Joyce Timmons from Suitland, Maryland, called my office to say that the extra money in her paycheck from the soon-to-expire payroll tax cut is important to her and her family. Joyce and 160 million workers are wondering why my Republican…

I thank my colleague from Maryland for yielding. I want to congratulate Congressman Hanna. It's been a privilege to be able to work with Mr. Hanna on his efforts in resolving some issues that have held up the passage of H.R. 2061--and I'm…

A federal judge in North Carolina has rejected a request by former presidential candidate John Edwards to have his criminal indictment tossed out.

Woman, it seems that hardly a day goes by in this Chamber when the Republican majority fails to create jobs, endangers public health, and deep sixes the environment, and today is no different. Coal plants are usually accompanied by coal…

Thank you. What I'd like to say is that, given that we know that in poor minority populations they have the worst health outcomes by any measure and coal ash impoundments are disproportionately located in low-income communities that are…

With 21 legislative days remaining on the calendar, I urge my colleagues in the Majority to finally bring to the floor a jobs bill that puts Americans back to work rather than work to restrict a woman's right to receive affordable and…

I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in opposition to this bill that doesn't create jobs but strips women of appropriate reproductive health care services. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate subsequent sections, and conform internal…

There is a strong sense of deja vu here in the Chamber today. Last week, we gave power plants--the number one source of airborne mercury--free rein to spew neurotoxins and other hazardous materials into the air we breathe. The other day…

Just one question for the gentleman. I wonder if there is any time frame at all that would be acceptable for the implementation of standards that would save lives and create jobs?

I was going to speak about mercury, and I will get to that, but I really have to clarify for the Record and the public record. We keep hearing, and we've heard once again on this floor from our Republican colleagues, that the bill won't…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate the subsequent sections accordingly): SEC…

I think it's important for us to take a step back and review our history. The Clean Air Act has a proven 40-year track record of delivering technological innovation and economic growth for the American people while at the same time…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Maryland will be postponed.

The other side has been in the majority for 39 weeks and they still haven't passed a single piece of legislation to create jobs or help small businesses. And now they reject out-of-hand, commonsense ideas in the American Jobs Act that…

I want to thank the gentleman because I think that we've received some rather sobering news about the state of America and the state of American workers--the state of Americans. It is that here we are at a time when we've reached the…

Thank you for that. I just want to remind our colleagues that for every $1 billion, $1 billion that we invest in repairing the Nation's infrastructure, we create 35,000 jobs: $1 billion, 35,000 jobs. So the multiplier effect is really…

John Paul Stevens warned that the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United threatened to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the country. How right he was. Since the Court's decision last January, corporate special…

Nearly 8 months ago we stood on the floor of this House led by the Republican majority, swore the oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and even read the Constitution here on the floor of the House. We read in the…

I'm shocked. We spent 4 hours on the floor of the House of Representatives in January reading the Constitution, and now we get to spend a minute debating it. It's pretty amazing how much the folks on the other side value the Constitution…

I didn't think I would be down here this evening debating the Interior-EPA appropriations bill, in part because of the number of hours that we have spent in this Chamber on this bill when we actually should be facing the Nation's debt…

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

The ongoing stubbornness by my Republican colleagues to even entertain the idea of increasing revenues is putting our country at risk. Over the past decade, the top 2 percent of Americans making over $250,000 have done incredibly well. And…

That we would end them, that we would shift costs on things like Medicaid to our States, that we would reduce benefits for Social Security, all of this in the context of a conversation about lifting a debt ceiling and making cost cuts to…

Right. And I think that you were right to correct me. I mean, I think sometimes even I would like to think that perhaps what we're talking about with the Ryan budget that we've heard so much about and with these other ideas is about…