I now yield 2 minutes to the Chair of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, a leader on so many issues who has been involved with Haiti since I have known her, and that has been since the 1970s, who has…

Before I close, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to my friend from New Jersey, Chair of the African Global Health Subcommittee, Chairman Payne.

I would like to thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding and also for her strong support and her assistance with this resolution. Let me now yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from New York, a member of the Committee on Small…

I would like to yield 1 minute now to our majority leader, Representative Hoyer from the great State of Maryland.

Let me thank all of the Members today for coming down to the floor in support of this resolution but, more importantly, in support of the people of Haiti. I end by calling on all my colleagues to join me in supporting this measure to…

Before recognizing the next speaker, I yield to my friend, the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), for the purpose of making a unanimous consent request. (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to revise and extend her…

I would like to now yield 1 minute to our great Speaker from the State of California, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. {time} 1530

I would like to thank my good friend, the chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus and a friend of Haiti's who has been working on behalf of Haiti for many years, Barbara Lee. I rise to support this resolution, which expresses the…

I join my colleague, the distinguished chairman of the Intelligence Committee, in honoring the seven American intelligence professionals who lost their lives at Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30, and their six colleagues who…

But even though the scenes are familiar and unsettling, we cannot turn away and we must not shirk our obligation to aid our neighbor in her hour of need. I urge the President to continue to press for faster deployment of aid and…

At the outset, I want to thank and congratulate the Homeland Security Committee and Chairman Thompson. The committee has taken an important step forward towards preventing nuclear terrorism by persevering with this legislation, and I…

I join my colleague from California (Ms. Lee) in expressing my profound sorrow at the tragedy that has been visited upon the people of Haiti. Even now, a week after the earthquake that shattered Port-au-Prince and much of the surrounding…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for giving us the privilege to come to the floor to honor the lives, the leadership, the service and sacrifice of the seven CIA officers killed, and those who were wounded in Afghanistan on…

I thank the gentlewoman, Congresswoman Lee, for her leadership in bringing this legislation to the floor as Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and as a leader on this issue as well. To Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, ranking member on the…

I thank the gentleman, the distinguished leader, for yielding, and express to him on behalf of all Members of the House of Representatives, indeed, the Congress, the condolences that we all feel. We extend them to you on Paula's passing…

Earlier today I was unavoidably detained and missed rollcall No. 4. If present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

I was absolutely devastated to learn of the earthquake that struck Haiti late yesterday afternoon. I fear that an earthquake of this magnitude, with its subsequent aftershocks, has dealt a serious blow to the livelihoods and lives of many…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Christensen. Now I would like to yield to the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus' International Affairs Task Force, Congressman Don Payne, who also chairs the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee of…