Early childhood years are the most formative of time for the brain, and the more we can do to help educate...

Now, if you could serve 100 kids and have no quality, but you could serve 50 kids and have quality, what would you choose?

Even if that's a high water mark, which is an appropriate term I think today for Maryland.

We've got to look at the way we teach these folks to make sure it's appropriate for what we're asking them to do.

Far too many kids in this country are in child care subsidized and paid for by the Federal Government that is not safe, healthy, or of general good quality.

the length of time that it's been since we reauthorized the Act is a reminder to us of how things have shifted since then

It is time to put a Director in place so that the Bureau can fulfill its important mission.

Our purpose was to relieve unfair and costly burdens imposed on American businesses, while still maintaining critically important consumer safeguards.

the economic impact that the agricultural industry will face because of this proposed rule is absolutely devastating.

they were a victim of it, I guess, would be a better way to put it.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in strong support of this very important bill. Almost 3 years ago, President Bush signed H.R. 4040, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, into law. While that bill…

Mr. Speaker, we should never have reached this point. Under Democratic and Republican presidents alike, Congress has always fulfilled its responsibility to pay our nation's bills when they come due. We have disagreed vehemently about…

Mr. Speaker, it doesn't appear that I have any other speakers on this side. I think their attention might be directed in another direction today; so I am prepared to close. Again, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank all of the individuals, all of…

I want to thank the gentleman from Montana for working with us in crafting this compromise, and I hope he is satisfied with the ATV component. He has worked very hard and his staff has worked very hard to bring it to our attention. Mr…

I hear from constituents all the time, particularly small businesses in North Carolina, and they too are frustrated because their premiums obviously continue to increase.

I thank my colleague from California, the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, for yielding. I just did an interview with the TV station in my district. One of the questions that the interviewer asked is, ``What does this mean to…

At the beginning of the debt ceiling debate, House Republicans made it clear that if the President and congressional Democrats wanted us to pay their bills, they were going to have to commit to cutting up the credit cards. The simple truth…

Mr. President, we are here debating the government's fiscal deficit. It is an important topic, one worthy of serious debate. Of course, I wish I could characterize the mindless partisanship of the last several months as serious debate, but…