I thank my friend from Colorado. I would invite my friend from Texas to come to Aurora, Colorado, where we've actually, with the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, had tremendous successes. This country was on its back financially 2 years…

I've had an opportunity to listen to two of my friends on the Republican side of the aisle. I just need to remind them, when you take a voluntary pay cut, when you subsidize and give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, when you…

Which are two wars, and all of a sudden the breadwinner has a heart attack. And that's what happened in the fall of 2008 when we had the financial crash. So no income or lower income and lots of hospital bills. And those hospital bills…

Here we are finally making some real progress on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and we know that you have to have the whole menu of ways to power this country. It's oil and gas; it's going to be carbon-based fuels; it's going to…

So I just say to my friend from California, just going back to my analogy, or my metaphor, of voluntary pay cut and then all of a sudden you're building two houses after you just took a voluntary pay cut, being the two wars, but the good…

Well, your point, to my friend from California, is that manufacturing matters and having jobs in America matters, that, you know, if we make it in America, we will make it in America. Our focus should be on providing good jobs here with…

And to that point, the financial heart attack that this country suffered and the world suffered, now the country starts to get back on its feet. Under Barack Obama, on March 9 of 2009, 2 years ago, the President had been in office for 1…

Just so we don't forget where we were, Colorado in August of 2008 had about a 4, 4rac{1}{2} percent unemployment rate. We had a crash the likes of which we haven't seen in decades in September, October, November of 2008 on the financial…

Reclaiming my time, I would say resources have now been added, and they're performing their duties, and the stock market has doubled so that the people in Colorado, the moms and pops of Middle America, finally see their pensions growing…

Mr. Speaker, I come after a couple of members of the Financial Services Committee with whom I like to work and I admire; but I've got to say, what's being proposed here today is that America forget what happened on Wall Street 2 years ago…

The regulations are important, especially in an arena where huge amounts of money are being transferred. Billions of dollars were stolen from Americans. We have regulations in place. We need those regulations enforced. And if the…

We are here today to again debate the repeal of the health care legislation passed last year. Democrats provided in that bill various freedoms: Freedom from discrimination for preexisting conditions, freedom from cancellation because you…

I am having a hard time processing what actually occurred last Saturday to her and to those other people. Our prayers obviously are with her, with the families of those who were murdered, and for the swift recovery of everybody who was…

This woman was conducting something so essential to the fabric of our democracy. And to the grocery stores, the coffee shops, and the flea markets, those that provide these venues where people feel comfortable to come and express their…

Well, I'd say to my friend from North Carolina that he was talking about the fact that seniors will see this doughnut hole, their prescription drug prices go back up, the costs go back up; but even, I think, more worrisome than that is the…

I hope that we can and we will work with the Republican majority on a lot of issues to get people back to work in America, to stop outsourcing jobs to other countries, to stop importing oil at tremendous price to this country so that money…

No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.

I first want to extend the sympathies of Colorado and of the Representatives to our friends from Nebraska. We suffered the Columbine tragedy a number of years ago, so we definitely understand how painful something like this is. Mr…

Well, they're taking away freedoms. They're taking away the freedom from discrimination for prior illnesses, like my daughter with epilepsy, like the daughter who had Crohn's disease, or the friend at the gas station. It's taking away the…

Today we have the opportunity to provide tax cuts for 98 percent of all Americans--on earnings up to $250,000. But as you just heard and as you are going to hear throughout the day, the Republicans don't want to have that tax cut for 98…

I would just say to my friend from Iowa that the settlement now applies to all African American farmers who were discriminated against, not just those that filed their claim by 1997, and as a consequence, it's a much broader class that is…

I guess I have a completely opposite view of my friend from North Carolina as to the importance of this bill. The payment for wrongs against thousands and thousands and thousands of people that were delayed under Republican Congresses…

I would remind the body that we're here to discuss Cobell v. Salazar, Pigford v. Glickman, plus the settlement of a number of water right cases. But even having said that, I would like to respond to my friend from North Carolina that not…

I first want to commend Chairman Olver and Ranking Member Latham and the other members of the subcommittee for putting forth a good bill which makes wise investments in our Nation's transportation systems, our housing industry, and our…

I thank the gentleman from California. And really we've got to kind of not forget what we've come through, because the better days are ahead. But you can't forget where you came from. And over the course of 2007 through 2008, at the end of…