Thank you, Representative Garamendi. I would just close with this and thank my colleagues for joining me. The change is working. The contrast is stark. The choice is clear. And so I appreciate my colleagues sharing some very strong…

On rollcall No. 296, I was unavoidably detained and missed the vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

We are going to use the time made available to us in the majority to speak this evening about contracts and about choices--about the change in the direction that this Nation is pursuing. It is important for us, I believe, Madam Speaker, to…

The most recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the economy has taken another 290,000 steps in the right direction. Two hundred ninety thousand, that's how many jobs the economy added in the month of April. This…

I thank the gentleman from Indiana for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of my resolution, H. Con. Res. 137, which expresses the sense of Congress that housing is a key component of combating the war against HIV and AIDS. I…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, H.R. 5330 extends by 10 years the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Extension Act of 2004, an important tool in combating illegal cartel behavior. Set to expire next…

On rollcall No. 284 I was detained at a luncheon honoring the President of Mexico, since I am Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and was unable to get back to the vote on time. Had I been…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Rules and Administration will meet on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, at 10 a.m. to hear testimony on the nomination of William J. Boarman, of Maryland, to be the Public Printer. For further…

We all hope for a peace agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians. Such an agreement, providing for adequate security safeguards for Israel, would benefit the citizens of Israel and would benefit the Palestinians. It would…

The Joint Economic Committee released a report this week that looks at how tighter credit standards have hit small businesses especially hard. That means that now, even as big and mid-sized businesses have begun adding jobs once again…

Thank you, Representative Dahlkemper, and thank you, Representative Wasserman Schultz, for bringing us together this evening to share the facts and just the facts, which I think is an important bit of exchange and messaging that needs to…

Absolutely. And thank you again for bringing us together this evening. It's a pleasure to join with our colleague from New Mexico and you from the State of Florida to really share these regional observations because it's happening across…

You know, when I spoke of the small town, the small city that we shared in the good news with yesterday, the city of Waterbury in Albany County in Upstate New York, that is one expression of what could be repeated, is being repeated over…

If the gentlewoman would yield, what the Representative is pointing to in the red is 18 months' worth of activity, $17.5 trillion worth. That is $1 trillion per month.

Mr. Boccieri is right on point. I believe that, to the messaging out there, there could be those critics that want to resort to phantom statistics. But when you look at what is happening out there, there is no denying that these bits of…

I do. Representative Wasserman Schultz, you talked about the comeback issue. One can't help but wonder what would have happened if these economic policies were continued to rule the outcome. If they had continued to rule the outcome, we…

And obviously the decline did not happen overnight. We saw that there were months upon months upon years of activity that really did not respond favorably to the needs of America's consumers, America's business community, in particular her…