I can't think of anybody more qualified than you.

I thank my colleague and now, Mr. Speaker, I would like to request that our colleagues rise and honor Fred Heineman with a moment of silence. The SPEAKER pro tempore. If Members will please rise, the House will observe a moment of silence…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask our colleagues to observe a moment of silence in memory of our former colleague, Representative Fred Heineman, who represented North Carolina's Fourth District in the 104th Congress. Fred passed away Saturday…

Let me thank the gentlewoman for yielding me this time, and thank her for all of her good work on the legislation. For the past 12 to 14 months, I have watched you as you have worked tirelessly to get a finished product that we can all be…

Mr. Davis, I want to thank you so much for the presentation you've made. And I just really enjoy the stories that you tell and the way you represent the people of your congressional district. You know, all of us have unique congressional…

Mr. Speaker, ``once to every man and nation,'' wrote the great abolitionist poet James Russell Lowell, ``comes the moment to decide.'' Mr. Speaker, there are moments in history when it becomes clear that we simply cannot wait any longer to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding the time and for the hard work of the Rules Committee. Mr. Speaker, I come to the well of the House today to support the rule and to commend President Obama and the Democratic leadership for their…

Mr. Speaker, the legislation we're about to vote on represents one of the most offensive pieces of social engineering legislation in the history of the United States, and the American people recognize this simple truth. Even the ruling…

Mr. Speaker. I woke up this Sunday morning, said my prayers, and finally decided that I will vote ``yes'' on health care reform. Having heard from tens of thousands of Middle Tennesseans on all sides of the issue (including the flood of…

Madam Speaker, we have to respond to those comments that are being made. Republicans did nothing? We did a lot. We opened up HSAs, health savings accounts, for Americans. We passed three bills in my first 2 years here that would allow for…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 31 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Saturday, March 20, 2010, at 9 a.m. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I think the gentleman from Florida has made our case by bringing up the fact that Medicare is a government program. It's going broke. Medicare costs were 20 times more than what was estimated for part of the program, seven…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my three colleagues who were here for the last hour doing yeoman's work on explaining why this so-called health care reform bill is bad, why it's unconstitutional, why it does not deserve to be passed. I want to…

Mr. Speaker, I now yield 3 minutes to our distinguished colleague from California (Mr. Daniel E. Lungren).

Mr. Speaker, I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana, Dr. Cassidy.

Mr. Speaker, some comments are so far from reality that they're not really worth responding to. I'd like to now yield 3 minutes to my colleague, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Rogers).

Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York controls the time.

Mr. Speaker, I would now like to yield 4 minutes to my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder).