Mr. Speaker, today I rise to highlight the foreclosure crisis and recognize the thousands of distressed families in my district and across the country who continue to battle foreclosure. In Maryland our foreclosures approached nearly…

I want to thank the gentleman from California for bringing this to our attention. I've been thinking a lot about the role of research and development to the 21st century and to 21st-century job creation. In fact, I've introduced along with…

I just hope that we are not being desensitized to the victims of murder in the United States as opposed to who they are.

I think radicalization and what we are doing in our prison system should be a concern.

Thank you, Mr. President. I wish to follow up on the comments of the Senators from Montana and Maryland who spoke so eloquently and clearly about the consequences of adopting the House resolution which sets spending levels for the next…

It is abundantly clear now that radicalization is a problem, that all of our youth are targeted.

Fifty percent go back. That is 7,500 crimes we know that will be committed.

Mr. Speaker, what happened to the rule of law? Last week, the U.S. Justice Department announced that President Obama would stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act. I remind you that the President took an oath to protect and defend the…

Mr. President, I thank my colleague. As Congress tries to get serious about cutting wasteful and reckless spending, I believe taxpayer subsidy of abortion providers should be among the first things to go. I personally believe it is morally…

Mr. Speaker, this country has never had an energy strategy. And the only thing worse than not having an energy strategy is having an energy policy that is actually hurting our country, hurting American energy production and American…

Madam President, I rise to focus on another grave threat to our economic recovery and jobs: skyrocketing energy prices, and particularly the price of gasoline at the pump. Madam President, I don't have to point out to Americans all over…

What analysis have you done on the economic impacts of a delayed and scaled-back leasing program under the OCS leasing program?

It is just important that we continue to press forward on that accelerator.

your agency delayed the next Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sale until next year.

Nearly 90 Members of Congress--from both parties and chambers--have written in support of increasing this competitive funding pot to 5 percent of title IIa.

Well, the nine of us are going to push you very hard to do that.

This subcommittee rallied in a bipartisan way because that program was zeroed out.

I think we have gone way off the cliff.