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Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I support H.R. 5751, the Lobbying Disclosure Enhancement Act. The purpose of the bill is to provide flexibility to the executive branch for the enforcement of the…
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairman Conyers and Chairman Thompson for their leadership and for bringing H.R. 4748 to the floor. I do live along the Canadian border, and much of my district contains a broad swath of Indian reservation and…
Mr. President, I rise today to join my colleague from Wisconsin, Senator Herb Kohl, in introducing a resolution to designate September 13-19, 2010, as National Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week. Polycystic kidney disease, also known…
Madam President, I thank my dear colleague for his kind remarks. I remember those days we spent on this floor, and the days before that, when we had to convince people throughout the Congress that this was the right thing to do; that civil…
Madam President, I thank the Senator for his kind remarks, but I also recognize his great leadership. This is a complex set of issues. We had complexities among the groups. We had to bring them all together and work with them. We had to…
Mr. President, I rise today to join my colleague from South Carolina, Senator Jim DeMint, in introducing the Freedom for Consumer Choice Act. I am pleased to be an original cosponsor of this legislation, which would require the Federal…
Mr. President, I rise today to express my growing alarm about the excessive amount of government spending that is adding to our national debt at an exponential rate. We simply cannot continue to add these annual trillion dollar-plus…
I have my good friend here--the newest Member from the good State of Georgia, so we've got a good southerner here. We have somebody from the Midwest, and I am actually from the West. With all due respect, I think my part of the Nation is…
Well, we'll all join in the battalion because we are all faced with the results of these decisions. Let me just check off a couple of things that have happened in the West that have destroyed jobs in the West. Obviously, in my State, the…
Thank you. I am actually very honored to be here with two friends who are talking about the significant problems we have in this country--simply, the lack of jobs. As we all know, government does not create jobs, but government can create…
It has been that way for the last 12 months. So, somewhere, somebody has to figure out what is unique about my State and about our area in the West that has given us this wonderful distinction of having the best joblessness in the Nation…
Let me throw a couple more statistics at you, and then I want to do some dialoguing here because the numbers are good, but we have to put them in context eventually. This administration is always big about saying, well, we need to have…
And I appreciate that. I think if you keep--I don't know if they can keep the cameras on that particular chart, but it is a telling chart. And it's one of the things that I think you are trying to say, that we have yet to learn lessons…
Before you actually put that chart down, I think you understated that sentiment. It's not just people who understand business are not comfortable with that. I don't understand business and I look at that chart and I'm not comfortable with…
Actually some of them we did, but the one especially about renewable energy products, the 380 renewable energy products that have not been allowed to go forward, which would be another quarter of a million jobs and $500 billion in economic…
So what the gentleman is telling me is that if Congress does nothing, there will automatically be a marriage penalty increase. Child deductions will go down. There will be another death tax increase. There will be a capital gains tax…
And so far we're a half a year away from the deadline and we have yet to do anything proactive about it.