Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of House Resolution 1645, expressing support for designation of the week beginning on November 8, 2010, as National School Psychology Week. National School…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to speak on an issue that is of great importance to my home State of Louisiana: Federal disaster assistance. As you know, along the gulf coast, we keep an eye trained on the Gulf of Mexico during…

I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say that I am glad we can work together on this bipartisan bill. It is an important step in improving access to clinical trials. I thank my colleague from Louisiana for sharing his…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Fleming), a physician who knows a little bit about clinical trials.

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I have two special investments in this bill, Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act. One is being a physician, a family physician for 34 years. The other is that…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns), one of the coauthors of the House bill. (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Madam Speaker, I am now pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Petri).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act before us today. Mr. Speaker, I was an original cosponsor of the House version of this bill introduced in June 2009…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, I mentioned that we are for some of this tax relief in this bill. But if you talk to small business owners across this great country of ours, you talk to workers, you talk to families…

I rise in opposition to H.R. 5297. Madam Speaker, we have heard a lot today about the centerpiece of this bill--the highly controversial $30 billion small business lending fund, a provision sometimes referred to as TARP III. That provision…

Madam Speaker, I mentioned earlier the small business provisions that we do agree upon, but we think that these are going to be outweighed by the onerous 1099 provision that is in the health law, and the impact on businesses is going to be…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, this is sort of an historic moment. If you can get three doctors to agree on the same thing on the floor of the House of Representatives, you've got a pretty…

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 6190. This is a straightforward bill to extend for 3 months, through December 31, the existing FAA authorization law, the excise taxes that support the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and the trust…

Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 540 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

I am encouraged to hear that the V-Vehicle Company... is making significant progress with DOE on their second application.

Mr. President, I have come to the floor to speak, as many of my colleagues have today, on the DISCLOSE Act, which is being sponsored by Senator Schumer, primarily, and other Members of the Senate, to try to fix and make significant…