That is, the Democrats supported and passed the stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

You said something a moment ago when you were talking about the multinational corporations and whether we're willing to stand up to the multinational corporations and bring jobs back to America. Two and a half weeks ago, we came back from…

We have talked about various ways we can make it in America, certainly the fair trade dealing with China's currency and the whole idea of competition. We have talked about the way in which we have to make sure that our tax laws support…

You talked about the investment. A week ago, President Obama spoke to this issue of making it in America and of rebuilding the American industries. He spoke about the need to give significant tax breaks to businesses that want to invest…

We're talking about the most important game of all. It's not even a game. The most important thing of all is the American economy and how to keep it going and growing. To go back over it, during the Bush years, these are all of the reasons…

Well, we have about 10 minutes left, and I would like to bring us back really to where we started, or where I started this discussion, and that is, for the first 18 months, the strategy of the Democratic Party in this House, in the Senate…

Let me give another example of where we can set the stage for future manufacturing jobs in America. It was America that really created the photovoltaic cells. We've lost this industry in America. This is in China. Some of it is in Europe…

Yesterday, Dr. Kagen and I were in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, and Dr. Kagen was in the chair, and we heard from a panel of contractors and bus manufacturers that the stimulus bill actually created jobs. Dr…

Well, the answer is halfway home. This House passed legislation more than a month ago, and tomorrow I believe we will have that same legislation back for another vote. Our Republican colleagues universally voted ``no'' on ending the tax…

How correct you are. And we would reach out to our Republican colleagues and ask them to join us on Making It in America. We've had enough of our tax dollars shipped overseas to buy buses that are manufactured overseas, to buy trains and…

At the beginning of this discussion, the gentlewoman from Ohio talked about the wise use of our tax money, in this case in the water systems and the sanitation systems, to use that tax money for materials and products and machines that are…

Let me, if I might, just bring that to the West Coast. The San Francisco Bay Bridge, from Oakland to San Francisco, major artery, had a problem with the Loma Prieta earthquake and had to be rebuilt. It's been a long process to rebuild…