I appreciate his continued support for our bipartisan reform efforts.

I think you are exactly the right Secretary for the challenges before this Nation.

So, do you support the 5 percent----

the fiscal year 2012 budget request reflects the administration's policy priorities and remains a good starting point.

we will not sacrifice the core investments we need to grow and create jobs and protect our workforce.

getting America back to work is a top administration priority.

The President's budget proposes $2.5 billion over 10 years to align financial incentives with improved outcomes for children in foster care.

Do you think that is something we need to address in terms of making sure that those cockpits are secured?

I am looking forward to your leadership of this subcommittee.

So for at least domestic or United States, we don't have a standard--we don't have a rule.

Thank you, Ranking Member Levin. Madam Speaker, I agree with the Republican chorus that we've been hearing now for 2 days, which is let's repeal this onerous provision of the 1099 requirement. However, even as a freshman member of the…

Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues came down here yesterday, and will do so again today, like a well-rehearsed choir singing the same song: Repeal the 1099 provision, repeal the 1099 provision. They sang it in perfect harmony. However…

Mr. Speaker, well, here we are. It's 8 weeks into the 112th Congress and still not a single Republican proposal to create jobs and strengthen our economy. No jobs proposals and no jobs. Instead, we have a series of reports stating really…

Mr. Speaker, the time to act on this provision is now. Why? It's very, very simple. It's about jobs. It's about removing an onerous provision, a burdensome provision on small businesses that create jobs. If we wonder why we have a high…

Natural gas and petroleum products. And if you shut down our natural gas production, then our companies, which have a price--on a basis of price, we can compete because we have cheap natural gas here in this country compared to around the…

Yes. We know we have the world's largest reserves in coal. We have potentially the largest reserves in the world in natural gas here in the United States. And some argue that the estimates of oil are vastly underestimated because of two…

The government continually reaffirmed its intention and resolve to restore the moratorium.

isn't this really an overall policy by the Administration to allow gas prices to go up, to allow energy prices, fossil fuels, to go up by constricting fossil fuel production in order to allow alternative fuels, which are not really cutting…