This legislation is proof positive that when we sit down together and work in a bipartisan spirit, we can do things for the American people.
You need to go ask people whether we're better off than we were 8 years ago.
You are that reality, and you have changed America for the better.
We have to reach an agreement on this factfinding effort to determine what happened and how to keep it from happening again.
Arithmetic is what caused the Republicans to run the economy into a ditch.
This is serious. I want you to understand it.
I want to thank Representative Norm Dicks and Representative Ralph Regula for their extraordinary bipartisan leadership.
I have just signed this year's Department of Interior Appropriations Act.
We're better off than we were 8 years ago.
If more people had done what you did today, he would be ahead, not behind, in the polls.
Every one of these races is important.