John Rice Carter

I find quite offensive to our right-to-work States. I don't think the Federal Government should be imposing that upon States.

The Democratic Party last year didn't choose to give us a budget for 2011, that is why we are in this predicament right now.

Eighty-seven percent of all the U.S. construction workforce is nonunion, and I would argue that it is probably more than that in Texas.

President Obama, by Executive Order, mandated that we require now that agencies use project labor agreements (PLA) on projects that are over $25 million or above.

I'm a little confused on your question and I may be able to clarify. If you're asking the question are we attempting to defund that czar, we are.

It is basically permanent. But what we are saying is the real issue is the mercury issue and the hydrochloric acid issue, and those things have not even been discussed.

You can stop your new neighbors and ask them why they came, and they will tell you because Texas is where things are happening. It is where you have a tax structure where we can prosper in business, and yet it is a fair tax structure. You…

I believe the Governor pointed out that of the million new jobs created in America in the last 5 years, 850,000 of them were created in Texas. We are a dynamic economy; and we are a dynamic economy because we have had the foresight of all…

I'm glad you're here with me, and I hope you'll join me again because we're going to be talking about this a lot this year because it's something that matters to the American people. I encourage them to contact us if there are regulations…

The laws were written by the Congress, the legislative branch, administered and enforced by the executive branch--which is the White House--and interpreted and held to the standards of the Constitution by the judicial branch. And as the…

That comment about the no vehicles also prevents those who are in charge of enforcing our border from following the drug dealers as they take their caravans of bad product across the border and into our wilderness area, and that is a…

I want to congratulate my colleague for doing some mighty interesting research. It is good that we laid this kind of research out before this House and before the American public. One of the things that people get concerned about up here…

The ordinary laborer-- which in my day, at least, we used to call those guys roughnecks or roustabouts--$60 an hour. And the high-tech guys, the guys that can drive a drill bit down 5,000 feet under the water and another multithousands of…

In reclaiming my time, let me say right off that I am very, very proud to be part of a Congress that instantly reacts to a crisis situation. Mr. Oberstar should be commended for that reaction. That is what we are asking for the entire…

I want to tell you that my wife is Dutch, so I took a little offense at the fact that we had an offer of help of a fleet of skimmers from the Dutch. It is my understanding we gave no response. Maybe that's different. I don't know. All I…

It's time to really stop. It's getting a little old for the American public, for them to hear constantly that no matter what goes wrong in the Obama administration it's George W. Bush's fault. I think this is getting a little old and…

The stock market, this very minute, is dropping like a rock over the financial collapse of Greece and the pending failure of other Euro nations. They are bankrupt from unsustainable government spending under the same programs the Democrats…

These are serious times, and we have serious issues to deal with. Recently, I was privileged to be in a meeting with some conservative economists... if we continue the policies of the Obama administration into a second term, if he wins a…

So if I understand you, those other budgets you're talking about, those four others, there was--in those cases there was an attempt to pass a budget, but they never could reconcile. Maybe they couldn't reconcile the differences with the…

Above what they're spending now on their health insurance. Now, I don't care how big you are. That's a big chunk of money, and it would shock anybody from the biggest corporation in the world down to the little mom-and-pop to have that…

And we got to see last night all those Bush blue lines. And we did get to see the first little Obama line right there. But that's not an Obama line yet, that's just a Democratic Congress line.

The incursions into Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California are getting worse every time they occur, and it's time for us to unite and defend our borders. We need an immigration policy that works. I'm for that. I think everyone is. But…

Isn't it a fact that the kind of people that they are letting in there without any law enforcement being able to stop them are not what you would call good citizens for taking care of the wilderness nor good citizens for protecting…

If the gentleman would yield for a moment. Question: When America retains or takes public land, aren't we as a body of Americans stewards of that land for this Nation? Isn't it our job to take care of the property that the Federal…

And, in fact, I learned a lot from the explanation. One of the questions that I was always curious about and should have asked is these vehicle barriers that they kept talking about were part of the fence, and they weren't really building…