we urge you to make clear to President Abbas and to the international community the United States opposition to a Fatah-Hamas unity government that does not fully accept the Quartet Principles.

The breadth of the job gains shows that the recovery is strengthening, but clearly there is more to be done.

We need to continue to make certain we have a strategy that actually reaches and speaks to the people of Pakistan.

The real conflict is not between the United States and Pakistan but within Pakistan itself.

Uzbekistan is an important partner in the Northern Distribution Network, which is a major strategic priority for the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

The United States, however, must balance our strategic interests in Uzbekistan with the need to hold the government accountable for serious human rights abuses.

Back in the 1990s when I was a State Senator I authored and we passed into law, actually got bipartisan support, a Patient Bill of Rights Law, and much of that was dealing with at that time the problems of managed care, where we found out…

the Medicare and Medicaid systems in my mind are so hopelessly outmoded that the old tool, when everything looks like a hammer, everything--when the only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and all Congress knows how to do is…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to express my strong support for H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. I believe strongly that every human life should be protected, whether born or yet to be born. As the father of two adopted…

We need to be sensitive to both sides of this story.

the refocusing of our economic assistance specifically so that we get not only the results within country...

The truth is, even before bin Laden's death, our relationship with Pakistan has been strained recently, even fragile.

We can play a role in promoting stability and prosperity, but we have to, in doing that, appreciate how deep anti-American sentiments run.

we have to have a game plan and stick to it...

Madam Speaker, how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 30 seconds remaining.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, the bill before us today should be a no-brainer. Americans overwhelmingly reject the use of taxpayer funds for abortion. In several polls over the last few years…

I earnestly hope we can work together on a bipartisan basis to solve this issue this year.

I hope that this hearing will not focus narrowly on options that would shift our problems paying for the SGR onto beneficiaries.