I am pleased to introduce the Public Officials Accountability Act, to ensure that our elected leaders cannot use their office for their own personal benefit. Public corruption has turned the ``Land of Honest Abe'' into the ``Land of…

If I go to South Carolina I will have the ability to participate in a continental economy and use all of the efficiency advantages the founding fathers gave.

I would worry that if we lock in this sue any company if they even think about leaving a heavily unionized State, then any new investment will not want to come to Illinois.

I am worried that this hearing sort of represents this idea, very prominent in Washington and almost nowhere else, that we are going to sue our way into prosperity.

more than 2 months ago, a popular uprising in Egypt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power after 30 years in office. The Egyptian military is now charged with reforming that country's political system in preparation for parliamentary and…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I think that much of the healthcare bill will be wiped out and IPAB with it.

I would actually argue it probably will kill a lot of medical innovation.

I think IPAB's future depends on the presidential election.

one of my biggest priorities since I entered the Congress has been the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC)

The unhighlighted areas are where regular gasoline is sold. The highlighted areas are where these little gasoline monopolies, by Federal regulation, have been created. What happens if another hurricane hits the gulf? If this area was…

I note that under the Blunt legislation, we would correct a growing problem in the United States with gas prices. Right now, for example, in the Chicagoland area, gas prices total about $4.14 a gallon. I am sure in Missouri it is probably…

This map shows that by Federal regulation the Federal Government has divided the national gasoline market into 17 separate submarkets. These 17 submarkets all have their unique recipe of gasoline. By Federal regulation, one cannot use…

last week in Chicago, we announced tax freedom day--the day that marks the time when Illinois residents have paid their Federal and State tax burdens. The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that determines tax freedom day, found…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak out of turn as in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Kirk are printed in today's Record under ``Morning…

I appreciate that and will look forward to your feedback as those programs and many others are implemented in the months and years ahead.

I encourage you to continue working closely with other U.S. Government agencies.

I believe USAID should be focused on results and I hope that's the direction you're taking the agency.

I didn't ask about Afghanistan.

So it could be another year.

I want to emphasize that the Congress should be doing everything it can to back up leaders who want to see these agencies better cooperate.

So, wait a minute. So, after promising me that you would roll it out as of May 16, 2010, you're now promising to re-roll it out a year later?

I, too, share your concerns about the implications of the Department's April 8 decision on the brigade combat teams in Europe.

My worry is that because of international pressure or something we might worry about putting something there, which would render this entire investment useless.

It increasingly looks like we're not. And with the cash flow problems of the Japanese Government, I would have a pretty dim view of how this thing is going to go.