Reclaiming my time, I can't name a single one. I haven't looked over the list of the Democrats but that would be quite unusual. It would be unusual to see Democrats in there negotiating a vote of ``no'' on the bill. I'd be very surprised…

Reclaiming my time, I will bring this back to that, that time they had 51 votes counted in the Senate on the health care bill. I went back to the Midwest, and I usually fly into Omaha. Well, Omaha, of course, is a central metropolitan area…

Reclaiming my time, of course that is what it takes to get the votes for a bad deal. That is what the American people know, that's what the Tea Party patriots know. I would go further. When you start out and you have a good idea. Let's say…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the privilege to address you here on the floor, and I appreciate the dialogue that came from my colleagues the previous hour discussing this health care issue that has so consumed this Nation. And we are here now…

Well, it's truly not bipartisanship; it's only the show of bipartisanship designed for two things: so they can say, Well, we've negotiated with Republicans on C-SPAN. We didn't shut them out. That's really it. The gentleman from Georgia.

You know, I think they have been sitting up behind closed doors cooking up this reconciliation/nuclear option. They've been doing this for over a month. Senator Harkin announced, after Scott Brown won the election in Massachusetts--again…

To the gentleman, in fact, I can say that with a factual knowledge, and I don't have to ask any of the 435 Members, did you read this bill, because I was here on the floor that night when we suspended the debate for 35 minutes to resolve…

In reclaiming my time, in addition to this reconciliation package is the, figuratively, gun to the head of Republicans. They've been cleaning their gun all weekend and spinning the cylinder. They'll put it to our heads tomorrow, and…

In reclaiming my time from the gentleman from Missouri, it causes me to think about what I have talked about for some time here on the floor, and I'll see if I have the notes on this. I can also speak from memory, however. I have long…

Another thing that happens around this town is the hole in the wall gang, the Rules Committee, sits up here on the third floor in a place where you very seldom see any press from the room. And only on one occasion have I seen a television…

Because they got a list from the Speaker as to what amendments to approve and which ones not to approve. And on this health care bill, this monstrosity here, I was before the Rules Committee at 1:30 in the morning, I offered 13 separate…

Not only would I support that, but I would go further, and I would have a lot more bills come down here under an open rule. I would sign the pledge and the oath that every appropriations bill would be open rule.

Well, I hope, as I reclaim, that what we see tomorrow is more than a dog and pony show. I hope it's not just a show that's designed to resolve the two things that seem to be giving Democrats and the President heartburn, which are the very…

Well, reclaiming my time, I would label the gentleman from Georgia as not necessarily right or left or center, but perhaps an optimist on the grounds that the Speaker has been around here for a long time, and she surely would have seen…

Let me suggest to the gentleman from Georgia that the problem is, no, Republicans can't stop anything that Democrats decide they want to get together and vote for because of the margin of 40 votes to burn here in the House, 19 in the…

Chairman Harkin has been an outstanding champion for facilities funds for community colleges.

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I thank the gentleman, and I'd just make this point. When I read the material on this coming back up again, and I so appreciate Mr. Abercrombie's work, and I know his heart and his head are in this. This is in a verbatim email that I wrote…