Steve Scalise

I want to get to some of these specific emails because these emails span throughout the entire length of the Solyndra loan and restructuring.

I want to know if anyone in the White House is part of that decision-making chain that said we are going to subordinate the taxpayers of the United States in restructuring this Solyndra loan.

We have been asking for months now... and you all stonewalled us.

Did you make the decision to subordinate the taxpayers and put them in the back of the line?

So did you make any changes based on the problems that they now know?

When the President says pass a bill, you can wonder why some of us say let me read the bill first and let us look at the details.

A lot of us are questioning this kind of double down son of stimulus approach where they are going to come back and do more of this kind of same failed policy of just spending money we don't have.

The President right now is touting what I call son of stimulus, another bill to come through, spend more taxpayer money, to do more things like this.

I can show you small business after small business that can't grow jobs because of your regulations directly related to your regulations, not nebulous.

From everybody I have talked to, you are in the business of putting people out of work right now.

So basically what you are saying is, if you force a company to spend another million dollars complying with some rule that you come up with, Congress didn't pass it but you all came with a rule, you are acknowledging that that is forcing…

The primary impediment to creating jobs today for them are the regulations coming out of this Administration

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas

What the amendment, as it's now revised, would do is it would still reduce the $420,000. It wouldn't go to the Spending Reduction Account; it would stay within the department, and I think that addresses one of the concerns that the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 32, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ``(decreased by $420,000)''. Page 158, line 25, after the dollar amount…

You can't blame that on somebody else. You can't say you are not getting enough money.

I mean, Dr. Fischell, this is somebody who has been inventing devices for decades, has been nationally recognized, inventor of the year...

I thank the distinguished chairman. As many of our colleagues know, it is critical in Louisiana and elsewhere throughout the Nation to restore as quickly as possible the flood control and navigation integrity of our inland waterway system…

Section 501(a) provides to the Corps of Engineers more than $1 billion in emergency supplemental funding for disaster relief. The section makes those funds available ``for emergency expenses for repair of damages caused by the storm and…

Thank you. I would like to enter into a colloquy with the distinguished chairman of the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana will be postponed. Amendment No. 81 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___ For ``Corps of…

Woman, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana is recognized for 5 minutes.

We cannot let this authorization expire, which it would if we didn't have this legislation.

I think it should be required reading for all regulators.