I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

Mr. President, it is time to stop discrimination. It is time to repeal don't ask, don't tell. This is a policy that should have been repealed long ago--long ago. It should have been repealed for its discriminatory nature. It should have…

As a member of that committee, I ask unanimous consent for 1 minute to finish this statement. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Thank you, Mr. President. Let me close by quoting from a letter from the Human Rights Campaign. I think it puts it purposely and exactly: . . . take a moment to truly comprehend the lives ruined over the last 17 years because of this…

If my colleague will yield, I am sure the distinguished Senator from Illinois knows from his long political history that when you toss and turn, you know what is right. You don't toss and turn if you have a commitment and conviction of the…

Last night, the House finally passed on a bipartisan basis and sent to the President a middle class tax relief package which also included extended unemployment insurance. For the middle class, it provides tax relief of $1,500 for a…

Mr. President, first of all, I want to send a heartfelt thanks to the distinguished Senator from Illinois, who has been spending nearly a decade trying to make the dreams of tens of thousands of students a reality. This is really an…

Madam President, I rise in support of a treaty that I actually think is of vital importance to our national security, to our national interests, and to our international reputation in the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. Let me first…

Our families are hanging by threads-- literally--as we debate this tonight. We know the economic wreckage that occurred between 2001 and 2008. Double unemployment, flat wages, and unbridled greed. We didn't do a very good job in correcting…

One of the most important reforms expands eligibility to all workers whose jobs have been moved overseas, not just for those jobs that were lost to our free trade partners. If we allow this provision to expire, workers whose jobs have been…

I thank my good friend for yielding. I want to thank Mr. Royce for this very, very important and timely resolution, and both the chairman and ranking member, Chairman Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, for bringing this very, very important…

I now yield 3 minutes to the sponsor of the legislation, the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps).

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of S. 3036, the National Alzheimer's Project Act, as amended. Last week, the Subcommittee on Health in the Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on…

I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Mrs. Christensen) who has been very much involved with this issue and who is also a physician.

I would like to yield 2 minutes now to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey).

Did CPC designation help mitigate religious persecution prior to being lifted? It appears so. The U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom notes that Hanoi released prisoners, it expanded some legal protections for nationally recognized…

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, worldwide, Communist dictatorships either crush or seek to control religious organizations. I have seen this in my 30 years as a Member of Congress. I remember in the early 1980s how the…

I thank my distinguished friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, as cochairman along with my good friend and colleague Congressman Ed Markey of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's, which we founded back in 1999, and as lead Republican…