I thank my friend from Texas. I am standing here listening, thinking about what it means to be in a country that in the history of the world there has been no country that has more profound respect for the rule of law. And the thought that…

Reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman from Texas. I wanted to go back through a couple of points the gentleman has made with regard to the Arizona law. One of them would be, my recollection is that ``lawful contact'' was amended to say…

Let me suggest that ``lawful contact'' would mean, among it, ``lawful contact'' would be ``stop, detention, or arrest,'' so specific within those individual subcategories of lawful contact. So I think I make a distinction without a…

Didn't they strike ``lawful contact'' and just put in ``stop, detention, or arrest?''

That's why I think it's important we do everything in our power to ensure that every American has access to a safe and secure pension.

Chairman Harkin, Ranking Member Enzi and other distinguished members of the committee

Well, in reclaiming my time then, I have to pose the question: If you're in business, if you're an investment banker, for example, if you have a large credit operation going on and if you've watched the Barney Frank bill and the Chris Dodd…

Reclaiming my time, in scouring the financial reform package and the Barney Frank bill or the Chris Dodd bill and setting up the word search and chasing it through there, Mr. Speaker, I don't find anything in either one of those bills that…

Would we choose some mainline IV drug users off the streets to go in and take IVs in hospitals because they happen to have had the kind of experience that they're good at even though it's illegal? If somebody were proficient in how he…

Mr. Speaker, I sat here and listened to perhaps as many as 10 Democrats do their 1-minute. And at least three of them said something that astonishes me. They said we have already created more new jobs than were created in all 8 years of…

Mr. Speaker, as I watch this regulation that's coming through in the financial services component of this, it's a regulation that sets up Tim Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, to decide which businesses are too big to be allowed to…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House. I appreciate the opportunity to listen to the speakers in the previous hour and the opportunity to do a bit of rebuttal even…

Reclaiming and thanking the gentleman from Texas, I'd point out into the Record, Mr. Speaker, that some months ago the Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, came before a couple of committees, Financial Services and Ag. And the question…

Mr. President, today I am joining with the distinguished senior Senator from Utah, Senator Hatch, to introduce the Dietary Supplement Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2010. Forty percent of Americans regularly take…

Just remind me. I'm standing here thinking we're drawing a rational conclusion that the Minerals Management Service would not release the information that showed the results of the testing of the blowout preventer.

If they'd done the testing. There are reports out there that there is testing that had failed some 10 days or so before the well, itself, had failed. Now, I don't know if that's true or not. I don't want to start a rumor.

The gentleman from Texas, we've got an open government. This is the most open, the most honest government in history, and we are drawing conclusions based upon not getting an answer as opposed to the answer that we might get if they would…

But are we drawing a rational conclusion here that we could have a government that we could draw conclusions from based upon their response or lack of response and not the answer to the question? I would yield.