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In fact, Congressman Markey and I are working on this.

PREA was created to ensure that drug companies were doing important clinical trials in children.

I wish to extend the academy's sincerest thanks to Representative Anna Eshoo for her longstanding support and for championing these important laws for children.

I come here today with a great sense of pride and I welcome the comments and the questions that members have asked.

Would it be helpful to you to have legislation that addresses what I just stated?

It has always been a great source of pride to me to have served on this subcommittee for some 15 years.

At the end of the day, it's about jobs. Those jobs, if they're in the manufacturing sector, will be middle- American jobs, and it will reignite the American Dream. Men and women can see the opportunity. They can see the opportunity to buy…

That history of partnership goes back to the very first President of this Nation. George Washington set up an industrial policy: Mr. Hamilton, Go out and develop an industrial policy because we're going to make things in America. So at the…

Ms. Sheila Jackson Lee, thank you very much for once again joining us in these dialogues and how America can make it. Certainly if we make it in America, we'll be well on our way. Manufacturing does matter. Just this last weekend I was in…

Mr. Tonko, thank you very much for your leadership and your steadfastness on this issue of rebuilding the American middle class. The President spoke here less than 2 weeks ago on the issue of manufacturing, on the issue of jobs and making…

If I might interrupt just a second, I'm going to complete the story you told on the floor here just by my memory. If I'm wrong, please correct me. But he told Alexander Hamilton to develop an industrial policy for America.

Well, don't leave us, because we are going to go around on this subject again. Mr. Blumenauer, you were kind of anxious to jump in with some ideas.

And the transportation system goes with it. Mr. Blumenauer, you are rightfully talking about the glories of Portland, Oregon; however, I want to bring to your attention that streetcars are now being manufactured in Sacramento, California…

You've used some very, very challenging words for us, reigniting the American Dream. We have an opportunity. It's this week. This House is going to take up in the Transportation Committee an extraordinarily important bill that speaks to…

Well, Mr. Altmire, you're raising the San Francisco Bay Bridge fiasco, which is one that gets the adrenaline flowing in California because the State of California decided they would put it out to bid. And there were two bids that came out…

Well, that's exactly what we should do. About 2 months ago, the gentlelady from Illinois spoke on the floor about a history lesson that I was unaware of. I'm not sure she wants to go into that today, but it dates back to the Presidency of…

So those free traders who say get government out of the way need to go back to the very history, the very beginning of history of this where President George Washington told his Treasury Secretary to develop an industrial policy for…

Mr. Tonko, a few moments ago, you talked about reigniting the American Dream. So how are you going to do that?