What I really have is a statement that I intended to introduce.

The use of race or national origin in law enforcement is only strictly prohibited when race or national origin is the sole criteria for the law enforcement action.

I think that would reflect that 81 percent of those violators are Hispanic.

The Malthusian's have always been wrong. We have always risen to all of those challenges.

I would ask unanimous consent to introduce this book, called 'Last Man Out.'

I do not want to see 537 fraudulent votes. I do not want to see one because it disenfranchises legitimate voters.

What a tremendous feat of survival and bravery that you were able to share with us.

Can you imagine that there would be that many fraudulent voter registrations in a country and not have fraudulent votes cast off of those registrations?

I think you can get a truck anywhere in America in 48 hours.

I think that we should be compelled, as a Committee, to take a very close look at how we protect producers

I remember the Presidential campaign. I remember John McCain and Barack Obama both taking the pledge that there would be no earmarks in their administration. And I want to point out that President Obama made the point specifically about…

I appreciate so much the privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives on this 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. I've watched, of course, Lincoln's life and history from the…

It triggers in my memory how much money an aircraft carrier can be built for. Bloomberg reported on Monday that if you add up the commitments that the United States has made within the last year in economic stimulus plan in one kind or…

Reclaiming my time, we would soon have Al Franken's version of fair and balanced. And before we go to the salt marsh mouse expert of California, I just want to point out that President Obama said that there would be no pet projects, and no…

I would hope they would not be San Franciscan monk mice. But I appreciate they are salt marsh mice with San Francisco leanings. And I might say also if you take a look at this mouse real closely, there has got to be an earmark right there…

However, this $30 million is an earmark in the stimulus plan, in the recovery plan. It is a direct violation of the mark laid down by the President of the United States that there wouldn't be any special projects set up by individual…

the projection, as reported this morning, is that this "porkulus" plan will create or save 3,675,000 thousand jobs. And the formula is that, this is a rule of thumb formula that's also used by the Federal Reserve, that if you spend enough…

Well, yes, I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. And I point out that according to the law, we're innocent until proven guilty. That is according to the law. We have a different set of standards here in the House. It's an ethical…

I very much thank Judge Carter for bringing up the issue of ethics in this Congress, Mr. Speaker. And it is not an easy thing to raise these issues on the floor of this House. There are pressures in this place that push a person who serves…

I very much appreciate the privilege to address you this evening on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. And I also appreciate the dialogue that takes place here on the floor. This is the most deliberative body anywhere…

One of the analyses out there is that there is, all together, about $13 trillion in U.S. capital that is stranded overseas because there is a capital gains that would be levied against it if it's brought back into the United States…

And I am happy to come here and present my version of my proposal for a solution. I would pick up on the gentleman from Ohio's statement of the deficit though in November being a minus $164 billion. I just punched the calculator and you…

I happen to remember that's the day that President Bush signed the 2003 tax cuts, and really the only reason I remember that is because it's my birthday. It was a great present.

In fact, the only Federal expenditure that compares with this bailout is if you compare it in real dollars to World War II. This is a bailout that exceeds everything, including the interstate system in the United States. World War II is…

We are definitive on the economic analysis that you have laid out. It is stark, it's clear, the lines vertical there on each one of those charts that you've showed. But what it really reflects is the sociology of human nature. When human…