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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to submit my remarks in opposition to the Republican bill that weakens protections for violence against women and in support of the bipartisan Senate bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to…
I'd like to thank Representative Scott for his leadership on this issue. I'd like to thank Chairman Bachus for his support for all of the work that has gone into flood insurance reform. I rise today in support of H.R. 5740, the National…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize May as National Foster Care Month. The goal of this month is to raise awareness about the experiences and needs of more than 400,000 youth in the foster care system. Throughout the month, members of…
Well, let's hope we do it sooner than later so that they can be driving their Tesla Roadsters.
Well, we can certainly try to encourage it. I don't know if you have any more thoughts.
Well, thank you, Congressman, for your great presentation and your passion around making it in America, which should be underscored, because one of the great things that happens in my district is a lot of innovation. Tesla, which is an…
Yes. It goes very fast, and it's all electric. So he took it for a little spin, came back and said, I want to buy it. The salesperson says, Well, you're the first person who has ever come in here and literally bought it after just a…
Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. I will be joined during this hour by my good friend and colleague from California, Congressman John Garamendi. I would like to just begin this discussion on oil prices by recalling that in 2008, the…
The next chart that we're going to put up is one that you'll find particularly interesting. This is the Big Five oil companies and how much money they made just in 2011. As can you see, $137 billion last year--a 75 percent increase in the…
So we know that we're pumping more oil out of the ground in this country right now than ever before in our history, more than is being pumped anywhere else in the world--1,300 oil rigs. We know that we are still giving the industry a huge…
An interesting point along the same lines, maybe 4 or 5 years ago, the percentage of speculation in the oil market was 30 percent. The speculators were involved in about 30 percent. About 70 percent were end-users that were in the market…
So let's talk about what the solution is to protect Americans from volatile gas prices and to kick our dependence on foreign oil. That becomes the secret. {time} 2000 I mean, by every focus, if we kick our dependence on foreign oil, we are…
Thank you. And I think at this point we have covered all of the issues we wanted to cover during this Special Order tonight. And I just want to leave my colleagues with this message. Again, this was quoted in USA Today. Citigroup analysts…
It is time for us to admit that our strategy about Iran, a nuclear armed Iran, is not working.
Mr. Speaker, first let me suggest that I join with my colleagues in honoring the memory of Chuck Colson, a man who also meant a lot to me as an individual. Those of us who come from California and remember Richard Nixon coming out there…
To clarify my position, President Reagan was responsible for the death of the Marines in Lebanon.
We were losing how many jobs a month? We were losing 800,000 jobs a month when our President took over. The country was falling apart. He saved the auto industry--it is back on top--when others said: Let them go bankrupt. He started the…