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Yes, I've talked to several of our unemployed back home. And boy, I tell you, I empathize with them. It's a tough position. I just talked to an unemployed truck driver. His benefits are running out, but yet the trucks that have been idled…
Mr. Speaker, I would also like to add that, as we heard, more than 1,000 Haitian orphans who were already in the process of being adopted by American families prior to the earthquake that struck Haiti last January stand today in legal…
On a happier note, this weekend I had the great honor of participating in the 2010 Special Olympics National Games opening ceremony in my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. The pomp and pageantry of the official ceremony appropriately welcomed…
For far too long, the approval of pending trade agreements with countries such as Colombia, South Korea, and Panama have languished, awaiting approval by Congress. According to research conducted by our colleagues on the Ways and Means…
I definitely agree, in part, with some of this bill in that we need transparency and some accountability, especially in the exotic instruments, but this bill also grants some carte blanche power over the financial markets, not just on Wall…
On Tuesday morning, under the beautiful prairie sky, U.S. Army Specialist Blaine Edward Redding was laid to rest in an old and serene Plattsmouth, Nebraska, cemetery. Specialist Redding was a 22-year-old newlywed, married just 10 weeks to…
Mr. Speaker, the time to stop Iran's nuclear drive is running very short. Unless the community of responsible nations takes decisive actions, the world will soon awake to the headline, Iran has a nuclear bomb. A nuclear-armed Iran will…
The national debt just surpassed $13 trillion. Since 2000, the national debt and government spending have doubled, and in simple terms, every American citizen now owes $42,000 toward this debt. To govern is to choose, Mr. Speaker, and…
At its most fundamental level, the duty of Congress is to steward the tax revenue. Lately, all Congress has been doing is spending it. Through the first 8 months of the current fiscal year, the Federal Government amassed $941 billion in…
This bill has short-term extensions and permanent tax hikes and still, over time, puts $54 billion onto our national debt. Now, there are some of these extensions that we would all support if they were offset. But adding to the national…
The reforms we have embarked on over the last 16 months... are substantive and systematic, not just cosmetic.
We believe, however, that they are crucial to ensuring that we carry out our responsibilities effectively.
This is clearly a violation. And it will be thrown out by the courts. There is no doubt in my mind that it will be.
No. He could not. He is completely wrong. It's more than just what you look like, it's behaviors.
Today the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources is holding a hearing examining the Obama administration's policies of increasing taxes on and reducing funding for American energy production. Finding solutions to our country's…
There will be no straight up-and-down vote on a health care bill. Instead, the leadership has chosen a procedural trick to insert the Senate bill into a rule deeming the Senate bill passed. So if you vote for the rule, you are voting for…
I have confidence that General McChrystal, after a thorough and painstaking calculus, has provided a clear plan to increase stability in Afghanistan and allow our troops to withdraw as quickly and as responsibly as possible. Moreover, now…
