The companies doing business here are not real companies; they are phony-baloney shell corporations that are designed to hide assets and to play games with the tax system. This income never even makes it into the 18.2 percent of the…

Mr. President, if we pass the Rebuild America Jobs Act, we will immediately invest $50 billion into our transportation infrastructure and generate hundreds of thousands of good jobs and establish a national infrastructure bank which will…

I appreciate your attention to it.

We face particular challenges there, and we haven't quite gotten our arms around what those challenges are and how do we best guard against that threat.

With respect to the nuclear area, sir, I would make a personal appeal, and that is that this committee needs to influence the thinking of another jurisdiction, in Energy and Water, with respect to, in particular, the renovation of the B61…

Obviously, diplomacy, information, our military power, our economic power, these are all vitally important to our national security.

Our nuclear deterrent, obviously, must remain credible while we are simultaneously looking to components of our arsenal where we can save revenue.

Every day, as we know, overseas criminal networks target Americans, weakening our economic prosperity and compromising our safety.

Today's hearing provides us an opportunity to evaluate our current statutory authorities, law enforcement tools, and resources for protecting the American people from the serious and ever growing threat of international organized crime.

The international organized crime networks we confront today are significantly different from La Cosa Nostra and other criminal networks we confronted in the past.

I think, like many Members of Congress, am very concerned about the capability and the capacity and really the corruption

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Leon Mathieu Senior Center. This nationally accredited and certified senior center recently celebrated 30 years of service to seniors in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The Leon Mathieu Senior Center is…

I always want to begin my comments about the SBA with recognizing the great director in Rhode Island, Mark Hayward.

I think we have a lot of financing tools that were designed during a different age of industrial and manufacturing, and we really need to have this nimbleness in government to be able to respond to this new economy.

Mr. Speaker, my home State of Rhode Island, like the rest of the country, is facing a jobs crisis. The President put forth a comprehensive jobs bill which puts teachers, first responders, and construction workers to work and puts money in…

Thank you for this opportunity to present testimony in support of H.R. 2027.

We might be sort of captives of our history.

I contend that we are on the losing end of the single greatest transfer of wealth through piracy and illicit behavior in the history of humankind, and we are doing awfully little about it.