But let me just add a couple of things. You hit one of my hot buttons there. I am on the House Armed Services Committee, and I asked, how much money do we spend protecting the flow of oil? Well, the Department of Defense didn't come up…

Thank you very much, Representative Clarke. Your passion for this issue was well displayed in that Detroit Chrysler advertisement. And I would just point out, before I turn back to Ms. Kaptur, that Chrysler and General Motors were saved as…

Mr. Speaker, I'm joined this evening by my friend from the great State of New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), and tonight we want to talk about the economy. We want to talk about what's happened over the last 2 years, how the United States economy…

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

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

I think Mr. Pallone would like to come back and pick up this investment strategy that you talked about. {time} 2020

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.

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…

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

We can do those things, but we have to have wise public policy accompanying the spirit of America. The desire for opportunity and the desire to better ourselves has to be accompanied by wise public policy. For example, right now many of…

American corporations received a tax reduction when they shipped a job offshore. In this House, a bill was introduced. It eliminated that tax deduction, bringing back $12 billion annually to the Treasury, helping the deficit. Our…