Mr. Chairman, on rollcall No. 806, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Grijalva The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the…

I think sometimes in the world the shape of your eye or the color of your skin makes you think you're different, absolutely not true. We're all the same.

It really would be nice if we could quit worrying about reelections and start worrying about getting things fixed.

I rise in strong support of the bill. I can speak very clearly about the relationship that we have with Korea because, in addition to being a General Motors dealer who sells Chevrolets and Cadillacs, I also sell Hyundais and Kias. I can…

It makes absolutely no sense. I can stock a Chevy Cruze, which is about a $17,500 car and turns every 30 to 40 days out of inventory, or I can have a Volt, which never turns and creates nothing for me on the lot except interest cost.

It is absolutely insane that we continue down this path.

It makes absolutely no sense to those people. I am talking about hard-working, taxpaying American public that actually needs transportation to get back and forth to work.

``I cannot believe you guys put yourselves behind the eight ball.'' Well, that's what my football coaches used to say whenever our team botched a play or missed an opportunity to win a game. As we mark 888 days since the Senate has passed…

If it has such a great value and is such a significant part of our transportation strategy as we go forward, it should pretty much sell itself.

CAFE standards really don't drive the market; the price of gasoline does.

the cost of building these vehicles, by the way, is going to be so burdensome that private transportation as we know it is no longer going to be viable.