For every billion dollars we spend, it generates 44,000 permanent jobs.

Our reality is we are spending $1.5 trillion a year more than we are taking in, and we are borrowing it from China.

The legislation that is under consideration this morning is really designed to address many of the things that you have mentioned.

We know that homelessness puts kids at a much higher risk of educational failure.

If we continue with the direction we are going, we know even with projects that really make sense, we are having to question them and cut some of them.

I have always thought that this Committee has one of the most interesting jurisdictions in the world because, with the exclusive economic zones throughout all of the territories and atolls and everything that the United States owns, the…

You will leave with great pride, lasting pride, secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people begin a new chapter in history.

We will never forget the lessons of war. Men and women of the United States armed forces who served in places like Fallujah and Ramadi and Sadr City.

The only way to protect these industries and ocean-users and their contributions to the national economy is to reduce the amount of marine debris in the environment.

This outcome was never certain, especially during the war's darkest days. You came to this land between the rivers, again and again.

But when the people of California looked at the facts, they want to vote it down today.

I want to thank you for your leadership on this issue and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

According to the National Academy of the Sciences, we dump more than 14 billion pounds of trash into the ocean every year.

Our beaches and oceans have turned into landfills.

Self defense is one thing. Conducting a fight for liberty and justice is another. I think we as Americans do support the right of people to fight for their freedom and to win their freedom against tyranny.

I have often thought about writing a book about diplomacy and I think if I ever do, it is going to be entitled, 'The Art of Juggling.'

I am disappointed today in the apprehension that I am hearing about armed resistance to tyranny.

I think we are sending the wrong message.