Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1610) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks launching against the United States on September 11, 2001. The Clerk…

Madam Speaker, according to independent economists, the action of this Congress pulled the economy back from the brink of falling into another Great Depression. I hope my colleagues have had a chance to review the recently released study…

Madam Speaker, as somebody who spent 14 years in local government before coming here to the United States Congress, I know how essential it is that our State and local governments get some relief. The cumulative deficit they are going to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in opposition to this legislation. H.R. 1586, the State bailout bill, extends many of the same provisions included in the original stimulus bill by increasing taxes and using questionable…

I hope if we are not able to get--we have that continued intransigence, that you will continue to look at other initiatives.

It is America versus the rest of the world, and we have got to have the same kind of tool box that other countries offer.

If we can't accomplish that, this place is pretty darn broken.

These would be foreign-based jobs coming back in, or jobs that might locate otherwise abroad targeted directly at IT and at manufacturing.

We fell down.

I want to just reiterate a point that I think both Ms. Lamb-Hale and Mr. Kilmer made, and that is the real dire problem we have got in terms of getting the manufacturing business access to capital, I think we are at a crisis mode right now.

I wholly agree with you--and I think it is more than just in manufacturing; it is across our country--that education needs to be a primary focus for our workforce.

I really think that sector--we may not be able to solve every challenge, but there could be targeted assistance to that group.

The traditional canard... that somehow the reason we cannot compete on a manufacturing basis is because our wages are way too high is not based in fact.

I share his concern about currency manipulation by China, and I think it is an issue that we do--it is our responsibility to take on.

Nobody is better about that than Sherrod Brown.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 8 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, I rise today, as this Chamber debates the nomination of Elena Kagan--someone I am looking forward to supporting when we vote--to raise another issue of ensuring justice in our country, an issue the Presiding Officer, I know…

Getting those resources back invested in our economy, would be a great value.