I think this recent civilian trial of the person formerly who was in Guantanamo Bay, who was tried in New York City, I believe, who was found not guilty of about 250 counts of murder-- although that's about how many people were killed in…

I am particularly appalled that we did nothing in the last year, when the Green Revolution started, when the fraudulent election took place, Ahmadinejad was reelected as President. There was rampant fraud throughout the country. It was…

I thank the gentleman, Representative Trent Franks from Arizona, and I thank Steve King for making some good points about Iran and the mistakes made by this administration in canceling the third site. And I was with the group that went and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me point out that, to its credit, The Wall Street Journal did not accept the offer to disseminate these WikiLeaks latest round of documents from the diplomatic arena, and I think that that is to…

The energy insurance market has limited financial capacity for pollution. What protection it can offer, sees many terms and conditions contained in the language of the policies issued. These limitations can range from whether a policy…

I thank the gentleman from Washington. There are many things about having more safety and environmental protection in the gulf that we can all agree on. Unfortunately, this bill goes way beyond those agreement type of provisions. There is…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, updating the supplemental guidelines on ethics every 3 years will help the Department of the Interior keep current with new issues as they arise and will focus the government…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, Republicans have no problem with this amendment. The fact that the bill will force small companies to now band together simply to meet threshold requirement activities in the…

The trouble is, this is not working so great for the Department of Defense, and to take it to all the other departments of government is not a good idea. We were promised that we would have a cost analysis that the validity of analysis and…

Over a month has gone by since the April 15 deadline for Congress to pass its annual budget resolution. House Democrats, though, haven't even bothered to offer up a proposal. But without a budget resolution, it is still clear Democrats…

These are vital facts to have. It really is a lot more expensive. And it is going to raise taxes and throw people out of the insurance they have now than what the administration was claiming. So if we had known this maybe it wouldn't have…

This report has shown that this is going to be a lot more expensive, that it's going to raise taxes, that it's going to raise health insurance premiums, that it's going to make people drop out of the existing coverage they have. They will…

Let me highlight several sweetheart deals in the health care legislation that I think are a real problem to me, many of my colleagues, and many Americans. We have the Rocky Top Vote Swap. Tennessee is quite familiar with the runaway costs…

I too rise in support of House Resolution 925, which seeks recognition for aviators who, as a result of hostile action or other causes, were forced to escape and evade their potential captors. Every military aviator who begins a combat…

Once again, I commend our fighting forces for their service to this country and to the cause of freedom. The freedom they worked and fought for is embodied in the constitutional system we enjoy in this country. Few votes that we have taken…

Republicans believe that we can have health reform, and we should, without a government takeover of one-sixth of our Nation's economy. Republicans introduced over 70 bills that offer free market solutions to health care reform, and one of…

Reclaiming my time, let me also conclude by saying that there is another problem with the health care bill that we will be looking at in a few hours tomorrow afternoon on abortion. Abortion funding will be required of the taxpayers in our…

Let me just continue where I left off a few moments ago talking about this huge bill tomorrow that affects our Nation's freedom so much on health care, and let me just point out that our side of the aisle, the Republicans, have introduced…

I had the great privilege of standing on Iwo Jima a year ago... There is a wonderful memorial there right now. It's very touching and very moving for all the reasons that Representative Braley has highlighted.

Once again, I commend the National Guard for their service to this country and to the cause of freedom. The freedom they work and fight for is embodied in the constitutional system that we enjoy in this country. Few votes we have taken in…

In just a moment. And we should have gone farther. We did not do that. We only went halfway. So it's still undefined who has final control over imposing all the regulations. And I have veterans in my district, a hundred thousand of them…

Let me say in response to the gentleman from New Jersey that it was a good step we took with the Ike Skelton bill today. It solved half the problem. We still have a remaining problem, and that is that it's not clear, like it should be, who…

The service performed by Cold War veterans is indeed honorable and meritorious. We should encourage the people of the United States to participate in activities to honor these brave men and women in uniform. We must give them the…

I would like to say that I take exception to the suggestion that this process has been conducted in an open way. We have 3,800 pages of materials right here that we have been given in the last 3 days. Who on earth is able to go through…

There are some important, vital, and principled reasons why those of us on this side of the aisle will be opposing the health care plan should it come to a vote tomorrow. And just briefly let me recap these. It raises taxes by $570 billion…