We're going to put people back to work, and one way we're going to do it is with a clean energy policy. We need a national security policy on energy. I know that part of that solution is going to come from Colorado where they are doing the…

We've been joined by an individual from the great State of Vermont who has spoken many times on this floor about jobs and about what we need to do. Thank you for joining us. Share your thoughts.

Mr. Tonko, once again you are on the right track here. Earlier before you came in I was discussing our Republican colleagues, Women's Day, and they were all talking about the great value in the balanced budget constitutional amendment. My…

You've moved to a subject that we really want to get to, which is jobs, but this is my favorite.

And on the individuals. Let's move on beyond it. But this is something that I always put up when we talk about Medicare, and that is it was 1965. This is a tombstone, and it says: Medicare 1965-2011. Created by LBJ. Destroyed by the GOP…

Three votes in the first 6 months, now 6\1/2\ months of this new Congress, three votes by the Republicans that have put up three different measures that terminate Medicare as we know it.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am going to be joined by my colleagues today, and we are going to talk about the financial situation here in the United States and about the meaning of the various ideas and proposals that have been put forward. I…

Thank you so much for bringing our attention to the way in which the balanced budget amendment would fundamentally alter the very nature of our government. Earlier I talked about the majority vote versus the minority rule that is in this…

Before we leave the balanced budget amendment, the bill that was on the floor yesterday had two other pieces to it. One of them was to go after the budget of the United States and reduce it by $111 billion, beginning in October of this…

Peter, as we stand here on the floor of this House debating an extraordinarily important moment in time about the direction we're going to go, this issue of paying our bills, we need to understand that what we're really talking about here…

We're going to make it in America. When we do, America will make it. We will put forth, as Democrats, a jobs program. We're going to invest, we're going to grow, and we're going to build this economy. That's our promise. I yield back the…

Well, the Republican--we heard it here over and over again, it was cut, balance--whatever. What I kept hearing is cut, slash, and burn because they're going to cut and slash critical programs for seniors. I think what Americans really…