
Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 14 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, February 26, 2010, at 9 a.m. ____________________
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 14 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, February 26, 2010, at 9 a.m. ____________________

When a gentleman states an erroneous fact into the Record, is a Member's alternative then to move to take down the words rather than ask for a yield to correct the record? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair does not respond to hypothetical…

Mr. Speaker, I would have a point of order if we didn't have Members in bed right now, so I will concede this point right now and yield back. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota may proceed.

Is it common and normal for a Member to yield to another Member on a respectful request? The SPEAKER pro tempore. It is entirely at the discretion of the gentleman who controls time whether or not he chooses to yield.

We have an administration that insists on giving Miranda warnings to terrorists caught during wartime.

We have an administration that not only repealed tough and effective interrogation techniques that are lawful.

We have an administration that has announced that it intends to hold an Article III common criminal trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

We have an administration that gave Miranda warnings and a lawyer to a terrorist directly coming to America.

Mr. President, in 1997 then-Senator Biden and I sponsored legislation to create the Drug Free Communities, DFC, grant program. At the time, I believed, as I still do today, that one of the most effective ways the Federal Government can…

In reclaiming my time and in thanking the gentlemen from Georgia and Missouri, in our last minute here, Mr. Speaker, I'd make the point that I'm happy to say ``no'' to bad ideas, N-O to bad ideas. The American people are glad of that. They…

Reclaiming my time, I will make another point of this that I think has been completely understated--if stated at all, Mr. Speaker--here in the House of Representatives or across the dialogue of this land, and that is this: This President…

In reclaiming my time, I have a remark to the gentleman: Free enterprise capitalism is what defeated the Soviet Union and is what ended the Cold War, because our economy could outproduce their economy, and they eventually collapsed. I…

Well, I'll reclaim my time, and yield to the man who does have grits for breakfast, the doctor from Georgia, Mr. Broun.

In briefly reclaiming my time, to the gentleman from Georgia, I'd make the point that, as to what's going on tomorrow that you referred to as a dog-and-pony show, I don't take issue with that statement. I just think that the American…

There are a lot of things that get spun around this thing, as you know in this town. It's been, Republicans are blocking the bill. We have no capability of doing that, obviously, not from a vote-count standpoint, when the Speaker of the…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 45 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, February 25, 2010, at 10 a.m. ____________________

Wouldn't you want to know what their objections are? I would think that would be important. Bart Stupak on the pro-life amendment worked very closely with Smith and Pennsylvania Representative Joe Pitts. They worked very hard to pass, and…

I would guess that was nearly 32 Democrats that voted ``no.'' It would be in that neighborhood somewhere.