I come down tonight to put into the Record the names of some freedom fighters who have been jailed, not only politicians, but also members of the news media, after the stolen elections in Minsk, Belarus, of two nights ago. The opponents of…

Our committee can do great work when we work together. This is not one of our finest times--a new mandatory entitlement program at $7.2 billion. There is $130 million in the fund right now. The President asked for $150 million. This is, on…

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…

I come in support of H.R. 4692, the National Manufacturing Strategy Act. I was pleased to support, actually, my two great colleagues from Illinois, Mr. Lipinski and Mr. Rush. I appreciate them bringing it down to the floor. Basically, I…

I would remind my colleague that wind and solar power is high-cost power. Wind and solar costs on average three times more per kilowatt hour. That's the whole energy debate. That's why you have to have low energy prices if you want jobs…

I have a few things to remind him too. We passed a $1.2 trillion stimulus bill that was promised to reduce unemployment to 8 percent. Our unemployment is at 9.5 percent. We have 15 million unemployed Americans. Our issue is let's do things…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Well, we forget it, and we drive them out. You look at what we have done with the bailout of Wall Street. What we actually did was we established a premise of too big to fail, and then we bailed out the huge, powerful, big Wall Street…

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…

Dear Congressman, I'd like to thank you for cosponsoring H.R. 2743, the Automobile Dealers Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009, and H.R. 3179, the Financial Services and Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010. The H.R. 3288…

President Obama stated on February 7, 2010, ``If we can start bending the cost curve on health care, that's the most important thing we can do to deal with the deficits long term.'' Well, we always agreed that he was bending the cost…

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

I want to thank my colleagues for bringing down this resolution. Long-term care is very, very important, as are the physicians involved in taking care of our seniors. The primary payer of long-term care is Medicaid. And regarding the…

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…

I come to the floor today joining with my friend and colleague, Congressman Lacy Clay, to speak out on an issue that is very important to both of us and our constituents, the continued existence of an over-the-air classical music station…

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…

let's talk about being put over a barrel of oil. In 2001, a barrel cost $23. When this majority came in, it was at $58, and now it is over $136. The trend line is bad. I don't understand why we want to limit our ability to explore all the…

And what I like about this debate is what we're talking about is we want American-made energy. And when you have American-made energy, you have American jobs. And when you have American jobs, you have American taxpayers. And when you have…