Our competition in the world is doing it. We need to keep up with the competition.

It's a great success story, when it comes to passenger rail in United States.

What can we do? We are taking two to three times as long on all types of transportation projects because of the environmental rules and regulations.

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 22, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' Stated against:

If I have to, I will subpoena people in and we will reveal what took place.

That is certainly a laudable goal. But we all know that the money isn't there for that yet.

President Obama and Congress have taken the first good first step by allocating $10 billion for high speed rail.

It's all about beating down the worker to the new wage level, which is 12 bucks.

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the Castor amendment to safeguard the local government security funds that come from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. I know a lot of the debate has been focused on public campaign financing…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, amend line 21 to read as follows: ``to the Office of Justice Programs for local law enforcement for costs…

Mr. Speaker, I represent a gulf coast district in Florida; so the safety of our coastlines is critical--it's of the utmost importance to me. I am troubled that Cuba is moving ahead with plans to drill oil 50 miles off Florida's coast…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart to also honor our first responders killed in the line of duty, two brave south Florida police officers shot and killed just this past week. Miami-Dade County veteran detectives 41-year-old Roger…

If you would attend to that, I sure would appreciate it.

I want to bring those frustrations to you, Mr. Feinberg, respectfully.

People are hurting. When you have your electricity shut off, they are hurting.

That is a step in the right direction.

Would it not have been a wise thing to do, to be beneficial to the people that are making the claim, to know how those claims were going to be evaluated before they submitted those claims?

At the end of the day, what we are trying to do is help people.