I work for the people of the Gulf region. That is who I work for. I am totally independent.

We actually have a provision added to the CJS, Commerce, Justice, Science, appropriation bill demanding an audit and requiring the Justice Department to do it.

While long-term unemployment is now worse than at any time since the Great Depression and while Americans in growing numbers are becoming more and more concerned about the direction their country is heading, the one thing that is uniting…

I appreciate the gentleman from Kentucky yielding time. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I rise in support of the continuing resolution that is before us today. This CR continues government operations at an amount agreed to by…

I urge my colleagues to support this continuing resolution, as unpleasant as it is. We don't like being in this situation, but we're in this situation nevertheless. For the first time since 1974, we didn't pass a budget last year. We don't…

I rise to add my voice in opposition to the amendment offered by my friend from Ohio. I believe this approach taken by this amendment is misguided. The Appropriations Committee has put before the House a CR that makes significant cuts to…

This is a sad day, but a necessary day, to complete final action on a matter that honestly should have been concluded with a public trial. Mr. Rangel chose to walk out of that hearing and failed to present his case. Instead, we are left…

When EADS wins the competition this time, as they did the previous time, they intend to create almost 48,000 jobs in the United States, many of which, quite honestly, will be in my district in Alabama. But they will be in all 50 States. So…

It's interesting listening to both sides of this debate. We actually, I think, see this amendment in two different ways, and yet we are going to end up being on the same side. This amendment, as it has been revised, is far superior to the…

The WTO has only had an interim ruling, and everyone knows that. And within weeks, the WTO should be able to consider the complaint of the European Union against Boeing. To that point, $16.6 billion in R&D subsidies have been recorded for…

Spring break just ended, but if you thought Washington tax-and-spenders were taking a vacation from their money-grabbing ways, you were badly mistaken. Every day it seems another headline is proclaiming the administration's latest plans to…

Here we are on the verge of one of the most significant votes that Congress has ever taken. The only time that I can think of which perhaps rivals the importance of this vote has been when we have had to decide to send our Nation's finest…

If health care reform weren't such a serious subject, something that will affect every person in America, then what the Democrats are trying to do would prove to provide enough fodder for comedians like Letterman, Leno and Jon Stewart that…

Last week, the President and his administration were out in force bragging to anyone who would listen about how successful last year's trillion dollar stimulus bill has been. Vice President Biden left no doubt in anyone's mind when he…

Jobs, jobs, jobs. That was the message the President delivered last week in his State of the Union address.

I want to personally thank Mr. Kildee on behalf of Alabama fans all across the Nation for bringing this important resolution to the House floor today. Mark Ingram is an exceptional athlete. As my colleagues have noted, he won the Heisman…

One of the worst things that you can do is show up sick, because then you're going to infect your coworkers.

today one of our colleagues introduced the KC-X Recompete Act, and its message is clear: If the warfighter wants a new tanker to replace its aging fleet anytime soon, it has but one choice, the Boeing KC-767. This act would tell the…

Either our friends on the other side of the aisle have a bad case of amnesia, or their selective memory is such that they need to check themselves into the House physician's office. The Democratic majority likes to claim that when…

Time after time our Democrat colleagues have come to this floor over the past few months and said the American people voted for change on November 7. It was all about change. Well, if this Democratic budget passes and if our taxes go up…

I have done the math for people of south Alabama as well; and, if enacted, what the budget will mean to the average Alabama household is not good news. In fact, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are approximately 4.4 million…

I find myself compelled to come and say in the most direct way I know that I am opposed to this nonbinding resolution. Let me say that again for that is, after all, what we are talking about. This is a nonbinding resolution. It is nothing…

as a journalism student at the University of Alabama in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists. Sigma Delta Chi is the gold standard upon which the journalism profession…

in this chamber, even on the most partisan and bitter debates, it is both customary and a proud tradition to refer to our colleagues as the ``distinguished gentleman'' or the ``distinguished gentle lady.'' From time-to-time the American…

it is early in the debate but one thing is clear: our friends on the other side of the aisle seem to want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to blame the majority for the national debt and the rising cost of Federal spending…