Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to be recognized by you to address the House of Representatives in this most deliberative body that we are. I often come here; and in the 30 or so minutes that I spend waiting and anticipating my opportunity to…

Madam Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 4 o'clock and 25 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, May 14, 2010, at 11:30 a.m…

Madam President, I thank Senator Wyden for his leadership and for working together with me and other Senators over a long period of time. I think he referred to maybe 10 years that we have been struggling to get to what we are finally…

Mr. President, in 1972, the Iowa Legislature created the Office of Citizens' Aide to address instances of dissatisfaction with government agencies In 1978, Bill Angrick became the State ombudsman at age 32, according to the Des Moines…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 17 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, May 13, 2010, at 10 a.m. ____________________

We have seen history being made. And those things are what one would consider to be a done deal. And then we are on the cusp of the financial regulations, which is another 15 percent of the economy some say. And then add to that another 8…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives and the privilege to also have the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Akin) yield to me as he delivers the leadership hour…

It's based upon the private sector activity as analyzed by Dr. Boyle of Arizona State University, who's written the analysis and the article on it, Mr. Akin.

Well, I thank the gentleman from Missouri for heading up this Special Order hour and for talking so much common sense into the Record himself. And as we watched, there are two different paths one can follow. The road that's being traveled…

We are at least at 51 percent that has been nationalized, and that's the banks, the insurance, Fannie and Freddie, the car companies, and then Obamacare. That's 51 percent.

Let me add up the percentages of the formerly private sector from a year and a half ago, and it comes to 74 percent of the private sector would be either nationalized today or nationalized with the two acts that are pending that they're…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o'clock and 17 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, May, 7, 2010, at 10 a.m. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the privilege to be recognized here on the floor of the House, and I appreciate my colleague from Texas holding the ground until I come here to hold a little ground with him. I always stand on the same ground as…

Madam President, you have heard me say many times to my colleagues that the public's business ought to be public. I don't know why that does not apply to the Federal Reserve, at least on its regulatory activities when it gives out money…

I thank my friend from Connecticut. Every time I see my good friend here, I think of all the work that he did in getting our health care bill through, and now this. Talk about going out on a high note. I am sorry, as he knows, that he is…

We do not want to just limit this to smoking-gun cases. We want this more broadly applied.

As a citizen, I believe this body--Congress--has a long history of working together, on a bi-partisan basis, to create and maintain a level playing field in the workplace.

I am not suggesting and do not mean to imply that a plaintiff in a discrimination case needs some kind of smoking gun in order to prevail.