the unemployment system is on sounder financial footing going forward.

You know, there has been a lot of talk about helping middle-class, working families, small businesses, affordable health care, and so forth.

this has to be a top priority.

I would like a detailed summary of where we are with this.

Well, it empowers their reformers.

this deserves serious attention, because I am hearing from small businesses that are seeing very high premium increases, up to 40 percent over last year's premium increases, in my district, and yet we have this.

Thank you for your fine work and your team.

We feel, down in the--on the Gulf Coast, that this creates unfair competition.

What is the Administration's strategy for 2015 to deal with this?

Congratulations on getting a little bit of a breakthrough at APEC on ITA.

Our negotiators need to maximize their leverage in these negotiations.

As we deal with income inequality, this is also one of the potential solutions, by embracing trade policy, opening markets, and also embracing this remarkable energy revolution.

Exports now account for 25 percent of the State's GDP. We have doubled exports in 4 years.

I believe that America's opportunity to lead, the catalyst for leadership is trade promotion authority, which then opens a door and gives our negotiators the best leverage to move forward on TPP, on TTIP, on TISA, and all these trade…

Here we are in year 6 of the recovery, and I think we have all established that growth is absolutely essential.

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I thank my friend across the aisle. I think if only we could conduct business this way, it might all be good and we could solve a lot of problems, so I thank the gentleman. This is, again, a commonsense reform, it came out of the…

I want to put this in strategic context. We are seeing a once-in-a-century upheaval in the Middle East, and the most virulent manifestation of that is occurring in Syria today with a very complex civil war raging over several years. On one…

I think this is, again, commonsense legislation that is needed. It is a necessary reform which came out in the investigation that we have done so far. I urge its passage, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore…

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We are very concerned about the integrity of the program, and safeguards on the front end.

This is all very troubling, and I am glad you are going to continue taking a more in depth look at this.

And we know that if we have--if we fall back into a pay-and-chase situation, it is very difficult to recover those dollars. Is that correct?