I thank the gentlelady from Illinois who speaks so eloquently on this. As you were talking about the schools, 44 percent of the principals across this Nation say clearly that their schools are not up to the standard that they want to have…

Actually, in discussing this with the administration, the day the bill is signed, the schools can begin the work because the administrative process is very straightforward. This is a very, very important one. We're talking 35,000 schools…

Representative Edwards, thank you so very much for your compassion and passion for these issues. Bringing FDR, the monument, and Martin Luther King together around this set of issues is really important. This is the worst economy since the…

There you have it. That's when we have the opportunity if we act now. If this Chamber, empty but for three of us and our staffs here and the desk crew, were to act tomorrow on the legislation that the President has brought before us--it's…

Mr. Cohen, thank you so very much. Your experience from the great Midwest, along America's great river, is really important for us to understand. We really have an opportunity here right now. This legislation is before Congress and the…

I thought they might have some of that Tennessee whiskey in them. Some of that, too?

So a warehouse with a payroll last year of $7 million that this year hires 40 new workers, it would add $2 million to its payroll. It would get a full refund of the 6.2 percent payroll taxes paid on the $2 million of payroll. How much is…

I've been kind of shuffling the boards down here because you went through several subjects along the way, and each one is so terribly important and pertinent to the issue. But I think I can wrap it all up in this, and that is, America lost…

So taxes are part of it. The energy policy, we haven't talk about that. We talked about labor--putting men and women back to work. And the education system, 280,000 new teachers or teachers in the classroom. Research and infrastructure…

The American public, through the TARP program, bailed out Wall Street, bailed out the banks, and the banks have done nothing. The big Wall Street banks have done nothing except enrich themselves at the expense of the American taxpayer…

Pass the bill. Pass the bill. Put Americans back to work. I'm going to quickly go through some of the parts of this bill and the way in which they affect Americans. It's about investment, investing in our infrastructure: $50 billion…

I suspect that all of us, all 435 of us, went back to our districts during the August recess. Now, I would suspect that most every Member of this House heard what I heard. I suspect that all of us who were listening heard the same message…