plan had worked as promised, we wouldn't be here tonight. If we had really created 3.7 million new jobs, as President Obama…

I yield myself 30 seconds. I would remind people the Democratic Congress handed President Obama a trillion dollar deficit, eight times larger than Republicans when we held this Congress. The stimulus bill alone was larger than the Iraq and…

Evelyn Mezzich is 32 years of age. She has a husband, a 2-year-old son, and she has a college degree she earned in the United States. Evelyn Mezzich is also a charged killer and an absconder from the law. In a gross miscarriage of justice…

For as long as I can remember, America has reached for the stars. Nothing has gotten more kids to do their math and science homework than the dream of being an astronaut. All of America stood still, huddled at their black-and-white TV…

I want to thank the chairman, Mr. Oberstar; the subcommittee chairwoman also, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson); Ms. Pingree also for the work she has done; and, of course, our ranking members, Mr. Boozman, for the…

Madam President, later today, President Obama will travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He will visit with employees and officials there and deliver a speech on his vision for NASA. We have begun to learn the details about some…

I will highlight a number of quotes from these documents. Let me start with a letter by three of our Nation's renowned astronauts, true American heroes: Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11; James…

I thank the Speaker for the recognition. I thank the leadership on my side for allowing me to talk this hour. Mr. Speaker, it is April 15. It is the day that we file our taxes, or in some cases we submit a request for an extension. In the…

American workers have just won a great and historic victory. Employees of Mohawk Industries will share the $18 million that the company agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit accusing it of hiring illegal immigrants in order to hold down wages…

It is always nice to agree with the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. I too support Senate Joint Resolution 25. This resolution grants Congress' approval to amendments that the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, first of all, I want to thank my Texas colleague Mr. Ortiz for introducing this resolution. It reflects well on him and on a wonderful individual who has contributed so much. I…

To my left is the Media Fairness Caucus' Newsweek Wall of Shame, a collection of the magazine's very biased cover articles. Previous covers have featured Vice President Al Gore with the caption, ``The Thinking Man's Thinking Man''…

It is not often that you come to the floor of the House with joy and with sadness. And it is with both that I stand to honor a fallen friend, Lenora ``Doll'' Carter, a champion of a woman, and of course someone who led in our community…

Well, we do have the danger of Iran about to go nuclear at the same time, as you all have pointed out, that our President cancelled what took so long and took such great effort by so many, including our friends in Poland, to establish this…

Mr. President, we seem to be muddling along here with short-term extensions and incremental stimulus bills to deal with a failure as this Congress decides what we are going to do about unemployment insurance and physicians' pay and things…

The First Amendment gives the American people the right to petition the Congress for redress of grievances and to express freedom of speech. Several weeks ago, the chairman of the committee that I serve as a ranking member on, Energy and…