I offer an amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 253, line 12, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $510,000,000)''. Page 253, line 12, after the…

We used to argue at one time on this floor whether or not to help communities to support the police department. We argued here on this floor as to whether this was a Federal issue, whether the Federal Government had any responsibility in…

As I listen to the debate in this House, we need to put politics aside and pursue policies that move America forward. I encourage my Republican colleagues to focus on legislation that creates jobs, economic recovery, and debt reduction…

This resolution being offered by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is a simple waste of time, and it doesn't address job creation, which must be the number one priority of this Congress. Today, we are literally coming to the…

Mr. President, I hear the requests of people on the other side of the political aisle to repeal a health reform bill that has been put in place, received majority support in the House and in the Senate when developed. Now what we are…

As a country, how could we repeal this law and then look our children and grandchildren in the eye? We should be focused on getting this critical jobs bill signed into law, not refighting last year's partisan battles. Make no mistake…

Madam President, people across this country are feeling pressures from so many points of view--job loss, threatened losses in the future as pressure exists on businesses, particularly small businesses across our country. They look to us in…

I don't like to reference the Republican chairman of the Rules Committee, Mr. Dreier, because he did leave the floor. But he made a couple of statements that I have to comment on. First of all, he said that this Republican initiative is…

I come to the floor today as someone willing to work towards reforms that will create jobs, strengthen our middle class, and pay down our debt. I am in favor of comprehensive tax reform with lower rates. I'm in favor of removing…

Thank you, Mr. McGovern. Before us is yet another piece of legislation being used as a political gimmick instead of an honest conversation to seek out compromise with the purpose of aiding the economy. As a new member of the Budget…

I'm really excited about the President's speech tomorrow because I know he's going to stress the whole idea of investment and innovation. He talks about the fact that right now many of the corporations in this country are actually sitting…

Thank you. First of all, I wanted to thank my colleague from California for coming down here tonight and many nights and talking about the Make it in America agenda and why manufacturing matters. And the fact of the matter is that…

I'm glad you talked about my district. I want to talk about my district, and I also want to talk about Mr. Tonko and his district and what the President did last weekend because, as you know, it was a GE plant that he visited in…

Well, I wanted to just mention briefly, because Mr. Tonko has been talking about GE and the president of GE who is now the head of this new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, I just thought it was interesting. In last Friday's Washington…

I am amazed that my colleague from California brings up the health reform. We were using CBO numbers, actual numbers that were provided by the CBO to say that we have a $230 billion reduction in the deficit in the first 10 years and a…

I am just amazed. I listened to the gentleman from Georgia who just spoke, and he said that in his district all of the focus is on health care and health care repeal. Well, I don't know, when I go home all I hear in my district is jobs and…

Yesterday was an unfortunate day in this Chamber. The majority party voted to bring our Nation back to a system where insurance companies' needs are placed before those of middle class Americans. The truth is that millions of Americans are…

Mr. Pearce, thank you. One of the things that we have in Congress is a large number of medical doctors, OB-GYNs and others who are overwhelmingly pro-life. Dr. Roe from Tennessee is among us.