Ed Perlmutter

I hope the bill introduced by Senator Whitehouse will be part of the energy conversation going forward.

I would remind my friend, at the height of the Iraq war we spend $141 billion, as we draw troops down to $65 billion, a savings of $76 billion a year. That is money. These things we can find other places to save where there is wasteful…

I would remind the Speaker and others that we're here on the small business lending bill, not on Mr. Chaffetz's proposal or any proposal like that. It may have merit at another time when that bill, itself, is brought forward, but we're…

I would remind my friend from West Virginia--and I do appreciate that $30 billion over 10 years--take a look at their proposition. It is for another bill for another day. We are dealing with FHA, which saves $2.5 billion today. Also, I…

So let's talk about what actually happened. Under George Bush, this economy fell off the planet, dropped 6.4 percent the last quarter of 2008. We haven't seen anything like that since 1929. During the last 9 months, all of a sudden our GDP…

The America COMPETES Act is about moving this country forward, making sure that for the next 20 years we continue to have a strong science and engineering and technological future for the country. The bill, as we said, provides all sorts…

I say to my good friend, Congressman Broun, that he has forgotten that this bill satisfies the PAYGO rules which CBO has scored at zero, so that there is not an increase, a rule that my friends on the Republican side of the aisle…

Well, responding after the hurricane hits isn't fast enough. This is about knowing these things are coming and dealing with them in advance.

We take responsibility for those things that Americans have to deal with. We don't like dealing with it. You don't like dealing with it. But we have to. So we're prepared. In our court system in America, whether it's in New York or…

I won't take the 1 minute. I'd say to my friend from California, in Colorado we were asked to take over the trial of Timothy McVeigh, who had blown up an office building in Oklahoma. He didn't do it in Colorado. But we said okay, we're…

I do not believe that, and I think that the investment banking community is all about risk.

I am proposing, one, to limit the amount of deposits a single institution can take, which right now is 10 percent.

Are the owners of Countrywide actually having a say in what he is making? I mean, if I am the owner of the company, I am going to want that in my pocket as a dividend.

How is it that an executive gets $148 million. I mean how does that pay come about.

They deserve a medical facility worthy of their service.

Now, I am equally pleased that Senator Mark Udall and Senator Michael Bennet picked up where Senators Salazar and Allard left off.

I would like to acknowledge the work of former Senator Ken Salazar on this project, he was a strong partner with me.

I applaud Secretary Shinseki and President Obama for bringing closure to this long-awaited decision to move forward with this project.

I mean, I don't think there's any question about that. And that was put in the TARP II legislation that we passed to the Senate, that's still sitting over there.

You were one of the first to raise this on the effect on local governments, whether they were hospital districts or school districts or whatever.

The bill before us will save or create more than 3 million jobs, and it will help people put food on their tables and receive health care as they try to make it through this recession. We need to fix this economy, and Democrats, with or…

Yes, the plane crash is why she is not here today. And it is a tragedy that we all feel this morning.

To my good friend from North Carolina, I have seen the House version and I have seen the Senate version, and I have highlights of the compromise. That's what I have. And so between the House version and the Senate version and the…

And I feel that we've made great strides in living up to our end of the bargain. Now, it has to have execution, but I know in Colorado, for instance, in terms of veterans' claims, there was this tremendous backlog. Because of what we did…

The greatest increase in veterans' benefits in the 77-year history of the Veterans Administration. And again, when we send men and women into harm's way, when we ask them to protect us, serve us, we have a moral contract, a moral…