I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Nominations

This morning, I rise with a heavy heart, but on behalf of a grateful Nation, to honor a soldier born and raised in southwestern Pennsylvania, who gave his life on September 14 in service to our country. This week, he returned to his home…

Madam President, I rise tonight to speak about one subject, but a very important subject for our country and for our system of justice, and that is the confirmation of Federal district court judges. I will focus tonight on one Federal…

This week another American energy-producing company announced plant closures and worker layoffs, citing the Obama administration's authoritarian regulatory regime in part as a rationale for its decision. Yesterday Alpha Natural Resources…

I rise this morning to honor the life and memory of Pennsylvania Police Officer Bradley Fox. Brad Fox was a 5-year veteran of the Plymouth Township Police Department in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Having grown up in my home of Bucks…

I want to share an experience I had touring the same areas that Lou did. And it was a family of six; they weren't able to be in their house. It was a blue collar family. It was half a double. They wouldn't even be able to sit on their…

I urge support for this commonsense, bipartisan bill, H.R. 6118, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the gentlelady from West Virginia. Thank you also for your tireless advocacy for coal as we are here fighting the war on coal. It's interesting. I remember when I was attending college at Wheeling Jesuit University. Oftentimes, for…

I'll add a story here. I remember back in the 1970s, in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, where a dam broke and wiped out the town. I remember going there to work with the Red Cross. In the late evening at Van High School, I was talking to a…

In conclusion, I want to commend the advocacy of Mr. Lance and Ms. Eshoo, the leadership, Mr. Upton, the ranking member of the full committee and the subcommittee, and thank the staffs of both the subcommittee and the full committee for…

Mr. President, in honor of Arnold Palmer, and the presentation of his Gold Medal to him on September 12, 2012, in the U.S. Capitol, for a lifetime of service to his Nation and contributions in the game of golf which has earned him the…

At this time I would like to yield 3 minutes to the chair of the full committee, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton).

I would like to yield at this time 5 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kinzinger).

At this time I would like to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey, (Mr. Lance), a member of the Health Subcommittee.

As a veteran I appreciate the efforts of Mr. Kinzinger and Mrs. Capps and others in this commonsense and very bipartisan bill to support our veterans and provide for this need in the emergency medical technician area. I urge support for…

At this time I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Grimm).

White House adviser Larry Summers said it best. When one of Solyndra's own investors was astonished to learn his startup firm qualified for this massive DOE earmark, Summers replied the government is a ``crappy venture capitalist.'' Nearly…

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been released from prison in Iran. After 3 years of suffering in prison, with the death penalty hanging over his head on false charges, Pastor Youcef is now home with his family. This weekend he was suddenly…