Dan Quayle

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I was listening to his comments about talking with his constituents back home and about how many doctors are not seeing Medicare patients, not seeing new Medicare patients, or are not seeing the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 3606, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. This bill will do just that, jump-start our small businesses by removing costly, outdated compliance requirements so…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I really want to thank him for his leadership on this issue and for working with me to put in similar provisions within the Homeland Security Reauthorization, which we hope will come to the floor in…

In just this past year approximately 79,000 pages of regulations were printed in the Federal Register. The cost to comply with our regulatory enterprise exceeds $1 trillion per year. Now this past August, the Department of Labor issued its…

A couple of weeks ago, the President was in Florida and announced new tourism initiatives with a particular focus on increasing visits to U.S. natural treasures. Unfortunately, once again, his rhetoric doesn't match his actions. For…

On rollcall No. 39, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

It has been more than 1 year since the tragic death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed using weapons that were purposely walked to deadly drug cartels in Mexico as part of Operation Fast and Furious. Since Agent…

I thank the gentleman, my good friend from Colorado, for yielding. Back home in Phoenix, Arizona, in my home district, one of the big things that we worry about is the cost of gasoline. I went to the pump the other day and it was about…

It's not too often that a President of the United States has the opportunity with one swipe of his pen to increase private sector jobs by thousands of employees, while at the same time increasing our energy independence and our energy…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of the rule and the conference report of the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA includes a long-term reauthorization of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small…

1 year ago today, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry lost his life doing what he had done his entire life: serving his country. A native of Detroit, Brian Terry served with distinction in the U.S. Marine Corps and then as a police…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 10 because greater congressional scrutiny of major regulations ensures that the Federal Government is more accountable to the American people. Poll…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 364, which will name HVC-215 after Gabe Zimmerman. January 8, 2011, was a dark day in our country's history. Six of our citizens lost their…

I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina. Mr. McHENRY. Madam Chair, I want to thank my colleague from Arizona (Mr. Quayle) for offering this amendment. It's a very sharp amendment, a very thoughtful approach to securities law, a very…

I want to thank my friend and colleague from North Carolina for bringing this bill to the floor, and I want to thank our friends on the other side of the aisle for working on this important bill as well. Madam Chair, this is a commonsense…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, line 16, insert before the semicolon the following: ``, as such amount is adjusted by the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 1904, a bill authored by my good friend and fellow Arizonan, Congressman Gosar, that will create thousands of jobs in Arizona. I want to commend…

I want to thank the chair for his excellent leadership in this because it's taken 5 years too long, but finally the House will have the opportunity to vote on the three pending free trade agreements. We have to understand that America…

Last Friday's jobs report was incredibly disappointing. We only added 18,000 jobs to the U.S. economy. Our unemployment rate went up to 9.2 percent. Not to mention the fact that we had a downgrade, a revision, of last month's, of May's job…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise in support of H.R. 1249, and one of the reasons I do is because it encourages innovation and entrepreneurship by reducing costly litigation within our patent system. Innovation is the…

Earlier this week, President Obama made a joke about his so-called stimulus package. Remember those shovel-ready projects we heard so much about? They were one of the major selling points for the package. Well, the President now says they…

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas for yielding and for talking about these important issues, and one thing that I do want to talk about is something you just said: kicking the can down the road. We can no longer afford to do that because…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, I rise today because I support this bill. And I do have a fact. The fact of the matter is that we have a gas crisis going on right now, and the fact of the matter is, when I go home and I fill up my…

I thank the gentleman. If we actually started to look and invest in those sorts of thing and get our energy independence going, we could have charts down on this floor that show job growth. According to CBO, if we pass today's legislation…

A little more than a week ago this House passed a continuing resolution with $100 billion in spending cuts. Not only was this an important step towards reining in our Nation's paralyzing deficits, it also sent a clear signal to job…