Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 411, noes 4, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 419]…

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 410, noes 0, not voting 22, as follows: [Roll No. 420]…

Mr. President, today marks the 1-year anniversary of the implementation of the post-9/11 GI bill, landmark legislation I was privileged to introduce on my first day in office. The idea was to provide those who have served since 9/11 with…

Mr. President, I have not yet had the opportunity on the floor to express my regret for the passing of Senator Robert Byrd and my incredible respect for the service he gave our country. I was only able to serve with Senator Byrd at the…

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose the rule on this legislation that's coming forward. But before we get to the vote on the rule, we're going to have a vote on ordering the previous question, and I urge my colleagues to vote…

I am supportive of what Senator Whitehouse and Senator Menendez are trying to do in this overall green housing initiative.

I am very optimistic and hopeful about the Home Star Initiative.

President Obama has spoken on that, and we also are trying to see if we can get that included in whether a larger energy bill or perhaps even in a small business or some of the other legislation that is moving forward.

What seems to be that we have not cracked the code on yet is if we are going to achieve the savings.

And again, my time is up, but I would just think that we should be able to get data that shows, here is what a home's energy costs would be without energy efficiency, whether in the construction or in the retrofit, and there ought to be an…

Madam Speaker, just months ago, the President signed the historic health care reform law, and thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act, Americans are already seeing benefits from the reform. First, our seniors on Medicare part D have begun…

Madam Speaker, it would be unconscionable for this Congress to fail to enact legislative protections for the Nation's consumers after the worst economic collapse in 80 years. We must pass Wall Street reform when it comes before the House…

Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 419, noes 0, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 384]…

I believe that the goals of universal service should extend to broadband deployment to support buildout plans in rural American and in underserved areas.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we heard Washington won't have a budget blueprint this year. For the first time in modern history, Congress will not perform one of its primary responsibilities. I believe it is simply not acceptable to pass the…

the rate of change that we'd seen across the 16 metrics that Dr. Atkinson will describe later.

I think it is a very big issue, this question of early-stage capital formation.

It would help, since a third of that was tax cuts, and nobody in Virginia knew we gave them a tax cut, either.