I really believe that we have lulled ourselves into believing that we are truly safe and we don't need to keep up a stronger front.

I rise in strong support of this piece of legislation. This is so commonsense. This is so basic. It is as basic as blood is to the body, the access to capital for small businesses, the ability to raise capital in hard times. I will tell…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of S. 1280, the Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act of 2011. S. 1280 honors the memory of Kate Puzey. Kate, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from the state of Georgia, was murdered in…

Well-intentioned or not, we end up in a situation where we continue to throw good money after bad because we can't stand and tell people, you know what, it was a bad policy.

Just tell me, without the government subsidies, who would venture into this wonderland, and I mean wonderland, wondering if they could possibly work if it was their own money?

There's hardworking Americans whose money has been invested and I keep hearing this, there's an element of risk.

If we were to do it domestically, if we had a really aggressive domestic energy policy, where we actually use our own resources...

It has to be about actually reforming, what it is that we're doing, and if we're not doing it the right way, stand up and say we made a mistake and we're going to change it.

Every penny we're talking about comes out of the American taxpayers' pocket, and not only do they deserve a positive return on that, they should expect that from us.

There's nobody in the private sector that would continue to squander the capital that we're squandering right now on a reelection agenda and not on an energy policy that makes sense for America.

I mean, we wouldn't be spending petro dollars in countries whose ultimate goal is to annihilate us and we're funding that process.