Madam Speaker, it is with a heavy heart today that I join my colleagues in paying respects to the victims of the senseless tragedy that took place last weekend in Arizona. I extend my prayers to the families of those who lost their lives…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, the outpouring of support from every corner of western New York for the victims of the attack in Tucson has been overwhelming and inspiring. It is on behalf of western New York that I…

I thank my friend from California. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 32. Last week, in an act of cowardly violence, our friend and colleague, Gabby Giffords, was gunned down at a public event intended to give her…

Section 2: ``This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within 7 years from the date of its submission to the States…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. And it occurred to me as we heard this discussion--and thank you to Mr. Courtney for raising these issues with us, Mr. Speaker. Because it occurred to me that while we should be spending our time focused…

Section 2: ``The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall began at noon on the third day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.'' Section 3: ``If, at the time fixed for the…

I thank the gentleman. I am so pleased to be here again. I have been here in the House on this floor for the last hour and a half because I feel passionately, as we all do, about health care. There is not one among us, either personally…

In fact, it's exactly the opposite of the government being the servant. It's the government being the oppressor. And as I mentioned, 12,000 jobs have already been lost in south Louisiana alone. And these aren't my numbers; this is the…

``Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the…

I'm so pleased to join you today and to talk about health care. And I feel very personally about health care, as somebody who went for a long time without any health care coverage and worried like Americans do all across this country. They…

Thank you for yielding, Mr. Yarmuth. You know, as I listened to this discussion, I thought, I wonder what taxpayers are thinking about with this discussion. I wonder about those taxpayers who go to work every day but who, through no fault…

I want to thank my friend from up the Mississippi River in Missouri, Madam Speaker, for yielding to me and talking about this important issue, because there seems to be a lot of energy as we are talking about energy in this House. I think…

``But the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper, and the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.''

You can amend the constitution out of the founding fathers, presumed in their wisdom I think has two-thirds of the Congress and three-quarters of the state legislature.

They might not have been the only ones but they got a good bit of it.

We need tens of millions of dollars at least on research, maybe hundreds of millions, so this thing is a long way from over.

It is very doubtful. One of the things that the history of the constitution has actually filed an Article of Confederation. It came into being to establish a strong federal government.

We need really good regulation down here and we need very, very aggressive plaintiff's law that hold everybody's feet to the fire.