John Garamendi

Is it worth a few days of oil supply for this nation to despoil it? I think not.

Pass the bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

We have a different view here. I'm confident that the President will be reelected because he understands very clearly that we need to put Americans back to work, And he has given us the American Jobs Act--complete legislation. All the…

Well, he pays 15 percent. Somehow or another they got into the law. The hedge fund folks that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year--in some cases, billions--are paying 15 percent on their income. Now they've got it classified…

Exactly right. Twenty-two million children living in poverty, not knowing where their next meal is going to come from. At the same time, they're cutting the food programs. This is our program. This is the President's program. Every one of…

I thought they might have some of that Tennessee whiskey in them. Some of that, too?

There you have it. That's when we have the opportunity if we act now. If this Chamber, empty but for three of us and our staffs here and the desk crew, were to act tomorrow on the legislation that the President has brought before us--it's…

One of my favorite subjects is Making It In America. The way the legislation is written, when that gallon of paint, when that heating/air-conditioning system or the playground equipment is brought to the school, it's going to be made in…

Actually, in discussing this with the administration, the day the bill is signed, the schools can begin the work because the administrative process is very straightforward. This is a very, very important one. We're talking 35,000 schools…

It is, therefore, extremely important, in my view, that that system, in all of its various ways, be protected.

Mr. Tonko, you and I were right here in the back of this House Chamber earlier today and you were sharing with me the stories. The reality in your district is these are your constituents who have been harmed. And we had our colleague…

Representative Tonko, as you were talking, I reached back and I found this display that we sometimes use. These are critical investments. Yes, infrastructure, the dams and the roads, those are critical investments. But here is the most…

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, you are a true leader. Your State of Texas is under a fiery assault and will also need direct Federal assistance, not only in fighting the fires but also in the eventual recovery, and that's certainly…

Indeed, we do. If we're going to have the American Dream continue to be a reality, we've got lot of work to do. We've got to put the American people back to work, and we're going to have to deal with the deficit, and it will take us a…

Thank you, Mr. Tonko. Let's move to the great State of Virginia, down in the tidewater country.

Ms. Jackson Lee, thank you so much. We have about 10 minutes left here, and I'd like to do lightning rounds. My colleagues, you've been so eloquent and have really brought these issues to bear, but why don't we all do a wrap--we'll do…

There you have it. Our colleague from Ohio, if you could comment. We're going to do this kind of moving along more rapidly. We've got several different comments. Our colleague from Texas is back. Please, if you would, and then I'll turn to…

If I might, my good colleague from Virginia, on the floor today it was perfectly clear that the Republicans are refusing to even consider any increases in taxes or the elimination of tax breaks, on oil, on corporations that send jobs…

Excuse me for a second, if I might interrupt. One of the proposals coming from some of the Republicans was to sell America's assets. Do you suppose they intended to sell the U.S. Capitol?

Excuse me. You said that Arizona has a balanced budget amendment in their Constitution and somehow they balance their budget.

Earlier this afternoon before we started this 1-hour, one of our colleagues on the Republican side brought up a nice little picture of a woman balancing her budget, presumably at home, and a checkbook. She said that 40-some States have a…

Mr. Perlmutter, you are so very correct. The American Dream, you laid it out there so well--job, family, home, ability to take care, kids off to school, good health care--the American Dream. When you get old, you've got Medicare, you have…

It is about jobs. There are very few economists-- except maybe some that supported the proposal that the Republicans put together today--but nearly every economist in this Nation said the only way we will ever get this Nation back to a…

Mr. DeFazio, thank you very much. You clearly pointed out the dichotomy between the Democratic proposal, which is one of building and creating and putting together a society and an economy that actually works, and the Republicans seem to…

In fact, the Secretarial order does follow the law. It precisely follows the law.