John Garamendi

I would ask you to ponder, if you would, that responsibility to speak out on this issue.

I don't want sequestration. I voted not to have sequestration.

You must mean Make It in America. Spend our tax money on American-made equipment and jobs, not on Chinese or Japanese or anybody else, but on American jobs. We can do that.

Well, I, too, must go. But I thank you very much for allowing me to talk about three very important things. I appreciate that, Mr. Ellison.

Thank you so very much, Mr. Ellison. And thank you for your leadership on this and so many other issues. I'm looking at that sign next to you: ``Republicans' No-Jobs Agenda.'' A repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act and the Patients'…

Let me just take up some of those numbers because they're very, very exciting. Thirteen million Americans will receive $1.1 billion in rebates because the insurance companies have overcharged them. That didn't happen before this bill. I…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 148, line 11, after ``entity will'', insert ``ensure that domestic content makes up 85 percent of all steel, iron, and…

Nothing is going to get built until that process is completed. There has to be an environmental study.

The bill does not mandate 18 acres be purchased. It says up to.

There is no way that the Valley can continue in its present form.

Using eminent domain for the purposes of a private party has been rather controversial in recent years.

The bottom line of this: this is simply a play by the oil industry to gather more assets on their balance sheet, at the expense of the environment and, just as important, at the expense of a real, all of the above energy policy. It's a sad…

The number of USERRA complaints and inquiries reported to the Employer Support of Guard and Reserve increased 164 percent between 2008 and 2010.

The tragically high unemployment rate among veterans.

It's an honor to be before you today.

The unemployment rate among veterans in the 18 to 24 year-old age group is an alarming 23.5%.

7.7% of our veterans are unemployed is unacceptable for a Nation likes ours.

And as this body has made the decision to send these brave men and women to war, it is now our responsibility to ensure that they can return home to a job that enables them to support themselves and their families in the same manner as…

It is an honor to be before you today and I thank you for your continuing work to assist our veterans.

Wouldn't you love to go into K-Mart or Target and see on the shelves ``Made in America''?

I thank you for the courtesy of yielding. The fact of the matter is that 1.8 million people will not be able to get the supplemental food that they get from food stamps. They're going to be hungry. That's a fact. Now, the rest of the fact…

Thank you for bringing your passion for education. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Those are all legitimate questions, and this is a really important issue, and the memo does put on the table...

The question really is how to integrate all of the above strategies, which I hear from my colleagues all of the time, into the power available, electrical power available, across the United States and particularly across the Western United…

All of the fuss and fury and interesting political statements that have been made here about policies and religion really are not yet appropriate.