I thank the gentleman from Maryland. You have been a long, long time leader in this House and on the subject of jobs and economic opportunity. I thank you very much for your kind comments. {time} 2030

Thank you very much. Our colleague from the great State of New York and Schenectady.

You and I had this colloquy on the floor where we discussed American manufacturing in making it in America. But I can see you came back charged up from that visit.

Thank you very much for joining us. Ms. Jackson Lee, why don't you take 1 minute and I will take 1 minute and we will wrap this thing up.

Thank you very much. Indeed, if it's our tax dollars, they ought to be used to buy things that are made in America. We're going to do a lightning round here. We've got about 6 minutes, and we've got about five of us. So, Mr. Hoyer, our…

Well, tomorrow night on this floor, the President of the United States will be here for his State of the Union Address. He has already signaled that he is going to talk about the innovation economy--that's education and research. He is…

For me, my work on this actually began in the mid- 1980s, in California, where we developed a strategy of how to keep California competitive in this century. Well, this century is now here. We are 10-plus years into this century, and we…

Thank you very much, Mr. Pallone, for pointing out the facts. The facts are that 4 weeks into this and not one discussion from our Republican colleagues about the central issue of America, which is jobs, how are we going to create jobs…

That's right. You are from Minnesota and the Minnesota Vikings. Okay, we will get past that.

I thought you were going to talk about Green Bay and the Packers and all of that.

We have always thought of America as being the land of opportunity; and it has to be the land of opportunity for everyone in this country, wherever they may be, whatever their status may be. And we know that if we are able to rebuild the…

Well, Representative Tonko, I think you were at the President's speech there in your district.