I thank the gentleman from Virginia for joining us and for his commitment to this very serious issue. There are approximately 5.1 million Americans who have Alzheimer's today, and it is expected to substantially grow. As the baby boomers…

``Alzheimer's,'' a word that brings fear and trauma to families all across America and, indeed, around the world. Tonight we are going to spend our time talking about this dreaded disease for which there is no known cure and which always…

Thank you, Mr. Rohrabacher. I know in your district--in the Orange County area--there is major medical research going on at the University of California at Irvine and, certainly, at UCLA, at the mind institutes there. Out of that research…

Ms. Kaptur, you are very, very correct about the role of trade policy and hollowing out the American jobs in almost every sector--you mentioned several sectors--and in every one of those, we have seen this happen. We are going to be…

I want to thank you and Mr. Tonko for joining us, so I have got Ohio and New York. Mr. Hoyer was here earlier from Maryland and Mr. Welch from Vermont. We covered a large part of the United States. We are all talking about what the…

Mr. Tonko, you have been here on the floor with me many times over the last few years, and we keep beating this drum about American jobs. We now have a policy from the President, middle class economics, that has all of the elements, many…

If I may interrupt here for a second? Thank you for the courtesy that you provided to me in the Rules Committee when the liquefied natural gas--the LNG bill came up and when we talked about how we could use that strategic asset to enhance…

Mr. Tonko, I thank you so very, very much. Ms. Kaptur, we are in what we call the rapid fire. You have about 2 minutes, then I will wrap it up with another minute, and we are out of time. If you would, please.

Refinance your home; refinance your student debt. It is a bookkeeping procedure at the Federal level. Right now, those students are paying a very, very high interest rate to the U.S. Government, and they are held back. This is a major part…

And Members, wow. There are actually people here in the audience and Members. We have talked a lot about middle class economics, but why? Why is it important? Why did the President raise this issue in his State of the Union? What is this…

I have always looked forward to a dialogue, a bipartisan dialogue, on important issues, and I didn't quite know that we would come to that at this moment while we await your staff bringing down their papers. In the meantime, I thank my…

I thank you, Mr. Hoyer. Nobody has been at this longer than you. You have been working in the Halls of Congress and across this Nation advocating for the middle class. Both Democrats and Republicans now agree that the middle class in…