Nancy Pelosi

We cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary.

We cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary.

My colleagues, as we gather here today, the American people are watching and are waiting. They want to see if we can act on their behalf. They want to know if we have heard their pleas. They are concerned about their jobs--whether they can…

As we recognize John today, we thank and congratulate his family for sharing him with us: his wife, the lovely Deborah as he refers to her; and his children, John, the Third, Christopher, Jeannie and Jennifer. Last night, hundreds of…

What we had in the bill that we wish was still -- we wish that was still there, but the fact is, is that there's plenty there to create the nearly four million jobs that the president has set as our goal.

What we had in the bill that we wish was still there, but the fact is that there's plenty there to create that nearly four million jobs that the president has set as our goal.

As President Obama cautioned the nation, that we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary. And we will not.

As President Obama cautioned the nation that we cannot allow the perfect to be the effective enemy of the effective and of the necessary and we will not.

Pay equity, fairness to women in the workplace, the Lily Ledbetter act, this is the -- these are our priorities.

Put me down as clearly as you possibly can as one who wants to have those tax cuts for the wealthiest in America repealed.

We call this the barbershop. Everybody is getting a haircut here in terms of the conditions of the bill.

Both the Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration to try and settle on one car czar who can actually have a term that's going to last longer than George W. Bush; it's unprecedented cooperation we're talking about for…

We call this the barber shop. Everybody is getting a haircut here in terms of the conditions of the bill.

I believe that -- that an intervention will happen, either legislatively or from administration. I think it's pretty clear that bankruptcy is not an option.

I believe that an intervention will happen either legislatively or from the administration. I think it's pretty clear that bankruptcy is not an option.

Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money.

They claim to be free market advocates, when it's really an 'anything goes' mentality. No regulation, no supervision, no discipline. And if you fail, you will have a golden parachute and the taxpayer will bail you out. Those days are over…

They claim to be free market advocates when it's really an 'anything goes' mentality. No regulation, no supervision, no discipline.

Everybody knows that we must intervene. And so we will act and we will act deliberatively and in a bipartisan way, and soon.

The party is over for this, no-regulation, no-supervision, anything-goes so-called free market, which has taken us to this place.

The party is over for this. No regulation, no supervision, anything goes, so-called free market, which has taken us to this place.

They've put a pittance, a few billion -- million dollars into renewable energy research so that they can go out with this mantle of 'we're for the future; we're about renewables.'

They've put a pittance, a few million dollars into renewable energy research so that they can go out with this mantle of we're for the future, we're about renewables.

The House will come to order.

The House will come to order!