Yes, this is a real tragedy. I mean, after the 2009 shooting, this incredible military family of Fort Hood is going through another real disaster.

It's going to be an active shooting because there was a second shooter reported, very similar to the report we got in the Hasan shooting initially.

Madam Speaker, last week, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences released a new report titled ``What We Know.'' The report states unequivocally that climate change is a scientific fact, that human activity is linked to…

Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the fifth anniversary of the tragic murder of a Georgia citizen who volunteered for the Peace Corps, who traveled to West Africa to the nation of Benin and lost her life. She lost her life because she…

I am going to ask you the question that I get asked constantly. It is the number-one question I get asked by privates and generals, active duty and retired.

So I am waiting for the answer 'no.'

I have been in Congress for 12 years, and in that 12-year period of time we have talked about the issue Mrs. Lowey raised.

I just don't quite understand how... the conclusion has been reached without... a legal opinion.

I appreciate that follow up. The gentleman knows of what he speaks and I'm just still perplexed as to why, without a legal opinion, all of a sudden someone comes up with the wisdom that it's beyond the scope.

I want to express my enthusiastic support of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project.

That's not a legal opinion. That's a political opinion, would you say?

It does not appear to be a legal opinion. I go back to my political science 101 at Morehouse College, where we were told that politics was nothing more, nothing less than who gets what, when and how.

It does not seem to be--it doesn't appear to be consistent with the will of the Congress, and we're facing what appears to be a challenge of the separation of powers.

We've been waiting for this project for a decade, and it's putting the United States and the Savannah Harbor at a great disadvantage when we are competing with the Panama Canal.

There are not many issues that unite the Georgia delegation like this one.

I know that Susan cannot be with us today because she is doing everything back home to help those in need.

It addressed the root cause of the financial crisis by reigning in too big to fill financial institutions on Wall Street.

Though imperfect, passing the Dodd-Frank Act was a crucial step in resetting our Nation's economic course.