I thank my colleague from Alabama. I would just like to add with all of this that I think the reason why we have such uncertainty in the marketplace with the job creators is because they're looking at us and are saying, You lack fiscal…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I really want to talk about something that I think is very critical for this Nation. It's about how we get our spending in order. I came from local government before I got here and then State government…

I thank you for your attention in this matter, and you're absolutely right. We've got to get control of the spending and get control of it now. It reminds me of when you're trying to go on a diet. And so if I'm trying to go on a diet back…

I thank my good friend from Missouri. You know, I often talk about kitchen table politics in this well because as Ronald Reagan said in his farewell speech, all good ideas begin at the dinner table. And they do. Look at this poster. This…

I'm actually one of the folks that read the bill before we passed it, and there are passages in the bill that do allow for Federal funding of abortion. What this bill does is it seeks to correct that language. The Hyde amendment clearly…

Just tonight we passed the debt ceiling vote, and it had a very critical feature, a feature that requires accountability in our House--a balanced budget amendment. Every day, millions of Americans sit at their kitchen tables, trying to…

I thank my good friend Mrs. Ellmers from North Carolina for hosting this Special Order this evening because this is about America's future and about America doing what each and every woman, each and every man, each and every family has to…

Today I rise to honor something really wonderful in my district, the 125th birthday of America's sixth-oldest amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio. What began as a 20-acre apple orchard on the banks of the Ohio River in 1867 was quickly…

I thank my good friend from Washington. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I really want to say thank you to my parents for instilling in me the opportunity to live the American Dream. My father didn't have much as a child. He didn't even…

A few moments ago my friend from California had an amendment that she did withdraw that really wanted to codify into law the USDA's rules regarding the school lunch program. And while I won't go into the lengthy reasons why it's the wrong…

It is a sad day for my district because today we're going to lay an American hero to rest, Private First Class William ``Seth'' Blevins. He was only 21. Just before Christmas in 1989, on December 22, Steven and Trish Wagnoner Blevins got…

I want to thank Chris Smith and Chairman Smith for this very simple but profound bill. Ladies and gentlemen, all this bill does is end public funding-- taxpayer funding--of abortion. The driving force behind H.R. 3 is simply to update the…

You know, times are tough, including in Congress. And we have to find wise ways to spend our taxpayer dollars. For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion. Planned Parenthood does over…

I would like to yield 2 minutes to my good friend from Idaho (Mr. Simpson), the chairman of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Appropriations.

May I inquire as to the balance of the time for both myself and Mr. Gibbs. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Ohio has 1\1/2\ minutes, and the gentleman from Ohio has 5\1/4\ minutes.

It is imperative that we act in a timely manner on H.R. 872 to ensure that our small businesses, farmers, communities, counties, and State and Federal agencies will not be burdened with a costly, duplicative permit requirement that offers…

Especially for women because we're always cast as the ones that really want abortion, and it's the men that don't want it, but you're telling me that 70 percent of the women in that December 2009 study adamantly opposed Federal funding of…

Thank you so much. I am really glad that you took the time to point out that survey, because I believe that the Nation has shifted its opinion on abortions since 1973. And maybe it's because with technology and the fact that sonograms can…