I am going to pick up right on the issues that you raised. These are the essential elements of a manufacturing strategy. So if we are going to make it in America, we need to make things in America and these are the essential things. You…

Your kind words are much appreciated. But you are very much a part of this. This logo itself and the theme Make It In America was one that you developed. And we appreciate that and value the leadership that you have put into this. I want…

Well, I love the title, but even more so, I love the purpose of your legislation. Using our tax dollars to build the infrastructure, the water, the sanitation systems that every city, every community needs, and using that money to buy…

There's a piece of legislation that someone introduced that's called Don't Let American Jobs Go Down the Drain. Do you know who that was who introduced that piece of legislation?

And yet we're seeing across this Nation a Republican attack on unions claiming that unions are bad. But the great history of this Nation is that the union movement, collective bargaining over these many, many decades did in fact create the…

Our Republican colleagues have consistently said we ought to listen. And apparently all that we know about tax policy, there's little or no support for reducing the taxes on the super wealthy but rather they go the other way. And we're…

Thank you so very much. And how correct you are in laying out this strategy of how we can move the American manufacturing industry: Education, a well-educated workforce; research on fundamental issues like energy systems, batteries…

In the Republican continuing resolution, H.R. 1, they reduce the research budget for energy research here in America, cutting out vital research at the Department of Energy, at the laboratories across this Nation. And what are they…

Precisely so. Look at their budget proposal. Their budget proposal says that the oil companies in the last 10 years have earned a profit of $947 billion. That would be $53 billion less than $1 trillion in profits, nearly $1 trillion in…

Thank you very much for laying out the thematics as well as the past history. Our theme in the Democratic Caucus here in the House is one of making it in America--once again, going into Target, going down to the local automobile…

There is a lot of discussion here on the floor, around Washington, and across this Nation about the American financial situation. Some people say America is broke. There couldn't be anything further from the truth than that statement…

Any effort to privatize Social Security must be categorically rejected.