``The gulf oil spill has been terrible for the Gulf Coast. But as bad as it has been, the Federal Government's moratorium on deepwater drilling can be worse.'' Mr. Speaker, 18 months ago I had the honor to speak these words while offering…

How many have been fired? It is a pretty simple question if you only have 206 employees, and how many do you have on the chopping block?

I just don't know what to say.

I understand the Coast Guard has the authority to use an alternative security program. Can we use an alternative security program?

if I concede the argument that your job is important for safety, it frankly seems not just an indictment of your organization, but it frankly seems to place my constituents at risk.

On rollcall No. 24, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Connolly of Virginia The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment…

obviously it paints a disaster in terms of acquisition, inventory management, attitudes, I mean, it is just a total indictment.

I am struck in your report that you are even pessimistic about the ability of a closed nuclear fuel cycle to make a difference right now.

But, obviously, Senator Reid does not and he has effectively used his power to kill it.

Now, let me ask you, if--it does seem though if we are going to commit, as the President has committed, to building some new nuclear power plants, that one, it would be a logical time if we do have that technology to integrate the two.

Is it because of previous decisions made by, say, President Carter that we have not committed to reprocessing, or is there actually a technical barrier that our guys cannot embrace?

Now, I have read something by the CEO of AREVA, the French concern that does nuclear, they claim that now they reduce waste down to a quarter of what the waste would be with their reprocessing.

No one likes change, even from worse to better.

In the challenge that we have in creating jobs, every now and then we have a lighthearted moment. Congresswoman Sewell, who represents Tuscaloosa, and I made a challenge to each other over the BCS championship game. I'm here to pay off my…

I actually again agree with my colleague, Mr. Garamendi. There has been a lot of sturm und drang, but there's actually something that we can agree upon here. First, I'll say that President Obama, many congressional Democrats and House…

On rollcall No. 941 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

Unemployment continues to hover over 9 percent. And when we say unemployment as 9 percent, that is a statistic. But we know that it's just not a statistic; it is a family. It is a family which is less able to provide, less able to have…

If already, I think as Deutch said, it is on the chopping block because of the fiscal strain Medicaid is playing.

It is hard to get the American people an honest answer.

So once we put the imprimatur of government that this is an OK activity and therefore Google can run a sidebar...

If anyone is concerned about our jobs program, go to gop.gov.jobs. That's all the bills we've introduced so far that we have passed--most of the time you have not participated, but indeed it directly addresses the need for more jobs…

Now, would this data be, could this data be or is this data, when it is connected, is it collated, correlated, da-da-da dated, in order to further target me in a more sophisticated fashion?

If I log on my phone, I register my phone, I pull it out of the box and I register it, it says hey, I am Bill Cassidy, I am da-da-da...

Thank you for creating jobs, and I am very sorry for the impediments put in front of you by the Federal Government.

I am struck how sometimes processes used to manipulate the response to the findings.