Mr. President, I would like to engage Senator Lincoln, chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, in a colloquy. Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which Chairman Lincoln was the…

Mr. President, I come to the Senate floor this afternoon to discuss two nominees for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals--Judges Jim Wynn and Albert Diaz. When I came to the Senate, I had high hopes of increasing the number of North…

Mr. President, it is disappointing that we cannot get consent for these judges. Senator Richard Burr and I together introduced these two individuals at the Judiciary Committee hearing. I will say that I remain committed to working with my…

Mr. President, before I begin, I congratulate Senator Dodd for all of the extremely hard work he has done on Wall Street reform. We are certainly pleased that we are at this point in time. ____________________

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

Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 238, noes 180, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No…

Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5-minute…

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the amendment and extraneous material be placed in the Record prior to the vote on the previous question. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman…

Madam Speaker, my colleague again is very selectively using statistics. He knows that he cannot back up the data that says that in the first year of President Obama's administration he has created more jobs than in all the Bush…

Madam Speaker, I just want to point out to my colleague from Massachusetts that the Republicans can't obstruct the President's effort because we are in the minority. And we don't have to obstruct him anyway because they've all failed…

Madam Speaker, I will invite my colleague from Massachusetts, when he speaks again, to give us the citation for the study that he's talking about that shows that this bill will save tens of millions of dollars. I have done a little…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I can assure my colleague across the aisle that I wasn't one of those people who went home to take credit for the Stimulus Act. So he needs to take that issue up with those who have…

Madam Speaker, I just want to quickly respond to two things that my colleague from Massachusetts said. He talks about the fact that the Federal Government is paying for wars. Well, let me say that the Constitution of the United States…

Reclaiming my time, I thank my colleague for pointing out the very important issue of the percentage of debt to the GDP because it is an important issue and our friends across the aisle have created much of that problem along with our…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. As I have said before on the floor here to my colleagues who want to rewrite history, they can't blame everything on President Bush. They can't continue to do that. And they want to give President…

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts for yielding time, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, as has become routine in this Congress, it's my sad duty to come before you yet again today to speak in opposition to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, throughout the West there are communities struggling to provide basic services because of a limited tax base and a shortage of non-Federal lands to build infrastructure…

Mr. Speaker, I had the honor to visit a North Carolina business success story last week. Bridgestone Aircraft Tire, located in Rockingham County, came to North Carolina in 2007 from Miami when their Miami manufacturing facility was taken…