These are private-sector jobs. They're good-paying jobs, and they help promote U.S. energy security. It's critical. So what we have is an administration that is proposing policies counter to what American interests are with regard to our…

I thank my friend from Missouri for giving me time to speak here. As we talk about American competitiveness and growing jobs, private sector jobs in this country, coming off the heels of this recession where we still have high…

It's ridiculous. And these taxes are indiscriminate; they hit oil companies, those drilling for oil, but also natural gas. {time} 1830 And there are many--even our friends on the other side of the aisle will admit that natural gas usage is…

We have basically shut down our production in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's a boneheaded policy to do that. But not only that, the administration in its budget proposal is now proposing nearly $50 billion in new taxes on small, independent…

Madam President, I rise in strong support of the Lee amendment, which is a sense of the Senate that this body and the House should pass a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Clearly, I think in the mind of every American…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 115

Well, it is bizarre. And again, Americans want to compete. And we know, if given the opportunity to compete, we can win in the global economy. And we've got to have energy production in this country to allow our companies to compete. Now…

We are having an issue in Louisiana that I think rises, in my opinion, to a Homeland Security issue, especially when you talk disaster response.

I have made it one of my priorities as Chair of this committee to do what I can.

It is clear to me that small businesses need reliable and non-predatory financing opportunities in both the debt and equity market in order to start, to grow, and to succeed.

If this recovery is going to be evenly felt across the country, it is going to take a well-resourced and well-structured and well-managed SBA.

The other thing I would just like to add, especially as States start to deal with major budget problems, especially Louisiana, and we deal with our own budget problems up here, the grants for emergency preparedness, for event planning…

And so finally, to address the real problem in the country with this runaway spending, what we said under both Speaker Boehner and then chairman of Appropriations Committee Hal Rogers is that we've got to stop the bleeding. We've got to…

Thank you. That's the beauty of the people's House. I think what you're doing, you hold this weekly town hall forum, as we call it, to talk to the American people about what really is happening here in the people's House, in the Congress…

Thank you, Congresswoman Christensen. I'm here today because I look at the fight and the struggle of the workers in Wisconsin, the public sector workers, as connected, the dots connected to the struggles of workers across this country. For…

If the gentlewoman would yield, I think that we have to be really clear here that this is not a valid substantive debate. I think that we tend to want to address substantive arguments to refute the misinformation that you describe. This is…

I thank my good friend from Missouri. When we talk about feared and loved, I'm not sure where we fit in, but I do think it's important----

I think it became very clear very quickly just what is at stake here. There was a battle line that was drawn. In fact, as we were debating that bill to cut $100 billion and, as I said, with a $1.5 trillion deficit this year, $100 billion…