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Mr. Speaker, during the Bush administration, the unemployment rate nearly doubled. We hemorrhaged millions of jobs, including 743,000 jobs that we lost in January 2009 when President Obama was sworn in. They made the mess, but we have to…
Mr. President, I wish today to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I would like to take this opportunity not only to talk about the man but also the movement. During a time of segregation, violence, unnecessary bloodshed, and…
I thank my friend for yielding. There are times in life when you get a call and you are shocked, you are saddened, you are stunned. That was such a call for, I am sure, all of us when we learned that Paula Nowakowski had passed away…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that if a veto message on House Joint Resolution 64 is laid before the House on this legislative day, then after the message is read and the objections of the President are spread at large upon the…
Mr. Speaker, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 998 Resolved, That a committee of two Members be appointed by the Speaker on the part of…
Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to salute a Washington correspondent, Dave McConnell, who is a good friend of mine and who this month is marking his 45th anniversary with WTOP radio. Since 1965, Dave has been a Washington radio institution…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the order of the House of January 6, 2009, providing for morning-hour debate be extended for the remainder of the 111th Congress, except that House Resolution 1000 shall supplant House Resolution…
Mr. Speaker, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 999 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House inform the Senate that a quorum of the House is…
Mr. Speaker, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 1000 Resolved, That unless otherwise ordered, before Monday, May 17, 2010, the hour of…
Maybe we need tort reform in our own Government so that--maybe that's where we ought to have tort reform.
But you--this is beyond note taking. This is what we're looking at here.
I haven't seen a frozen asset. I haven't even seen an ice cube asset.
I don't want their families to end up in poverty. I don't want their families ending up on food stamps.
Senator Biden, my colleague, and I are $1.5 billion short every year for our veterans.
Would this be retroactive to September 11?
Mahmoud Abbas has got to not only dismantle the security forces, but he's got to dismantle a mindset