Hank Johnson

I would suggest, however, that we have a hearing to examine the unprecedented obstruction of the Senate republicans of the confirmation process, and how it is hurting our economic recovery, our efforts at law enforcement, and also the…

Indeed, for the Koch brothers, things go better with the Keystone pipeline.

Thank you, my friend from Georgia. What you've just said is that it's essentially a failure to act, to publish regulations or to promulgate regulations that would lead to the enactment of this CLASS Act, becomes a final agency action. In…

I kind of like the title of this, the--we are--we are looking to protect consumers from discriminatory State taxes on motor vehicle rentals.

Well done, my good and faithful servants. That must be what the Koch brothers and the corporate Tea Party backers are saying. Their Republican Party in the House has for the whole year been able to stave off any fairness by protecting…

I'm saying that the means, the manner in which this investigation is being conducted by the House of Representatives through the government Oversight Investigations Committee is scandalous.

I think this was another manufactured controversy by the second amendment NRA Republican Tea Party Movement.

But so will the massive numbers of illegal weapons that fall into the hands of wrongdoers based on the gun show loophole.

I say I'm very sorry that this nation, which should be limiting the numbers of assault weapons possessed by wrongdoers, does not do its job, and as a result 40,000-plus people are dead.

Well, it's manufactured into a scandal or into an alleged scandal when, in fact, the scandal, Anderson, has to do with the lack of federal laws, which contribute to the numbers of assault weapons that enter into the hands of Mexican drug…

I think this is another manufactured controversy by the Second Amendment, NRA, Republican, Tea Party movement.

Congress certainly has oversight authority to investigate this.

This bill will make it impossible to implement critical new regulations that will place some restraints on the excesses of the business community, and I ask that it be defeated.

There is a hole in our gun control laws that is so large that you could drive or fly a space shuttle through it.

I find that, in light of his past filibustering, entirely unacceptable.

Nobody said anything and nobody is saying anything because they want those tax cuts to become permanent while they at the same time would vote to impose a balanced budget amendment, which really would just simply lock in an unfair tax rate…

I do believe that you are 100 percent correct on that, and I want to give a shout out to those millionaires who are socially conscious. There are so many people who are afflicted and who are just eaten up with greed, and they already have…

This is a game that, certainly, many people see is being played, but I wish far more people saw and understood what is actually taking place in their House of Representatives. I believe that it's one reason we have two groups of 99ers--the…

They don't have any knowledge of how you grew up and what kind of values you were taught and what kind of family you had. They just want to condemn you because you are a Muslim. They want to make you a threat to America, a threat to our…

That's the way it is. So right now, Congressman Ellison, I feel like I have to say this because you're such a great example of a true American patriot, one who lives life in accordance with your inner ideals. We have the freedom in this…

All the while, Congressman Ellison, pitting Americans against each other, trying to stoke hatred and anger amongst the 99 percenters on any issue they can.

I don't represent him, and he doesn't represent me or the folks that predominate my district. I've got a 99er district.

It certainly will not create any jobs. There is a false perception that has been bought into wholesale, unanimously, by my Tea Party-Grover Norquist Republican friends, and that is that deregulation somehow creates jobs. Now, I know what…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of the bill the following: SEC. 12. APPLICATION WITH REGARD TO CERTAIN STATUTE. None of the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree wholeheartedly with my colleague from Texas, Chairman Smith. This legislation does, in fact, insert the Federal Government into State licensing of firearms, and it does it in a big way. It actually…