Thank you very, very much for the view from the great Ohio Valley. Before we started this 1 hour, you and I were chatting off the floor, and you raised another point and maybe the two of us can kind of talk about this for a second. We're…

I thank you so very much, Congresswoman Kaptur, for joining us. The heart and soul of America's manufacturing sector was the Midwest, and Ohio at one point was the strongest part of America's manufacturing economy. I know it can be…

I thank you for bringing up the question of innovation and research. It was a very big portion of that. I'm going to come back a little later to another piece of legislation that has passed this House, yet to pass the Senate. But with…

Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 397, noes 15, not voting 20, as follows: [Roll No. 426]…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule so that we can get on to discussing an extremely important matter, not only the domestic issues that will be included in this piece of legislation which are absolutely essential. We do need to…

This mantra that started from the Republican Party, I think it was the Presidential candidate, if I recall correctly. It was called ``drill baby drill.'' And what we found out was that this drill baby drill results in ``spill baby spill.''…

Let's just go through this. Who's side are you on? Democrats supporting jobs and bills. We talked about the Cash for Caulkers and other programs and the jobs bill, every single one of them opposed. No jobs bills. Unemployment insurance…

Thank you so very, very much for making that clear. You go through all of these pieces of legislation, and the Democratic Caucus is there. On the other side of the aisle, on the Republican side, they're standing with Big Oil, big banks…

Absolutely true. Similarly, we have a well-regulated financial market, which we will when this bill is finally is signed, then we will. The point that I want to make is this, and that's why I brought this thing up: Where do you stand…

Okay. We've got the Packers playing the Vikings. They do that on occasion, don't they? Imagine that if the sidelines were erased and imagine if the referees were put back in the locker room. What would happen?

You said something that caused me to pull up a chart that I wasn't going to use. The financial meltdown nearly bankrupted the world. Not just America, but the entire world's economy came very, very close to a total meltdown. What it meant…

The gentleman is absolutely right. I know I see this in my own district, and in fact in my own neighborhood and in the families of my staff. We have on my staff families who have lost their home; who have had to do the short sale; who got…