It's a tragedy whenever something like this happens.

Well, thank you, Mr. Garrett. I appreciate your taking the lead in organizing this Special Order tonight to give us an opportunity to talk about the health care bill that has been proposed by President Obama and Speaker Pelosi. It has…

Madam Speaker, seniors who express concern about the Democrat plans for a government takeover of health care in our country are correct to be concerned for at least four reasons: The Democrat health plans do not address the fundamental…

Madam Speaker, the American people continue to struggle in this difficult economy. One of the counties in my North Carolina district is now suffering with the State's highest unemployment rate. Yes, people are hurting and need to be put…

To the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee, my friend from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch), and to the minority member who is managing the bill--and I do not recall your name right now and I apologize for that--thank you very much for…

One bill is particularly important to me, S. 2097, which I cosponsored, to rededicate the DC War Memorial as a National and DC World War I Memorial.

I fought for a provision to allow us to export highly enriched uranium for the purposes of us getting the medical isotopes we need in the marketplace.

It's been very productive so far this year, and I know all the members appreciate the leadership in addressing their bills in a timely fashion.

I think that we do know that some of them are constrained by some of the mandates that their countries have put on them.

That was my next question: What are you in CENTCOM doing to facilitate military-to-military confidence-building between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and then I threw in India too?

There are concerns about budgets in each of these countries, and yet they continue to contribute.

The will is there; the political capacity to deliver has been a challenge for some of them.

I know that the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade from Camp Lejeune is fighting the terrorists in Afghanistan, as well as Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne, and I wanted to echo the support that I have from North Carolina on behalf of all the…

Does an ethnically unbalanced ANSF pose linguistic and ethnic barriers within the local Afghan villages along this Pashtun tribal belt?

In order to do that, we have to address Pakistan's regional concerns, taking into account its relationships with Afghanistan and India.

I want to thank you for your sacrifice and your extremely hard work that you do every day on behalf of all of us.

Are you leaving? Are you going to abandon us again?

How do you recruit these individuals?