Madam Speaker, I thank the leader for yielding. You know, one of the untold stories of the House of Representatives is the connections that Members have with one another that really never show up, except among ourselves. I had a unique…

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding. The State of Washington is cutting the working health care for the working poor? That's what we heard a minute ago. But wasn't it just an argument just a couple of months ago, Mr. Chair, that…

Reclaiming my time, clearly it's not deficit neutral. Clearly, it does add to the deficit, which is why I said that it's not completely satisfactory. So Mr. Ryan, as ranking member and incoming chairman of the Budget Committee, has…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. A couple of months ago I'm walking through a manufacturing facility in the western suburbs of Chicago with the entrepreneur that started it. This is a guy who about 45 years ago is living on the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. If you're Peyton Manning, the football great for the Indianapolis Colts, and you come to the line of scrimmage, you have the right to do an audible call at the line of scrimmage. I mean, Peyton's a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in his opening remarks, the chairman said that there was no excuse to vote ``no'' on this bill. Well, I want us to revisit that assertion because I think there might be. I think the excuse…

I thank the gentleman. You know, if you were going to sit around and come up with a movie script of absurdity, you couldn't come up with a script that was this real. In other words, taxpayers out subsidizing first class passenger travel on…

Mr. Speaker, on display in Jerusalem at the Yad Vashem museum, the Holocaust museum, amidst all the pain and suffering and murder and turmoil, are German schoolbooks from the 1930s that display an attitude that was getting pumped into…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. History is incredibly instructive and helpful for us at a time like this. August 13, 1961, Nikita Khrushchev gave an order and that was to move forward and put up the Berlin Wall. At first, it was just…

I thank Mr. Camp for yielding. Chairman Levin said a minute ago that it's hard to find anything that the minority likes. I'll tell you a few things, Mr. Speaker, that we would like. We would have liked a stimulus that worked. We would have…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, you know, I came here to the floor a couple of minutes ago, and I thought, ``Surely, I am not going to hear and see the tired, old, symbolic show pony of George W. Bush and his…