I thank my colleague from Colorado for yielding. Here we go again, my friends. Here we go again wasting another day of debate on a proposal that is more of a press release than a plan. News broke this morning that, from the moment Speaker…

Thank you, Representative Garamendi. Let me just say that the challenge for America to pay her bills, many of those bills that were accrued before this administration, is not a Republican challenge; it's not a Democratic challenge. It's an…

Representative Garamendi, it is a pleasure to join with you, speaking for your base in California, joining with our colleagues from Colorado and Texas and Connecticut and Ohio and Virginia, myself from New York, across this country, we are…

I thank the gentlelady for her leadership. I rise in opposition to the Republican rule. We have all been getting numerous phone calls from our constituents who are rightly worried that the interest rates will be going up on their homes, on…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 183, noes 244, not voting 5, as follows: [Roll No. 676] AYES--183 Ackerman Altmire Andrews Baldwin Bass (CA) Becerra…

Yes, I am opposed to this bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Hochul moves to recommit the bill (S. 627) to the Committee on Rules, with instructions to report the…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, here we are. The eyes of the world are upon us. The eyes of the American people are upon us, but, most importantly, the eyes of the people who put their faith in us in sending us to this institution are…

I thank our leader. Mr. President, the leader outlined it well. The House, for all its machinations, delays, and struggles, is pursuing a path to nowhere because their bill will not pass, will not become law. Fifty-three of the fifty-three…

I see that the minority leader is here, and I thank the majority leader for yielding.

That means this bill the leader will put on the floor tonight is the last train out of the station, and it also means, given the rules of the Senate, that only with bipartisan cooperation can we do it. So we are hoping and praying that our…

Mr. President, I will ask one more question. If we are unable to come to a compromise on the leader's bill, there is virtually no time, no matter what the House does, for the Senate to do anything before default is over. That means our…

Madam President, I wish to underscore what the leader has said. The bottom line is very simple. Speaker Boehner is busy twisting arms right now to try to get his bill passed through the House, but it is a futile gesture because that bill…

I thank my colleague from Iowa for the question. I concur in his findings. I haven't found one either. Democrats know we have different views on this side of the aisle, and many of us would write deficit-reduction bills differently than…

That is absolutely the fact. My colleague from Iowa is exactly correct. The bottom line is, yes. What we are talking about with the debt ceiling is debts we have already incurred. No American family has the luxury, once they sign up for a…

Again, my colleague from Iowa is on the money. There needs to be balance. The President has stressed this. I think everyone on our side has stressed this. We do have a serious deficit problem and a serious debt problem. We have to deal…

My colleagues, yesterday I was talking about the American Dream. But then again, I was thinking about how many people woke up this morning concerned about our national debt. When you represent the type of district that I do, and many other…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. We're here today, at long last, to vote on the Republican default plan. After 200 days without a jobs agenda, after 200 days of saying that those hardest hit by the recession should…

I agree with the two previous speakers, my colleagues from California. Here we are dealing with a flawed bill that would deny our stewardship of our environment all while we're faced with an economic consequence, with a default that stares…