Mr. President, I want to express my concern about the nomination of Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and explain why I will vote against him when the Senate has the opportunity this week. I know many of my colleagues…

Mr. President, I cannot support this pay-go amendment because it would continue the double-standard that exists between taxes and spending. Under current law, more than a dozen mandatory programs will expire over the next 10 years…

I think my judgment is you have a ways to go.

I hope I am here next year to continue this discussion.

Your predecessor, Mr. John Hamre, assured me that he would fix that problem after he was confirmed as Deputy Secretary, but he didn't keep his word.

Obviously, a lot of us agree with the goals that the President articulated.

I want to go to interest rates and the publicly held debt.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) for leading on this Special Order tonight and for leading on fiscal responsibility here in the United States Congress. This balanced budget amendment is something that I am proud to be an…

Reclaiming my time, listening to the gentleman from Texas recount the circumstances by which the Declaration of Independence was written, and I recall reading through a fair amount of that history and watching a movie or two, some of the…

Reclaiming my time, I thank my friend from Texas for being up late at night and coming down here. When you have a friend that will stand with you like Judge Gohmert, in the end we can, I think, together, do some good things for the…

Madam Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 15 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 10 a.m. ____________________

I appreciate the honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House. I appreciate the previous hour, the gentleman from Virginia leading it, talking about the responsibility that we all have to provide a balanced budget…

Reclaiming my time, I thank the judge from Texas. On the transparency side of this discussion, too, to broaden that out, Madam Speaker, when I address transparency, I am speaking of two things. One is transparency in the negotiations, so…

We have built our consumption based upon basically debt or bubble assets, that type of thing, rather than just earnings.

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee. And I just relate a very quick story that was presented to us by Dr. David Janda, who has written a book. He is out of Michigan. He has practiced in Canada. When he first went up there to work in the…

thank you

And reclaiming before I yield, I want to pose a question here for consideration. Canadian health care plan, the average length of time to wait for a knee replacement is 340 days, a hip replacement 196 days. Where I come from, we don't…

Reclaiming my time, I would propose that it actually goes another step yet, and that is, we talked about the government takeover of the private sector, and we talked about between 30 percent and 33 percent of the private-sector profits…