Too often, our regulatory system has become an impediment to innovation.

the President has identified a few areas that he has called for an 'all-hands-on-deck' approach to catalyze breakthroughs.

Mr. Chair, on rollcall Nos. 371, 372, and 373, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended. The amendment was…

I'm going to take my inspiration from Senator Lautenberg, here.

I thank my colleague from Ohio for his leadership and my friend from Illinois for her kind words. The Small Business Lending Fund Act will expand opportunities for small businesses to access critically needed capital today. Our amendment…

Mr. Speaker, as I travel around America's First District, I hear unanimously from folks out there, and they ask this question: Rob, what's happening in Washington about our budget? Why do we continue to deficit spend? We are on an…

Again, I agree with my friend from Oregon completely, and as he points out, this didn't happen by an act of God. This happened because of lax or no regulation, regulation we knew was necessary and we took a chance. We took a chance. And we…

I thank you for your courtesy and graciousness, but I would say that clearly my colleague from Oregon is a model for all of us, especially those of us new here to the Congress, for his environmental leadership and for his legislative…

I thank you so much. I think our colleague from Oregon has done such an incredible job in this body on so many environmental fronts, not least of which, of course, the livable community initiative that he made reference to. Thank you so…

I thank our friend from New Jersey and thank him for his leadership as well. Let me close by pointing out that there is a danger to bumper-sticker public policy making. Those who lived by ``drill, baby, drill'' now have to examine not only…

Yes, we need to clean up the mess we inherited from previous Congresses and, frankly, from the previous administration. Today, for example, the House passed S. 3473, which increases advanced cleanup funding paid for by BP so that the Coast…

I, again, am in complete concurrence. This didn't happen somehow by happenstance. This happened by virtue of a conscious decision, by Congress' control, by our friends on the other side, and by the Bush administration to find all kinds of…

I thank my colleague from Colorado. I yield again to our friend from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).

I thank my colleague, and I think his point is a very cogent one, and it's even worse than we're discussing because not only did we consciously decide during the Bush administration and by previous Congresses, frankly controlled by our…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 46 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, June 14, 2010, at 12:30 p.m., for morning-hour debate…

Mr. Speaker, in the United States right now we are experiencing an environmental catastrophe. We are experiencing with the BP oil rig the largest single oil spill in American history. It's a little hard to contemplate just how big this oil…

I thank my colleague from New Jersey. Again, I thank him so much for his participation tonight and for his leadership, especially in leading us in a legislative remedy. I want to end with this: on June 10, 2008, one of our colleagues…

Mr. President, I rise today in somewhat regrettable opposition to the resolution offered by the Senior Senator from Alaska. I do not believe this is about big oil. This is not about oilspills. It is not about people who like dirty air. It…