I want to thank the gentleman from Ohio for offering this resolution. I think every Member on this floor understands the critical importance of the National Guard in their own communities and in their State, and it's certainly appropriate…

Go out, let's see if you can pay the building--let's see if you can go out and run a backhoe, dig a ditch, or operate a bus or train or whatever. No, no, no, and when they lose their job here, as they should for this vote alone--they…

I know that you've worked hard for your district to try to bring in those jobs and to try to create the legislation that would bring the jobs into that district. As you were talking, I said, I'm going to go over and say just a couple of…

Mr. Ellison, thank you so very, very much. And I really want to congratulate you on the success of your reelection. And I know why you were reelected--because you have a heart. You've got a moral center that's focused clearly upon the…

Who had a good paying job 2 years ago, a year and a half ago, 6 months ago. These are men and women who over the years have been the backbone of this Nation, middle class America, and yet 143 of our colleagues on the Republican side didn't…

Well, this is another issue that's going to be before the Congress in the next couple of weeks, and that is, what are we going to do about the 2001, 2003 tax reductions that expire on December 31? Those tax reductions were pushed forward…

It is a local store. If you have no money, you are not going to do one thing for this economy except be an additional burden to it. And so if you have an unemployment check--and let's keep in mind, that's something that the workers and…

Well, because tax cuts, particularly at the upper income levels, don't equate to economic growth. You are quite correct, the George W. Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 helped create the extraordinary deficit that we currently have. There…

It's easy enough to say, but when you're out hunting for a job, you know these are difficult times. And we're going to make efforts to turn that around, and we've talked about that a little already, but the jobs are not there. We need to…

I thank you for this opportunity. Coming off the elections, everyone wants to know what the voters had on their minds. I'll share with you a few things that I heard from my voters in my district and throughout California--perhaps…

Earlier today we selected a minority leader for the next year. It is our current Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and as she left the caucus today she very clearly laid out an agenda for the Democratic Party. That agenda was Make It in America…

If you or anyone really cares about the deficit, you need to really pay very close attention to this debate that is going to happen here in this chamber and here in Washington, D.C., in the days and weeks ahead. And that is, do we give an…