I sincerely believe that the president's budget proposal is a balanced approach that includes short term incentives to spur immediate job growth, and includes long term deficit reduction.

I urge this committee to make LIHEAP a priority in its budget.

I strongly urge this committee to follow the president's lead and invest in America.

This is supposed to be the people's House, but for 428 days of Republican leadership, the American people have been stuck on the outside looking in. House Tea Party Republicans have locked millions of Americans out of this economy and…

I support H.R. 347, as amended by the Senate, which will assist the Secret Service in performing its protective duties. The bill before us today will help the Secret Service carry out its role in protecting the President, Vice President…

Senate republicans have not been shy about their goal, which is to defeat President Obama, make him a one-term President.

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.

I'm reminded of a commercial that has been in heavy rotation lately. It's a Christmas commercial, Santa Claus with a backache and a pain remedy being offered to him after he climbs down the chimney. Y'all are probably familiar with that…

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…