It is time that we get back to doing what we do best in Louisiana, and that is, fueling our nation.

Increasing our dependence on foreign oil has direct ramifications on our national security.

By stopping drilling in the Gulf, are we helping the environment or harming it? I believe we are actually harming it.

I would also, Ms. Randolph, like to ask you to submit for the Congressional Record the resolution from the National Association of Counties.

I would say to the Administration, listen to your own experts. Listen to the facts, as the Chair of this Committee has so articulately pronounced them today, and let us have our jobs back.

I do not feel like we are being protected or served at all.

And that is assuming the best-case scenario, and we are not on a glide path to that right now, in my view.

And this is a letter I sent to President Obama on July 26th, and that should be reflected in the record.

The TARP, some of us voted for it, some of us did not, but there are some legitimate criticisms of it. I mean, it went to a lot of the big banks, bigger banks. It did go to some middle-sized banks, I will concede that to the opponents…

This says: Is small business credit in a deep recession? This is the NFIB. They are one of the most conservative business organizations. I want to read to you their executive summary. It says: Forty percent of small business owners…

Absolutely, this is a jobs bill. The Senator from Michigan represents a State that has been one of the hardest hit States, the automobile industry. She has firsthand experience there. She knows these numbers as well as I do: From 1993 to…

Absolutely. The Senator is correct. He refers to this long list, which I have read several times on the floor. It is quite lengthy. These are not liberal organizations. They are not even Democratic or Republican organizations. They are…

If I took out the words ``big government,'' ``taxes,'' or ``regulations,'' neither the Senator from South Dakota nor most of the Members on the other side could finish a sentence, because they can't debate a specific. He gets up and starts…

It is an important one because the Senator did not vote for TARP. Yet she is here as a cosponsor of this amendment. So it gives us some idea that Members who did not vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program understand this is completely…

This recession has hit these communities the hardest. The number of home foreclosures has wreaked havoc on these communities. The small businesses that are the engines for economic activity desperately need access to capital. The U.S…

We know you cannot go anywhere in this country, from Alaska to Florida-- and that is about as far as we can get, from Alaska to Florida--and not hear of the pain and the fear. It is not just pain, it is downright fear on the part of a…

I do agree with one thing she said, which is there could be other amendments offered to maybe make this bill better. But I wish to ask my ranking member through the Chair: This amendment is pending. We are going to vote on this amendment…

small firms in America, those between 1 employee and 499 employees, created 65 percent of the jobs. Only 35 percent of the jobs were created by large firms. These numbers on this chart pertain to the last decade. I think this 65 percent…

We are now on a very important bill, the small business jobs growth bill. It is a bill that actually many of us on both sides of the aisle...have contributed immensely to the building of a bill that we think holds a great deal of promise…

I thought I would come to the floor while we had this time to make a few general remarks about the small business bill and also specifically about the Small Business Lending Fund which is the amendment that is pending. The Small Business…

I appreciate the opportunity to get back to the issue at hand, which is the small business bill, a job creation bill for America. It is something that many of us have worked on now for over a year. This bill has been developed by the work…

I did not realize he was such a fan of Elizabeth Warren. I was really under the impression that he and some of the leaders on that side had some objections to her style of leadership. But they surely have quoted her today because she was…

I thank my colleague from Florida for his excellent explanation using real stories and terrific visuals because he just painted a picture for us about what those empty shopping centers look like. We have seen those in our own States as…

I thank my colleague for the beautiful stories she shared from her State. It makes this all so real. It is. It seems as if sometimes it is not when we debate these bills on the floor. But it is so real--the outcome of what we do on the…

I am humbled, actually, to be able to present this amendment because it is quite unusual. Normally a chairman or a chairwoman presents amendments in bills that they themselves wrote. That happens here all the time. This is a very unusual…