I hope our service does credit to the men and women in uniform who have served us so very well. God bless Gabby Giffords, bless her staff, her constituents, the other innocent victims, bless this House and our great Nation.

Today we do begin a very important process, and it is a solid first step. And I stand to support this rule and to support repeal of this law, because we have on the books a law that doesn't improve the quality of health care. It will not…

Today is the beginning of a process by which the Republicans will try to repeal the affordable health care bill. It is about 50/50 in popularity in America. How can a bill with such individual constituent elements that are so popular, such…

I wanted to ask you a question. Because I had said, and I was, I think, incorrect, when I suggested that the first thing the Republicans wanted to do was repeal the affordable health care bill. It's one of their first major priorities. But…

In a few minutes, we are going to have the reading of the United States Constitution--a show for the American public--for anybody who knows anything about constitutional law knows that it is up to nine men and women as to what the…

And that's money we owe China; is that right? So it's okay to issue these securities and pay the Chinese the interest to be able to finance it, and our children and their grandchildren will be paying this if they don't have preexisting…

Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to share with you, and I want to first start because this day has been a day that started with the reading of the Constitution which is a document that we all revere. I have a little pocket copy of…

When I was a child, I had polio when I was 5 years old in 1954. I was fortunate. My father was a doctor, and so sometimes professional courtesy, but I'm sure he had insurance that covered my hospitalization. But there were years later, I…

Let me, if I can, read something that I've had prepared for today that came from a constituent's story, John Hopkins; and I know John Hopkins. He's a very important and active member in my community and contemporary. He sent me an email…

Let me ask a question. I was just thinking here, it's an honor to be in the House of Representatives and with a Constitution that's so beautiful that it says we are to promote the general welfare. We are among other industrialized nations…

What do the other industrialized nations in the world do for health care? Do they program policies like ours, where 32 million people don't have health insurance reform and they are not mandated to get insurance? What do they do?

And does the United States not have one of the greatest discrepancies of wealth between the richest and the poorest in the industrialized world as well? So are we saying to our wealthy people, ``You can afford health insurance so you can…

I just wanted to add one thing. Thank you. The gentleman from New Jersey brought up an issue, and he said that it was not true that it was costing jobs. There is some respected group, I think it's called FactCheck. They were on national…

Thank you, Mr. Yarmuth. Indeed, the issues that Mr. Courtney brought forward in his 1 minute today were alarming to me because my hometown of Memphis depends upon transportation. That's what makes it America's distribution center, the…

And they will control the amendments that will be permitted to be discussed on this floor. I know Speaker Boehner said we were going to be able to have amendments and be able to have good discourse.

I humbly rise today to welcome home the heroic soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's Task Force Rakkasan after a year's deployment in Afghanistan. Mr. Speaker, this morning we read aloud the document we are all sworn to protect and…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Massachusetts and Senators McCain and Lieberman. There are probably still some folks making up their minds on this treaty. I think most people have debated this at length and discussed it at length…

Mr. President, I would send to the desk the amendment, as modified, and as I understand it, this has been accepted by both sides. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the modification? Hearing no objection, the amendment is…