Mr. President, I would like to clarify, for the record, that Senator Dianne Feinstein was mistakenly added and then withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 28 as a result of a clerical error. Let the record reflect that any notations regarding…

Mr. President, I very much thank my colleague from Washington, who has been such a leader on this issue and on so many issues involving our economy, jobs, and the middle class. I thank her for her leadership on this issue as on so many…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Minnesota for her leadership, for her guidance, for her distinguished career, and for her service on the Judiciary Committee. It is so meaningful to all of us to have her ability to review these…

I thank the chairman for yielding to me, and I rise in strong support of H.R. 5851. A couple of speakers before me, the gentleman from Georgia on the other side of the aisle kept repeating the mantra of ``never let a crisis go to waste,''…

I thank the gentleman. I stand here this evening in strong support of H.R. 847. I want to commend my colleagues, Representatives Maloney, Nadler, Crowley and the entire delegation from New York in a bipartisan way for working on this bill…

I thank my friend from New Jersey for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, I was never more proud to be a New Yorker. Many of my constituents rushed in to help, and within days of the attack over 40,000 responders from…

So it wouldn't seem, to me at least--and I am wondering about your opinion--to be an unfair conclusion that what is going on is not a dispute about which amendments or how many amendments, even the subjects of the amendments, but that they…

They were not an attempt to improve, modify or help small business but were to simply get us off the subject?

Isn't it true that yesterday or a day or so ago, when we did the Citizens United bill, the minority leader was complaining that the leadership was getting off the subject of small business to go to some other subject? It would seem now, at…

Is it not true as well that as chair of the committee, you have offered them every opportunity and all kinds of amendments and all kinds of compromises in the committee before we got to the floor and now on the floor?

Is it not true that many of the amendments the other side wanted to offer had nothing to do with small business whatsoever?

I would like to ask the chair of the Small Business Committee, who has done such an outstanding job here, is it not true that we have heard many different numbers and types of amendments that should be offered?

Over 13,000 responders are sick and receiving treatment today. Nearly 53,000 are enrolled in medical monitoring; 71,000 are enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry. We have created Centers of Excellence across the country as…

I thank my from friend from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise as an original co-sponsor and in support of H.R. 847. I have seen too many police officers, firefighters, and construction workers who responded to 9/11 who have…

More than 70,000 Americans from every State descended upon Ground Zero to recover and rebuild after 9/11. They ran into burning buildings, they rescued trapped workers, they sorted through destruction. And just as we provide medical care…

I now have the distinct privilege of yielding 1 minute to the distinguished Speaker of the House.

This evening I rise not only as a Member of Congress, not only as a native New Yorker, and not only as the son of a New York City police officer. Today, I also rise as the cousin of Battalion Chief John Moran and in strong support of the…

Who has the right to close? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York.