This legislation is desperately needed because a lack of funding has been a critical barrier to protecting the Parkway's forests, streams and vistas.

Thank you to the Chairman and Ranking Member for your ongoing efforts to preserve and enhance our nation's most pristine natural landscapes and historic national heritage areas.

Thank you, Chairman Harkin. Secretary Duncan, thanks for your testimony today. I appreciated your quote, 'that we are going to be moving from a compliance monitor to a creative innovator.'

We certainly need to replicate that in every school in our country. If our students had had that knowledge, I don't think we would be where we are today. We have got to enforce that.

We have to put scarce resources where we need it most, in those art, music, drama, PE--physical education.

I think we have a critical shortage of math and science teachers in our schools and in our country.

Does the university pick up any of that $12 million cost?

This bill has bipartisan, bicameral support from North Carolina and Virginia. It is important for the continued enjoyment of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Madam Speaker, every process must end. After dozens of hearings on health care, we have all of the information that we need to create strong legislation to provide much needed health insurance reform. The American people cannot wait. It is…

I urge the subcommittee to support this effort, and to recognize that a renewed investment in the Blue Ridge Parkway is an investment in the North Carolina economy.

Madam Speaker, this week we are going to be taking up, we think, a job killing so-called health care reform bill that the American people do not want but that the Democratic leadership and the President are determined to cram down our…

Madam Speaker, yesterday I held a town hall in Statesville, North Carolina, to hear from my constituents about health care reform. One thing was abundantly clear: they do not want this bill, and they're sick and tired of the backroom deals…

Mr. Speaker, Republicans have been talking for over 3 years about the problem of the debt and deficit facing our Nation. We, as well as average Americans, have realized that these problems are a threat to our existence as the greatest and…

Well, I want to thank both of my colleagues, my classmates, actually--my colleague from Georgia (Mr. Westmoreland) and my colleague from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) for their insights and for their sharing of information in this Special Order…

I want to thank my colleagues from Ohio and Pennsylvania for organizing this Special Order today. Today, we are marking National Women's History Month, and we are commemorating the brave and principled women who have spoken out and who…

if DIY is not part of this program, then I don't see how I could support this program, even consider it.

I think that just contributes to I think what CRS said, that we've got a grandiose goal that we're shooting for and a historical understanding that we're not going to get there.

I do know that the post-9/11 GI Bill has been a huge benefit.