So what specifically are you doing with this partnership?

I get real tired of this Republican-Democrat battle. I just want to talk about patients here.

Madam Speaker, while deliberations continue on dealing with our $14.3 trillion debt and while deliberations continue on raising the debt ceiling, Americans are very concerned about where we're going. June unemployment at 9.2 percent and a…

Americans need jobs. This fact was emphasized once again last Friday with the release of the June unemployment numbers.

Chairman Casey.

It is important to mention Texas here, too.

H.R. 1366, my National Manufacturing Strategy Act, would require government and private sector stakeholders to assess the current state of American manufacturing.

Is there anything that we do here, or can do by way of WIA or otherwise, legislation or strategies that we can employ here that will incentivize or foster that kind of, I guess for lack of a better word, engagement between the particular…

We need a two-pronged approach to address this problem.

Manufacturing in all its forms is critical for America's economic future and for our national defense.

We cannot simply zero out this important program, as the administration has requested, and hope that other Federal programs not specifically dedicated to pediatric health care will pick up the slack.

This is not a partisan issue; it is about children's health and lives. I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the Senate's upcoming trade agenda and its impact on Pennsylvania workers and Pennsylvania jobs. Like so many of our States, Pennsylvania has always played a critically important role in America's…

Our affordable and predictable natural gas prices are a direct result of our ability to produce it through horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing.

It appears to me the Forest Service has no credible reason for moving in this direction.

I am extremely concerned about the Forest Service placing a moratorium on applications for permits to drill any 'horizontal well and associated hydraulic fracturing.'

Any action to prevent their development should be based on sound science and fact, not philosophy and not political agendas.

I cannot let stand the accusation that the Obama Administration is somehow banning horizontal drilling on public lands based on what is happening in the George Washington National Forest.