Whatever happened to debarment? I mean, don't we have any kind of teeth with that? I mean, what happened to the good old days----

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 22, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Senate Amendment to H.R. 3630, the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011. Unfortunately, this isn't the legislation we will be voting on today. The Majority has decided to side-step…

Mr. Speaker, I don't know what's the matter with us when we don't learn from history. After the Great Depression, we passed the Social Security Act. Two major components: One is to keep our seniors safe in their years of retirement, and…

Mr. Chair, it is sad for our country that today the U.S. House is voting on H.R. 3094, yet another bill to roll back workers' rights. Today's bill does nothing for the number one issue on people's minds in Hawaii and around the country…

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall Nos. 854, 855, and 856, had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on all the above. personal explanation

Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 358, a bill restricting women's access to reproductive health services. It's odd to me that we are choosing to take up this bill now, when just last week, we saw that our country only…

Increasing our national capacity to invest in infrastructure is what our country needs right now.

The proposal we are examining today was laid out by President Obama in his American Jobs Act.

If we really cared about fair elections and fair efforts at organizing, then I think that there should be something in this bill that allows for the organizers to have access to the employee.

I should think that we would want to put that kind of provision--it is still, if we really want to be fair about things.