Let me give you another example of what we can do with policy. Right now we have a ``Buy American'' policy that really has not been enforced much. So I've introduced a piece of legislation, H.R. 613, that simply says that if it's our tax…

Wouldn't you love to go into Wal-Mart and find ``Made in America''? Wouldn't that be something?

I don't think we're talking about a law or a new regulation here, but we're talking about something that we ought to do for our communities, and that is recognize that we're all part of a community. You said something a few moments ago…

We should work together. Excuse me for interrupting, but in my district, we have a ravioli company. We're talking out of this world. Now, maybe your sauce on top of their raviolis we could actually get on the shelf.

Before we go back to Make It in America, which is our principal policy, at least among those of us who are talking about the Make It in America agenda, I want to just make it very clear that this debate over the payroll tax reduction and…

If I might interrupt for just a moment, you raised a very, very important point about the fate of the American middle class and of the extraordinary benefit that has grown for the top 1 percent. This is where the 99 percent comes in. Let…

It really does, if I might take a moment here. You raised one of the very important points. I know later in this discussion you're going to take this up in much more detail. But it's very, very clear that the financial sector, in their…

Mr. Speaker, thank you for the opportunity this evening. I'm joined by my colleague from Ohio, Marcy Kaptur. I want to thank our colleague from Texas for the explanation he gave about the tragedy at Fort Hood. It was, indeed, an American…

I see it in my own district in California. One of the things that we've been trying to do is to take up the President's call on this matter. The President, back in September, put forth the American Jobs Act. Many pieces of it. We'll talk…

I thank you very much, Mr. Tonko, for bringing that up. I'm going to ask Ms. Kaptur of Ohio to take the podium here and to tell us about Wall Street and some of the reforms that she is advocating.

First let me thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding. He is a former member of the Intelligence Committee, and I just have to thank him for his tremendous leadership and for his opening statement which laid out many of the concerns…

Well, first of all, I just saw a recent poll that said that 59 percent of Californians would reject the bond package.

Mr. Speaker, as we gather here, President Obama is at Fort Bragg honoring and thanking our men and women in uniform for their service in the war in Iraq and for the sacrifices they've been willing to make to keep us the home of the brave…

If the opinion is of a taxpayer where to spend the money, you ought to do it like Willie Sutton said.

If they don't do it right, they are going to wreck havoc all along the way.

What that is doing is saying we have a responsibility to the taxpayers.

It is our responsibility and our stewardship to make the decisions of where our tax dollars go.

That may make for a very good Hollywood movie, 'Build it and they will come,' but I don't think that is what the taxpayers say when they sent us here.