We're going to win this thing with all of our passion and strength and do everything we can to get this campaign on the right track to go across the nation and to pick up other states and to get the balance I need, the votes I need to…

If you're going to get in a campaign like this, you've got to have broad shoulders. And if you can't take on the negative that's part of a primary, you're sure as heck not going to be ready for what's going to come from Barack Obama. If…

We're going to get in a campaign like this, you've got to have broad shoulders, and if you can't take on the negative that's part of a primary, you're sure as heck not going to be ready for what's going to come from Barack Obama. If you…

You have got to have someone who can stand up to President Obama and can actually beat him.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 3659. This bill was taken out of the 360-page tax extenders bill, and essentially the authors of this bill have brought it up so that they could just have…

Before I close, I would just like to mention one personal experience that I had just this last week. After having suffered an aneurysm, one of my sisters was on her way back to the hospital this morning. Because I didn't have access to a…

Government doesn't create jobs, the private sector does.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 493 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 493 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution. The SPEAKER. The question is on ordering the previous question. The question was taken; and the Speaker announced that the ayes appeared…

Mr. Speaker, the issues and accusations that were brought up by the gentleman from Florida will be something that we will address in the course of this debate, but I wish to do this in somewhat of a regular order. There are other issues…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. This bill has gone through regular order as no other bill has. It went through its committee in regular order and was passed out in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, 60-1. It came on the…

Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New Jersey is right, yesterday the House did act in a bipartisan way. Now it's up to the Senate to act--amend, change, anything except just sitting there and not taking action. I am pleased to yield 1 minute…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. In the year we have been here discussing these things, we have talked a lot about budget problems that we have in this country. It is my contention that our budget is not just that we…

Mr. Speaker, this resolution provides a standard conference report rule and other end-of-the-year housekeeping provisions. H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, has been considered in committee. It was debated on the…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock). Mr. McCLINTOCK. I thank the gentleman for generously yielding to me to offer a dissenting view of section 1021 of the underlying conference…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to reserve the remainder of our time but to permit the distinguished Senator from Colorado to utilize his 5 minutes at this time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so…

Madam President, in a short while, we will vote on two balanced budget amendments to the Constitution, at least one of which will be a true balanced budget amendment. One of those amendments, S.J. Res. 10, the amendment supported by every…

Madam President, this is the last chance to vote for a constitutional amendment that will truly do something, that will tie the hands of Congress so they have to live within fiscal constraints. We are taxing and spending this country into…