Judy Biggert

We have no other Members that are here so I would just like to say, again, thanks so much to my colleagues, and particularly my family. Some have been with me these entire 14 years and some have arrived after the start of the 14 years. To…

Thank you. I yield 1 minute to Mr. Yoder. Congratulating Kansas House Speaker Michael O'Neal

I really appreciate that. Thank you. You were great as chairman, great as ranking member, and I think education is where it all starts in this most important committee. Thank you.

I also thank you for the experiences we've had working together on the Education Committee and being the Bermuda Triangle that we always laughed about, sitting on our side with Tom Osborne. We made a nice triangle to put things like…

But my children, we raised them, I think, well, and we raised them to be independent. We didn't think that they would be so independent. One lives in London with her husband and three children, one lives in Los Angeles with her husband and…

You know, I just would like to say how we have worked together, and I really appreciate all that you have done. And what's different is that you had this family. And that is the hardest thing to have, you know, the kids and a wife, but to…

I thank the gentleman. I will always think of you as the green man from Colorado. Now I would like to yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Todd Platts, who is also retiring.

And I thank you, the minority whip, so much for those comments. That really is very kind of you, and I appreciate it.

Sufficient capital, sound risk management, and prudent regulation are critical components to ensure the availability and reliability of financial products.

Regulations should first aim to do no harm.

I inadvertently voted ``no'' on rollcall 592. I would like to be recorded as voting ``aye.'' Stated against:

The number of veterans on the street in America is shameful.

I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill, as amended, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further requests for time if the gentleman is ready to close.

I think that education certainly is the most important role that we have, and that is to provide education to these kids.

But remediation at the college level simply is not working. We need different strategies there, different strategies in high schools to get them ready for college.

The transfer of knowledge from universities into the marketplace can have profound economic and societal impacts.

I thank the gentleman. Both of the Members have been great in working with this. I know that Ms. Waters has been the ranking member for the committee in the past and has always worked on the flood insurance. I yield back the balance of my…

I think we have just one more speaker. At this time, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Palazzo).

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Dold), a member of the committee.

As we've noted before, in February, Congress took action to stop a payroll tax increase on millions of working families and to ensure that the tax increase did not add to the deficit. The legislation cut $5 billion from the prevention…

At this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe).

I would just like to remind the gentleman from Connecticut that he was one of 147 Members on that side of the aisle voting for taking money out of the privatization protection for health care. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from…

Let me just take a couple of seconds to remind the gentleman from Massachusetts that we also are for prevention, but we have a whole list of appropriations, a whole list of what we do, and not to leave all of this to the discretion of one…