But that's not what we're doing. Just today we had a hearing on the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee's bill, the CLEAR Act, to regulate offshore drilling, onshore drilling, all drilling, all energy production here in this…

It's going to kill those jobs. And Secretary Salazar defended his decision. The interesting thing--Mr. Akin, you're an engineer--Secretary Salazar pulled together a panel of experts to look at this problem and to make recommendations. And…

In fact, it's my understanding that we've nationalized more of our private economy in our country just since the Obama administration took over from the Bush administration--we've nationalized more of our private economy under this…

Saul Alinsky in his book ``Rules for Radicals''--and I am reading the book to try to garner some information about the battle plan of the progressives. There's another word for progressives in my opinion; it's socialists, Marxists. You can…

Well, thank you. I appreciate you yielding back. We have got about 2 more minutes left. I just wanted to add something to what you just said about being enslaved. My good friend Star Parker who, by the way, is running for Congress in…

I voted against that because I wasn't in favor of bailing out the incompetent Wall Street bankers for their malfeasance. I want to bail out Main Street, small businessmen and -women. I want to bail out the small community banks by getting…

Well, Lucifer rebelled against our creator, God, and was thrown out of heaven. And we're trying to fight all of those spiritual wars today because of that. But the thing is, what the progressives or radicals or socialists--whatever you…

In fact, he dedicated the book ``Rules for Radicals'' to the first great radical, Lucifer.

The folks watching on C-SPAN tonight, Mr. Akin, may wonder if Congressional Research Service is some far-out right-wing group that might be trying to hammer the Democrats and trying to castigate them in a negative light. But that's not so…

The American people get it, though. The administration doesn't. That's the problem. In fact, whether it's the oil spill and the disaster that's going on there and their disastrous response to that or forcing ObamaCare through against the…

We recently--in fact, just in the last day--sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service to ask them to give a special exemption for taxes on the money of all the people who are being harmed economically by this disastrous oil spill. They…

Congress received a surprise Saturday night. Late in the evening, President Obama sent a letter to Republicans and Democrats requesting an additional $50 billion in emergency stimulus funds. After justifying his new spending request…

In Genesis, chapter 12, verses 1 through 3, God tells Abraham that he will bless the nation that blesses his people, and curse the nation who curses his people. God says in that verse, starting at verse 1, The Lord had said to Abraham…

Not only does excessive taxation kill the ability to do all the research and development that you were just talking about, but small business can't even buy inventory. So they can't sell their goods to consumers. The consumers don't have…

Over 5 million. Five and a half million, to be exact, jobs that health care taxes. And what it's going to do, is it's going to mean that a small business man or woman who is trying to just make a living, they are not going to be able to…

During the Depression, though, as you just said, there was a lot of spending on infrastructure during that period of time. It did not take care of the unemployment. If you look at the unemployment rate during the Great Depression, it…

Mr. Akin, I am a pilot, and I want to say that you are exactly right about getting out of a death spiral. So we do push the yoke forward to stop the spin, to stop the stall, to get the airplane flying again. And that's exactly what needs…

Helping poverty is a very simple formula. It's a good-paying job and the education to fill that job. We've got to create those good-paying jobs, and the way we do that is in the private sector by reducing taxes on small business men and…

I'll tell you what. I hope the American people paid attention to your explanation because it has been Democrats all along who have fought any reform of Freddie and Fannie. Freddie and Fannie are right in the middle of the cause of the…

And I want to remind the gentleman that during our debate over ObamaCare we were accused as Republicans of being the party of no. We are the party of k-n-o-w. We know how to solve this economic downturn. We know how to create jobs. We know…

I call it ``tax-and-trade'' because it is about revenue. The President himself said it was about raising more revenue for the Federal Government. It's not about the environment at all. In fact, a lot of what the President has said, he has…

Most American people know--not all, and it's unfortunate. Most American people know that socialism never has worked and never will work, but this is socialistic, this type of philosophy of bigger government, of central control from…

Well, there's a bull that's in that china shop that's not indicated in this cartoon, and that's the abject failure, non-stimulus bill, as I call it, which has been an abject failure. The non-stimulus bill has been an abject failure, and…

That's right. They can't afford their mortgage payment now, or some are just barely paying those things. And then the energy tax on their electricity when they flip on the light switch, or when their heating unit comes on, up North…

I didn't buy the Democratic Treasury Secretary under a Republican President because that's exactly what Hank Paulson is. He's a Wall Street insider, a Wall Street banker. Wall Street believes in big government. That's the reason they…