Madam Speaker, I was unable to cast the record votes for rollcalls 250, 251, 252, 255 and 256. Had I been present I would have voted as follows for these measures: H.R. 365, on Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended, No. 250…

Mr. Speaker, most of us remember a teacher who made us look at the world a little differently, introduced us to a new idea or changed the way we thought. For me, that teacher was Betty Miles. For 2 years at Atherton High School in…

Mr. Speaker, my friends across the aisle like to say they support small business owners, but other than keeping fact- checkers employed, Republican leaders are holding back those businesses by continuing to make false claims about the…

I want to express my outrage at the subject under investigation not just for myself, but on behalf of the 13,000 current and retired Federal employees in my district.

I thank my friend from Maryland. Mr. Chairman, a recent analysis of American tax returns showed that in 2010, the top 1 percent of earners in the United States earned $288 billion more than they had in 2009--$288 billion more, the top 1…

Madam Speaker, a recent analysis of American tax revenues revealed that in 2010, as our country was recovering from the Great Recession, 93 percent of new income went to the top 1 percent of earners. That's $288 billion more exclusively…

Madam Speaker, Rush Limbaugh's appalling attack on Georgetown student Sandra Fluke is no isolated incident, but part of a broader GOP assault on women's health. Republicans have ushered in Women's History Month with legislation to allow…

Madam Speaker, it's been more than 2 years since the Supreme Court rendered its Citizens United decision, and American politics is becoming more corrupt by the dollar. Election season is flooded with special-interest money, confirming the…

Madam Speaker, there's no question that our economy is recovering. The private sector has added jobs for 23 straight months, putting 3.7 million Americans workers back on the job. Last week, in my district, GE opened its first new…

if you are not going to raise revenues by allowing the effective tax rates to rise modestly for the top 2 percent of Americans, who are you going to ask to pay more taxes, or whose benefits are you going to cut?

I want to first of all congratulate you on what I think is the clearest articulation of our short-term economic needs and our long-term challenges that I have yet heard.