Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume, and I thank my colleague from Colorado for yielding me this time. Madam Speaker, I am going to talk about this rule and the underlying bill, but I have to say again, in response to…

Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 223, nays 168, not voting 42, as follows: [Roll No. 583] YEAS--223 Ackerman Altmire Andrews…

Madam Speaker, as I sit here and listen to my colleagues across the aisle, I want to remind them that the American people showed on November 2 that they're not buying the class warfare that our friends are still trying to sell. We're a…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. I realize that we are here to debate something other than the continuation of the tax cuts and staving off the tax increases which are coming right around the corner. However, it is…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I think the debate on this bill today points out why we have such a broken system in this country right now. {time} 1250 The Federal Government has no business being in the farm…

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor the rich and transformative legacy of Jerry Long. Mr. Long died earlier this month after serving as a leader in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, civic and business life for decades. From his years of…

Madam Speaker, when I first ran for public office in 1994, I said then that we have too much government. We still have too much government. In fact, we have way more government than we had then, and it is too much. But Republicans have…

I have got this memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs, dated November 22, 2010, and it says that the duty to assist as demonstrated in an order and examinations for securing private medical records do not apply in this program.

Mr. President, as I see my colleague, Senator Burris, still on the floor, I wish to thank him for his excellent work and his comments today. He will certainly be missed by all of us.

Mr. President, today I rise in support of S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, and also in support of an amendment I cosponsored with my colleague from Montana, Senator Jon Tester. Each year, upwards of 70 million Americans are…

Madam Speaker, I am going to urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question so I can amend the rule to allow all Members of Congress the opportunity to vote to cut spending. Republicans recently launched the YouCut initiative…

Madam Speaker, politicians like to talk about cutting deficits. President Obama and his fellow Democrats seem to think tax increases are the only way to lower the deficit. Earlier this year, the President released a budget that called for…

I yield myself such time as I may consume, and I thank my colleague from New York for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? After their thorough…

Madam Speaker, I just point out to my colleague from Oregon that telework already exists. Federal employees can do it already. What this bill does is allocate $30 million and create more bureaucracy. We're not stopping telework. We're not…

Madam Speaker, our colleague from Oregon has just given us another example of how out of touch our colleagues across the aisle are. If he thinks that public radio is balanced and unbiased and our taking away that funding will have serious…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. You know, before we took our recess to be at home for the elections, every bill that was brought here was about jobs. That didn't work, obviously, because our unemployment rate is…

Madam Speaker, I now yield 4 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cantor).

Madam Speaker, the evidence is in. The liberal Democrat agenda has failed. They need to go back to the drawing board and come back to the American people with real solutions to their real problems. This isn't the time to dither and blame…