Madam Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart to remember Cecelia Steinberg, a woman who spent her extraordinary life as a dedicated mother and grandmother, loving wife and life partner, and selfless activist for her community…

Thank you, Chairman Pallone, for your consideration. Thank you to the Energy and Commerce Committee--Mr. Waxman and Mr. Gingrey--for granting us this time to honor Dr. Robert M. Campbell. Thank you to all of the Members. In the last few…

Over 95 percent of Republicans voted against it. So we could continue to move in the direction in which we have been going--job creation, spurring the economy, investing in America--or we could backslide toward the Bush era and go back to…

Thank you. And I look forward, as we go into the August recess, talking with our constituents about how we've begun to turn this economy around. I want to close out the last couple of seconds with the focus on tax cuts, remind people that…

Madam Speaker, Democrats are committed to growing our economy and getting Americans back to work. We want to continue to support America's manufacturing workers by closing tax loopholes that outsource U.S. jobs overseas. These savings will…

Mr. Tonko, I want to bring us back to the choice, to the choice of going in the direction that we have been taking the country, which is a new direction to reinvest in America, to make sure that we can create jobs here and not give tax…

One of the things that is important to note, Mr. Ryan, is that, when we became the majority once again in 2006 and over the last several years, we reestablished statutory PAYGO. First, we established it in rule. Then we passed it in…

Let's take it one step further. It's not just bad enough, okay, to say they voted to protect the tax break. On top of that, 95 percent of House Republicans have signed a pledge to protect those tax breaks, signed a pledge, put their name…

I know it's painful, but I think it's instructive. As you walk with me down memory lane, let's look at under which Presidents we operated on a deficit and under which Presidents we operated at a surplus. President Reagan, $1.4 trillion…

Absolutely. Thank you very much, Mr. Tonko. Just to veer a little bit in a different direction towards, again, the choice that Americans are going to be facing, because your facts are stubborn things. You can run away from a lot of…

And your point is very well taken. We had to use a procedural motion just to be able to get around there being an obstacle to the America COMPETES Act coming to the floor and being able to get a straight-up vote. And when it came right…