I was going to head out the door, but your Tesla story caught me as I was about to leave. The grid, we need to have a smart grid. This is one of the things that is in contention here. This is about energy research. Now, we need to…

Why don't we work together here. But before we pass the baton to our colleagues here, I think we all need to recognize the extraordinary work that you have done over these many, many years on this issue, and understand now how it affected…

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for her very thoughtful and thorough discussion of this piece of legislation. It is about all women. We should never exclude any women from the protection of this law. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the…

I thank you for the opportunity to take this 1 hour. We want to spend this hour discussing a piece of legislation that is extraordinarily important to every woman and every man who lives within the United States. It's the Violence Against…

I thank you for the courtesy of yielding. The fact of the matter is that 1.8 million people will not be able to get the supplemental food that they get from food stamps. They're going to be hungry. That's a fact. Now, the rest of the fact…

I think I'll let this thing cool down a little bit. But the gentleman on the other side of this debate is quite wrong. There's no balance in this particular bill at all. There is no balance. The cuts are devastating. Meals on Wheels for…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. ___. The amounts otherwise provided by this Act…

For more than 20 years, there's the question of what to do with the San Joaquin River, a river that was essentially dried out and a river in which the indigenous species--salmon and other fish--were simply nonexistent. That fight went on…

Day after day, or at least week after week, my colleagues and I are here on the floor talking about jobs. It is about jobs and jobs and jobs again. Our agenda, which we call ``Make It in America,'' is an agenda that would rebuild the…

I applaud you for your wisdom and urge you to carry on and succeed.

I thank you, Mr. Clarke. The clock is ticking--not the Clarke clock, but the clock is ticking. Sixty-six days before the student loan interest rates double. We had a long conversation here about tax policy from our colleagues on the…

I want to thank the leader for the opportunity to take this hour to discuss some extremely important issues here in the United States. We've just listened to an hour discussion on taxes with actually very, very little specificity as to…