Once again we're back here on the floor of the House of Representatives to talk about what I believe is the most pressing problem here in the United States, and that's jobs. Americans want to work, Americans are capable of working, and it…

Well, we certainly will create a new recession. We know that 750,000 Americans will be unemployed, lose their jobs by the end of this fiscal year--that would be the first of October--as a result of sequestration. Now, it's not that we…

If you use American taxpayer money to buy American- made equipment, supplies and products.

If the gentlelady would yield for a moment, you're exactly right about the infrastructure. We need to build it. I notice that our colleague from Ohio has joined us. The last time we were on the floor, we talked about these issues. So if…

Thank you very much, Mr. Clyburn, for your excellent exposition of the problem faced by the middle class, by the working families of America: the fact that over the last 40 years they've seen virtually no progress in their economic status…

I thank you so very, very much for really bringing to all of our attention the extraordinary impact that the sequestration is having on American families. Jobs are being lost. Real jobs are disappearing, and Americans, working men and…

I want to thank the gentleman from Ohio, who knows what it is to rebuild the manufacturing base, and I thank you for the work that you've been doing. We have just a few seconds, Ms. Norton, if you could wrap and then I'll wrap, and we'll…

It seems to me as though there is a lack of coordination across the various departments, with the Air Force abandoning some pieces of equipment that appear to be necessary for some of the things you are doing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Generals, thank you for your service and for the testimony today.

I suspect that a lot of the problem that we have heard from various--from us and others comes not so much from the Corps but rather from us.

Mr. Ryan, I thank you so very much for joining us this evening. We're still the strongest, best country in the world. There's no other place like America. And if we begin acting like we can and are a strong, robust, building, growing…

It's good to be back here for another week of work. We certainly have work to do. Out across this Nation there are a lot of people that are still unemployed, and it's time for Congress to take this extremely important task and to get it…