What we are here to discuss is start a national dialogue in the open about what America's policy should be in this very volatile part of the world.

Yeah, one of the miracles is getting the bureaucracy to get off their butt.

We have spent $15 billion, you want to spend billions of dollars more in order to develop a plan of putting this in a hole and we don't even know if we can get anybody to agree to allow the hole to be near their community.

The bureaucracy, Mr. Chairman, is getting in the way of us moving forward.

I suggest, Mr. Chairman, that we make this a priority in this country and quit pouring money down a rat hole that we don't need to have.

Let me remind everyone that in 1957, which was before this Science Committee ever existed, the National Academy of Sciences recommended that deep burial of nuclear waste, that that would be the way we solve this problem.

Mr. Speaker, the clock is ticking on extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for millions of Americans. In just three short weeks, people barely surviving on unemployment benefits will be out on the streets. In three short…

I hear over and over from small businesses that the one thing they need in these tough times is customers. And who is the biggest customer? The Federal Government. Each year, the government spends $500 billion on Federal contracts, but…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the nine students from Arkansas' First District whom I have the privilege to nominate to a U.S. service academy. All of these students have demonstrated exceptional skills in the classroom. Not only…

Mr. President, I rise to discuss the continued attacks on the rights of women to control their own reproductive choices. Women should have access to comprehensive reproductive care and should be able to decide for themselves how to use…

I am pleased to support our colleague Mike Rogers' effort, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011.

I think that this is one of the best panels that has been assembled on a given subject matter and it is highly instructive.

You are an important part of democracy, all of you.

We are going to look, as a committee, at the law as it has changed under the Citizens United decision.

The law is what the Supreme Court says it is.

If I wasn't a Member of Congress, I would say you got you know what out of this.

Mr. President, today, along with Senator Conrad and others, I am introducing S. 2075, the Cut Unjustified Tax Loopholes Act, or CUT Loopholes Act. This legislation will help us meet three important goals: Reducing the budget deficit…

it may be an opportunity I think in 100 years or in 200 years is very much in my mind as we look at this issue.