John Shimkus

Wouldn't it make sense to have one center location for storage of high-level nuclear waste?

Waxman-Markey failed as a national policy through the legislative process because the public decided to not price carbon.

You should expect to see 2008 budget numbers come for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Regulatory reform must take into account benefits and costs, both quantitative and qualitative...

Small business owners regularly find themselves subject to increasing numbers of overly burdensome regulations.

There is no better way to promote American's resurgence than providing a common-sense regulatory climate.

We can and must do better.

The reality is, we are out of money to spend.

Had they done that, we wouldn't be in this CR fight, but that did not happen.

We don't care which administration created all these burdensome regulations. If they do not protect public health and harm job creation, we want to review them. I don't see what's the big damage of that, and every time you hear the word…

My friends on the Democrat side are supporting this bill based on 10 pages of the legislation: immediate access to insurance for the uninsured, an extension of dependent coverage, no lifetime or annual caps. Ten pages. This health care law…

There is one question. The question is: Where are the jobs? We are at 9.5 percent unemployment and nearly 15 million people out of work. Since President Obama has been elected, we've spent over $6.1 trillion in just these 18 months. Why…

The people of Louisiana have suffered a lot of catastrophes: the BP explosion, fishing industry's down, the tourism industry is down. Now, to add insult to injury, we have the moratorium which is costing thousands of jobs in Louisiana…

It is really a great credit, and it does merit taking the time to think back on those folks who pushed for this, in a bipartisan resolution and through both Chambers, in order to get the bill signed into law.

As a 20-year Army veteran, 5 years of active infantry and Airborne Ranger--I don't wear it on my sleeve--I support Ranking Member McKeon and Chairman Skelton. This is devastating to the warfighters and to the combat infantrymen.

And you have it up there too. I'm going to end with this: uncertainty, because uncertainty creates a disincentive for people to assume risk. And if they're going to assume risk, that's where bailouts are a failed economic policy because…

If the gentleman would yield, in small town rural America, a big company has 25 employees, maybe 40 employees. I mean, they are the massive job creators of rural America. And I know the Department of Commerce has their categories of what…

Right. And as we follow the now health care law, it's hard for some of us to really--I mean, the reality is that the people who are going to have the most difficulty are the small businesses in complying. And, again, when you talked about…

I am joined with some high school students from North City, Illinois, which is a small rural community. The thing that is worrying them and they are focusing on is, where are the jobs going to be? And I always come back to over this last…

The true response to that is that 55 nuns signed that letter, 10,000 nuns have come out against this position by those 55.

The number one responsibility of the Federal Government is the protection of our citizens. We do that by having a standing military. We have learned that the importance of having a professional military force is critical. Thomas Jefferson…

The Hippocratic oath is well known for the phrase, ``First do no harm.'' Unfortunately, we have continued to come down on this floor and ask a simple question. Where are the jobs? What business and industry needs is some certainty. What…

We actually had C-SPAN covering it. We had amendments offered by both sides. We had votes. We had discussions on the conference committee. On this stimulus bill, there is none. It's going to be cut in the back rooms by 10 Members. There's…

The other caveat I have is that we are already sending money to first-line responders based upon the promise of selling the spectrum. So we are already trying to move to help the first-line responders. But if we delay, the cost-benefit…

And part of that alternative fuel debate is coal-to-liquid technologies. And this is not just keeping energy costs down. This is a job. This is a job issue.