ADAM PUTNAM: “I thank the Speaker, and I would inform my friend from Florida that I have no further speakers and we prepared to close…”

There are no excuses and no escapegoats left.

You will see a stifling new increase of taxes, both on families and on small businesses. And there will be no one at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue with a veto stamp that is Obama, Pelosi and Reid. And all that that entails.

We appreciate that. Obviously, the Wildlife Grant Fund is something that is a formula-driven process and was an imperfect vehicle, but we certainly wanted to take this opportunity to make the important case for doing everything we can to…

There is no more important issue for this Congress than the issue of resolving the situation in Iraq moving forward together, leaving politics at the water's edge.