Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Patients' Rights Repeal Bill, and I find it absolutely regrettable that my Republican colleagues have made this their first priority of the new Congress. Rhode Islanders sent me here with a…

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the repeal of the job-killing ObamaCare legislation. This bill is a whopping 2,500 pages, a monstrosity of new spending and government bureaucracy, rushed to approval after only 48 hours of…

The American people recognize Republicans have a better plan, one which reduces health care costs and gets lawyers and bureaucrats out of our doctors' and nurses' offices. Let's repeal this bill, focus on bipartisan initiatives we all…

Small business tax credits are critical to providing small businesses the opportunity to provide insurance to their employees. We made a promise to those small businesses to do everything we can to make it easier for them to thrive in this…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 2. We know that if we repeal this law, we know the following things will happen: Children with preexisting conditions will be denied coverage…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this resolution and in honor of the victims and those left suffering as a result of last weekend's devastating tragedy in Arizona. In what can only be described as a…

Madam Speaker, I rise today without a script, but to send my thoughts and prayers, and those of all of the thousands of people from my district, out to the Congresswoman's family, to the Congresswoman herself, and to all the families that…

Section 8: ``The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be…

the hospital orderly pushing the trolley down the halls of the hospital at 2 in the morning is paying a higher tax rate right now in this country than the 400 top income earners who are bringing home a third of a billion dollars a year.

I met with maybe 14 of our realtors in Rhode Island a couple of months ago. Every single one of them had the experience of a short-sale agreement with the bank pending, and in the middle of it, another part of the bank whacked them with a…

I would urge the distinguished Ranking Member to at least keep a bit of an open mind as to the potential for high-speed rail.

Every one of us has heard it from our constituents.

If there is something that is sort of basic and American, it is that when you are dealing with somebody else, you ought to be able to get a person on the phone who can make a decision in your case instead of being stuffed into this…

So how do we fix it?

I noticed the other day that the IRS had reported that the 400 top income earners in the country... had paid total Federal taxes of 16.6 percent.

I can assure you that I am prepared for that work, and I think every member of this Committee would be prepared for that work.

I think it is fair in terms of that to at least exempt President Clinton from responsibility for our deficit.

Social Security as a program is not actuarially at fault for the need that we will have to fund the cash needs.