There are 11,000 vouchers sitting there unused today. There are 19,000 that have been issued. The gentleman knows that we are not cutting those. There are 11,000 still available under this bill. And we are going to review this as we go…

I want to thank my colleague, Mr. Loebsack from Iowa, for joining me in this resolution and his lead cosponsorship on this. The Medal of Honor, like the gentleman just referred to, has quite a history with Iowa in that back on December 9…

I think it is important to understand and remember how we got here. When the Senate passed their bill on Christmas Eve of 2009, there was not a soul on either side of the aisle in the House of Representatives who thought that that turkey…

I rise today to join my colleagues in offering my prayers and condolences to the victims of Saturday's senseless violence in Tucson. To the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives or were injured, know that every Member of…

I rise in support of the DeFazio amendment for two reasons: First, with the stresses on the Highway Trust Fund and the dependence of our States on the moneys from that fund, we're violating our fiduciary responsibilities by granting…

I appreciate the gentleman's concern for spending. I just wanted to see if we could just step back for a second. We're going to have a $1.47 trillion deficit this year. Forty-three cents on every dollar that we're spending is borrowed…

We spend a lot of time talking about jobs in this place. Some people say they're creating jobs; others say they're not. A lot of people are wandering around saying, where are the jobs. But at the end of the day, what is immutable, or what…

I just want to tell the gentleman--and I don't want to get into a partisan fight here, but there was not one person on the other side of the aisle who voted to double infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill, spend half as much money…

Mr. Chairman, I am going to be very brief as Mr. Olver has told us an awful lot about H.R. 5850, the fiscal year 2011 Transportation and Housing, or THUD, bill. I just want to say, on a personal level, thank you to Chairman Olver for his…

I would hope that since we've done very well in accepting these amendments this would be one that the chairman would accept also. I know how supportive he is of this. But I really would hope that we could find some consensus and common…

I certainly rise in support of the amendment. It is a disaster that happened, and like the gentleman from Iowa said, just to watch that dam collapse and all the damage that went through afterwards was devastating to so many folks. And so I…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Actually, I do oppose this. I agree with the idea of putting more money into where you would like to have the money go. My concern is that this is taking money out of reverse mortgages for seniors, and…