The purpose of these hearings really, I cannot tell you, the way I look at it, to me there is such a bias.

I have to tell you, just coming from a private background, I look at this and I say, you know what? We got gamed on this.

it is very disappointing for me, not just as a Member of Congress, as a citizen of the United States, to look and say, so you know what? They didn't do what you wanted them to do, so we structured language to keep them out of the hall.

And I know we debate this all the time. But you could structure the language of this grant that would eliminate the conscience clause.

And I think this is where the question comes in: Why? Why now? Why do we go away from the way we used to look at things?

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.

A vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it . . . [a] protective shield for all of the Americas and all of the free lands of the Pacific Ocean area, a chain of islands extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas held by us…

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…

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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 amendment offered by…

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…

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.