Bill Posey

I also want to thank Congressman Posey for his leadership in our State.

The autopsy has, frankly, shown that it was not the insurers that caused the problems for AIG as a holding company.

I believe Mr. Morrison hit the nail on the head when he said the solution is more about accountability than it is new regulation.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 415, nays 0, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 712] YEAS--415 Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander…

I support fiduciary standards, but they must be clear, they must be unambiguous, and they must not be conflicting.

Clearly, Madoff was not empowered by a lack of loss. He was empowered by a lack of enforcement.

I wish we would, as the gentleman from Texas said, quit trying to play ``Pin the Tail on the Donkey.'' We know corporations don't pay taxes. Consumers pay taxes; corporations just collect it.

Congressman Webster and I were walking past the rear of the Chamber, and we looked at each other kind of funny after some former comments and thought we were walking by a set for comedy hour. I mean, I think I really heard somebody allude…

Our nation is critically near the tipping point of ceding our leadership in space exploration for generations to come.

Without a clear vision and a robust investment in our human space flight program, the community will quickly atrophy, as the engineers and their expertise are lost to other pursuits and possibly even other countries.

I urge you to preserve NASA's core mission, which is human space flight.

The time to refocus NASA on its primary human space flight mission is now.

I was listening to your explanation of this abhorrent and out of control administrative rules process, where people who are not elected and are not accountable make up the rules as they go along however they may want them to. We have had a…

I used to explain to people that in Florida, where I first got interested in the administrative rule process, all the laws on the books passed by their elected State officials were in four law books this big. They were shocked by that…

I thought the across-the-board cuts were not supposed to apply to national security. I thought we were going to make cuts like the folks back home make cuts. If a family back home gives an across-the-board 5 percent cut and they apply it…

We are trying to respect the taxpayers, too, obviously, and that is who gets left out of the equation, usually.

I am pleased to rise today in support of legislation I introduced earlier this year (H.R. 5446) to name the U.S. Post Office in Cocoa, Florida in honor of Harry T. and Harriette Moore. Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore served as…

I haven't looked at the evidence. It's not up to me to look at the evidence. I can't swear on a stack of bibles whether he is or isn't.

Certainly no one in this Chamber wants to yield the military high ground to countries that are not friendly to us, and without the passage of this legislation, unfortunately, we will do that. The legislation before us asks NASA to do too…

This clearly highlights the immense importance of pest interdiction.

Finally, I want to recognize my Congressman Bill Posey for his service on behalf of my neighbors in the Indian River citrus region.

I rise also to honor the surfing achievements of Kelly Slater. He is the dominant world champion of surfing. Last month, he became the Rip Curl Pro Bell Champion for the fourth time, adding to the 42 international championships he has won…

I applaud the sponsors, cosponsors, and everyone in the body who is taking the time to support the heroes that we're discussing today. I would also like to take this opportunity to remind the body... that we must keep the TRICARE promised…

I think that there's unanimous will on both sides of this Chamber to take care of the uninsurable people because of preexisting conditions right now, but this side is willing to address that on stand-alone legislation, or it would have…

I am a little bit tired of hearing ``we inherited.'' ... The party that has controlled Congress since January 2007 has been the Democratic Party.