Should this deal be approved, AT&T and Verizon will control close to 80 percent of the national cell phone market.

It must be stopped, and the fate of this acquisition determines the course of this industry.

If AT&T is permitted to devour one of the two remaining independent national wireless carriers while the rest of the world achieves advances in technology and innovation for the 21st century, the United States could go backwards to our…

I came to Washington because we are bankrupting this Nation. We are here at a very serious time.

We simply cannot afford to have inefficient and ineffective Government.

I used the analogy earlier today, because I have a dirty garage, but if you are going to try and clean it, you start somewhere.

As we talk today about the importance of repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate, we also have to focus on replacing the Medicare Fee-For-Service Payment System with a model that has some better incentives aligned rewarding quality…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, today we are presented with an opportunity to take a giant step toward protecting the unborn. For almost 35 years, restrictions on the use of Federal funds for abortion have been enacted…

If the nations of OPEC were private companies, such conduct would be nothing more than naked price fixing, illegal under the most fundamental principles of antitrust law.

Now, passage of this bill would not require the administration to take any action at all.

I think there are 13 nations of OPEC--as you know, they get together several times a year and limit supply.

we are all proud of the extraordinary efforts undertaken to finally bring Osama bin Laden to justice, and, of course, we congratulate all of those involved.

the Justice Department's highest priority has been and will remain the steadfast and vigilant protection of national security.

Can you give us a more definitive answer as to whether or not you would support a bill that would make it illegal for nations to get together and limit supply?

That is why I have introduced my NOPEC legislation, designed to make nations that participate in OPEC price fixing liable under U.S. antitrust law.

I would like to continue to lobby you on restoring some of that cut.

And if you do that, you still can't balance the budget. You cannot tax your way out of this problem. We have to reduce our spending. If we reduce our spending and we reform our Tax Code, we can bring prosperity back to this country. But to…

Madam Chairwoman, in reference to one of the charts we just saw from the gentleman from California, I found it interesting that he laid out many different debts and deficits from prior Presidents, but the one he failed to present to this…