This is certainly a fascinating hearing.

I think it is important that the first question I want to ask is that by permitting the BDCs to invest all of these funds in financial firms instead of the nonfinancial small businesses, would not that divert capital from the small…

And would not this turning this on its head eliminate all of the provisions intended to protect preferred stock investors?

Bill Young will be forever known as one of the strongest supporters of our military and veterans in the history of this Congress.

I rise in full support of the legislation before us this evening to rename the Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Florida the C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Madam President, in the words of Yogi Berra, ``It's deja vu all over again.'' It seems as though every several months this administration manages to repeat the same disturbing pattern of treating captured foreign terrorists first and…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded and that I be allowed to speak as if in morning business The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Detaining Terrorists

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 58) expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need for the continued availability of religious services to members of the…

Will States like Colorado be fully reimbursed for their expenses that they are incurring right now?

It was so reprehensible.

This decision of yours was not good. It was not good for the American people, and it is not good for the park system either.

You have besmirched its reputation and you have soured its relationship with Congress.

Mr. Speaker, Republicans have again recklessly threatened America's future by allowing the Nation, already in a Republican shutdown, to default on its debt unless the Congress votes to stop ObamaCare. The government has been shut down for…

There will be a deal in my opinion.

Who was the one person who would not negotiate? President Obama.

This is going to be an ongoing process, though, and if you look at the current rollout and you look at the number of people reporting that their insurance prices are going up, not down, I suspect we're going to be debating Obamacare at…

Elections have consequences.

Well, look, I think that this is the beginning of a long conversation. I think the country does understand we've got to get our deficits under control.