not more than 23 minutes ago, the House, under the Republican leadership, voted to remove almost $120 million of funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's where the information comes from about the tsunami…

10 weeks ago on this floor there was great celebration by our colleagues in the Republican Party as they took control of this House, and there were many sermons given to all of us by the Members in the majority party about the need to…

Yes, we ought to look to the children. Last Sunday on ``60 Minutes'' was a report about our children in America today. Twenty-five percent of our children in America today are hungry, and many of them are homeless because their parents…

And reduce the budget deficit. Our President in his State of the Union said that we have to out-educate, out-research, out-manufacture and out-build the rest of the world. Yet the first significant piece of legislation that the Republicans…

Today we want to talk about jobs. The people in my district, the 10th Congressional District of California, in Concord, Antioch, Pittsburg, Fairfield, Livermore, they want jobs. They want to go to work. They want this government to create…

I hate to see a 30 percent cut in your historic preservation programs.

Sandy Hook needs your attention. This is a jewel in the most densely populated state in the country.

We will have to rely upon private philanthropy more--well, we have to continue that.

I can't over-emphasize the importance of this, not just to New Jersey, but to the whole nation.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The fundamental idea behind the parks is that the country belongs to the people.

If we were to look at the proposal that President Obama put forth in his budget that came out about a month ago, he put forth a program that would hold government expenditures at a 5-year freeze, that is, no increase, but they're being…

This is a great country, and we're going to have a great future. We're in tough times right now, and we've been in tough times in the past. But if we have wise, thoughtful policies, we'll pull this country together, and we will deal with…