The witness has rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.

We want to have mostly successes.

the most recent encyclical says let's do everything we can to reduce pollution going into the atmosphere to avoid any further climate change.

We see pensions at an all-time high.

I want to thank you for rebuilding the markets from the recession that we were in at the end of George Bush.

I want to thank you and I want to thank the President for putting this economy back on track.

I reserve the right to object, although I don't object. I just want to thank my friend from Colorado, the authorizing committee, and the appropriators for providing some time through the end of the fiscal year. It gives the Army Corps of…

I would like to talk about some of the sustainability, energy-saving measures that the Department has undertaken with local governments, with local public housing authorities.

I thank the gentleman from Texas, and I thank my friend from Florida for speaking up on behalf of Orion. Orion is America's new spacecraft to take astronauts further into space than ever before and land our astronauts on Mars. Orion had…

Ex-Im has committed over $11 billion in total export value.

I move to strike the last word with the gentleman from Texas. The Acting CHAIR. Under the rule, the gentleman cannot strike the last word.

I thank the gentleman. I look forward to staying on top of this so that as they move forward we have sufficient funding to really propel this project forward and get our astronauts to Mars.

Clearly, from my experience, I understand--and I don't understand why, especially my friends and colleagues who are supporters of trade, this seems like a no-brainer.

And so we need to be exporting more, not less, and that is what the Ex-Im Bank does.

Floods are the number one disaster in this country.

The National Flood Insurance Program needs to be reformed.

The National Flood Insurance Program iceberg is melting.

Their government let them down. Their insurance company let them down.

Reserving the right to object, I do not object, but I do want to thank my colleague from Colorado concerning what will be a short time to continue negotiations to finish our hospital in the Denver area. As we come into this Memorial Day…

I would like to thank Mr. Lipinski for his work on this bill and for yielding me this time. I rise today to support H.R. 1158, the Department of Energy Laboratory Modernization and Technology Transfer Act. I want to thank my friend from…

So today, I came across something in Bloomberg News that as of today, there were 262,000 new jobless claims.

I don't understand why they hate those companies. That makes no sense to me.

That is the highest number of jobs unfilled and the lowest number of unemployed people since Bill Clinton was President.

I believe the EEOA will empower all levels of a business and help create a stronger working middle class.

We should applaud employee ownership from the shop floor to the boardroom.