These rules, I will admit are a responsible request from this Congress, from Dodd-Frank, but Section 619, in my opinion, will be a self-inflicted wound on this country, its economy, and its financial markets.

I think that is becoming evident to all of us. It will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.

I believe this will restrict capital, I believe it will drive up the cost of loans, and I believe it will make our financial markets and, thus, our economy and our country less safe.

Let me thank the gentleman for yielding this brief time for me to respond. Mr. Speaker, I want to join my friend from Georgia, Mr. David Scott, in trying to expose some of the hypocrisy that we are seeing playing out here on the House…

I thank my colleague from South Carolina for handling the rule and for yielding 2 minutes. I want to say, first off, that we should all vote for this rule, and we should vote for the resolution that's going to come up later. I want to…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. House Republicans fulfilled our pledge to Americans by including no earmarks--no earmarks--in the 2011 and 2012 spending bills. This is a huge success. After years of status quo pork-barrel spending, Republicans…

I want to thank the distinguished gentleman from California, the chairman of the Rules Committee, to whom we all look for wisdom, especially at times like this. I think he has been extraordinarily generous in his comments this morning in…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that we are finally considering an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2012 to fund critical Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security. After a year of lurching from one manufactured…

These cuts in grants will seriously hamper States and communities in their preparedness efforts. We simply have to do better next year. While this is an imperfect bill, under the circumstances we know it could have been much worse. It's…

You know, I asked earlier about this notion of what happens with Greece.

So the swap line is about direct American exposure in that regard?

I thank the ranking member.

Mr. President, I wish to thank the chairman and the ranking member for allowing this colloquy to take place. I also wish to state that I believe the Senator from Oklahoma laid out a little bit of the groundwork of what we are discussing…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all time in the quorum call be divided equally. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. Speaker, this week I learned of a recent audit of North Carolina's Medicaid billing system. Normally, I don't bring up State issues like this before the House, but it turns out that this isn't just a State issue. North Carolina is…

There can be no question that a healthy European economy is vital to the national interest of the United States and the American taxpayer.

The economic risk is real to the American taxpayer. It is a question of the magnitude of that risk.

I don't think there is anybody on this planet at this point that thinks the Greeks are going to pay back 100 Euro cents on the Euro on their debt.