It takes real heroes and real leaders to believe in the possibility of what we can do through hard work, perseverance, and commitment to make the world a better place. I'm proud to say that my hometown of Louisville has many of these…

You have called it catastrophic, we call it reckless, all in all, not a good idea.

The American people, I think, would be repulsed by the idea that we would default on our debt.

Now, we have just heard from a colleague from the other side of the aisle, and we have heard from many Republicans over the last few days, concerning the issue of spending and whether or not we need to be spending any more money in this…

In the wake of the tragedy in Tucson 10 days ago, there has been a lot of soul searching, a lot of introspection, and a lot of commentary about what was behind the tragedy there and what motivated Jared Loughner to take the action he did…

Over the course of the last year and a half as we worked to pass incredibly important protections to Americans, opponents of health care reform continued to try to scare people about what we were doing. And now with this vote today, where…

Tomorrow we will vote on H.R. 2, the Republican health care bill. This bill is another example of actions speaking louder than words. Now, many of my Republican colleagues have said they support certain health care reforms: a ban on…

Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is one of the kindest, most thoughtful and hardest working elected officials anywhere. It is a shame that it took a despicable act to shine this bright spotlight on Gabby. She is what virtually every American…

I thank the distinguished Congresswoman from Maryland for her comments, and I'm actually kind of glad that Congressman King brought up these major benefits which are now helping families across this country. Ms. Edwards talked about the…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and congratulations on your election. It's a great pleasure to be here today. I could spend the next half hour responding to my colleague from Iowa. I think it's fascinating just that one comment, that he talks…

I thank the gentleman. And reclaiming my time, the analogy I used earlier was with families, and we all know we're in a difficult budgetary situation. We know we're running huge deficits right now, and we know that the money that we are…

I go back to these rules that have been adopted now in the House, and they basically give extraordinary unprecedented power to one person to set these budget limits to decide the budgetary impact of an investment in infrastructure or a…