Thank you, Senator Sessions. I think your personal experience and your passion for this is obvious and contributes significantly to this discourage today.

I would like to state that, without objection, we will enter into the record a number of letters that Senator Murkowski had asked be put into the record.

I rise in support of the Polis amendment. He and I are introducing this amendment so that we can, once again, demonstrate the lack of compatibility of the priorities of this budget to the overall well-being of our country. The Cold War…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment. After Congress privatized the United States Enrichment Corporation in 1996, we quickly learned that it couldn't survive in the private sector without continued and repeated bailouts to the…

The reason Mr. Fortenberry and I are making this amendment is that it would address a wrongheaded plan by the Department of Energy to build a facility to produce dangerous, highly radioactive nuclear fuel that no one actually wants to buy…

I thank the gentleman from Indiana very much. I just rise to briefly talk about light bulbs, because I know it's a subject of great interest to all of the Members, and I know that there is going to be an effort by some Republican Members…

It's time for the GOP to put the needs of all American families ahead of millionaires and Big Oil companies.

my recollection is that the CBO analysis showed that it really just shifted a lot of the rising health care costs off the Medicare program and on to seniors, is that not right?

We call upon Speaker Boehner to put the President's job proposal to a vote on the floor of the House.

And yet for many in the House of Representatives compromise remains a dirty word.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me just pick up first where the chairman left off with some of his hypotheticals.

while it may somewhat reduce the amount of reduce the amount of risk and cost shift to seniors, it does not eliminate that problem.

I do think it is grossly irresponsible for anybody to threaten that the United States will not meet its obligations unless we enact somebody else's version of how to best reduce the budget.

the Republican budget that he supports would require a $5.2 trillion dollar increase in the debt ceiling.

the recovery bill, the stimulus bill, helped the economy relative to not doing a stimulus, and the answer from CBO and 80 percent of economists is that it helped the economy.

we have saved or created over three million jobs.

Unfortunately the Speaker's threat to let the nation to default on its debt if Republicans cannot impose their European-style austerity plan is cementing the view in capital markets that lawmakers will fail to reach an agreement before the…

I want to get back to fact we in the Democratic alternative budget proposed a balanced approach that combines needed cuts.