This has been a long process writing this bill. I've been honored as a new member of Congress to be at the table along the way scoring some wins and some losses with regard to the final product and where I would like to see it overall. I…

I have here a letter which I will quote, in part, and then submit from a number of environmental groups under the auspices of the Campaign for Environmental Literacy, a group that I have also had the opportunity to work with on education…

Again, I would like to emphasize that the gentleman from California's criticisms are not about this rule or any rule that we have before us. Tomorrow the Rules Committee will be meeting to decide under what rule we will consider health…

There will be, and I certainly look forward to joining my colleague from Florida, a debate this weekend on the health care bill. I am glad to see, on issues of our national parks and oceans, we are able to come together. And there are…

In listening to this debate back and forth, I can't help but be struck by the fact that many of the arguments from the other side of the aisle are simply not arguments against this health care bill. I have heard people rail against a…

Mr. Speaker, this Nation does face a very real and immediate terrorist threat. The terrorist threat stems from al Qaeda, which is a stateless menace, a menace that is not rooted in any one location or has any dominion in any one particular…

For more than 200 years, Congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court have recognized certain legal rights and protections for America's indigenous people. It's the moral and legal responsibility of Congress to reaffirm a…

Thank you, Chairman Gordon. Madam Chair, I rise today in support of the Polis amendment to H.R. 4061, the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009. We enjoyed working very closely with Chairman Gordon, his staff, Representative Lipinski; and…

Once again, I want to reiterate that this bill does not cost $50 million, does not cost $40 million, does not cost $30 million, and does not cost one penny. It's simply an authorization. And as my colleague knows in the scene he has gone…

I find little objectionable in what my colleague from California said. Certainly there is great opportunity for trade with South Korea and Panama and Colombia to create jobs, but none of those agreements are the topic of the rule before us…

In the last Congress, with the last administration, President Bush came to Congress during the financial meltdown, along with Secretary Paulson, and asked for hundreds of billions of dollars. They said they were going to use it to buy bad…

The gentleman mentioned health care, cap-and-trade, and card check are strangling the country. Fortunately, none of those are included in this rule. I hope my colleague will join me in support of this rule which simply brings to the floor…

First of all, I take some degree of offense coming from Colorado if people were to call our wilderness area kind of denigrated as mountain-front property. It so happens that our State is a mountainous State so property happens to be…

Well, okay. At that point the Congress said, well, not one dollar of that TARP money has gone to buying bad debt. Instead, the Bush administration started nationalizing companies left and right. They bought up banks. They are now owned by…

Promoting green energy jobs and strengthening Colorado's competitiveness both in the U.S. And internationally has been a major focus of your administration.

Your appointment recognizes Colorado's major education reforms that you and Lieutenant Governor O'Brien have initiated since taking office in 2007.

the real cost of that cheap pork chop is something very great indeed.

my consumers would be thrilled to pay a few pennies more for their food knowing that it comes--and they voted with their dollars already

Thank you, Madam Chair.

The question is that you mentioned that you are worried that livestock producers will be left with few, if any, medicines to prevent and control animal disease.

we find, quite to the contrary, that those of us who represent--and I represent a consuming district--my consumers would be thrilled to pay a few pennies more for their food

There are no farmers in my family. I am not from Iowa. My family, since arriving from Eastern European shuttles around the year 1900, has been city dwellers and occasionally suburban dwellers.

I think that this bill furthers that end, and that is why I am proud to be a cosponsor and also applaud Chairwoman Slaughter for holding this important hearing today.

I strongly support H.R. 1549, and I look forward to hearing the testimony today.

I believe the bulk of evidence, scientific consensus, does show that at least a large and significant part of antibiotic resistant bacteria that affects humans does stem from overuse of antibiotics in animals.