Madam President, there is finally some sunshine on the Capitol dome today, and it is a welcome change from all the snow we have had this winter, so it is appropriate that this is Sunshine Week. But that is not a reference to the weather…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 20 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Sunshine Week

Mr. President, one of the provisions the Democratic leadership decided to put in this HIRE bill is the expansion of Build America Bonds. Build America Bonds is a very rich spending program; however, it is disguised as a tax cut. One…

Bloomberg News reported that large Wall Street investment banks were charging 37 percent higher underwriting fees on Build America Bond deals than on other tax-exempt bond deals. Therefore, American taxpayers appear to be funding huge…

It is my privilege and I'm honored to be recognized to speak here on the floor and to address you tonight. Having listened to my friend and colleague from Ohio talk about the high moral calling that there is for them to pass socialized…

I thank the gentleman from Texas from picking up there from where I was forced to leave off. To take this up then, Madam Speaker, the situation of asking Janet Murguia, the president of La Raza, to testify as to why we needed to increase…

Madam Speaker, we find ourselves in a unique circumstance in this Congress after over two centuries. This is likely the very first time that something is positioned to happen that the Founding Fathers never envisioned: That there would be…

Just as I look at the statistics here, and I see the 91 percent of survival rate of prostate cancer in America, that means out of 10 patients, nine will live. I look at the ratio in the United Kingdom, 50 percent. That means out of two…

Reclaiming my time, and I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, as I listened to the gentleman from Ohio talk and to spread this philosophy that somehow, first, there are principles that they've been trying to drag back and establish rights…

Reclaiming my time, and so we have seen what the data is on survival rates for cancer in the United States versus Canada and Great Britain and one other country. There is another point that has been made, I say it has been made…

Mr. President, first, this program has never been authorized. It was only put into an appropriations bill in 2003. It was extended once. We had the Department of Education, not this one, the previous one, and this one, do studies of…

We cannot abide by any educational system that says there are some kids that can be written off.

For its flaws, No Child Left Behind has done an excellent job of shining a light on the achievement gaps that still exist.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 25 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 10 a.m. ____________________

In that case, I take the gentleman's point and I think it has been driven home effectively by this chart and the language that we know. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your indulgence. And if I called you Madam Speaker, I apologize. I didn't…

I thank the Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from California.

Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his inquiry.

Would the gentleman yield? I thank the gentleman from Texas. This argument about the commerce clause and the Federal Government being able to regulate interstate commerce, I take this to the other side of the scenario that Mr. Lungren has…