Today we are going to talk about the greatest story never told.

This progress is due to a number of factors including technological innovations, state and local efforts, and to some degree, the rational implementation of federal regulations.

I first want to recognize and welcome our new ranking member, Representative Suzanne Bonamici from Oregon.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The gentleman from Pennsylvania who spoke just a few minutes ago put his finger right on the problem. We have a $16.4 trillion debt--$50,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country; $50,000 for every baby born today. Before that…

I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for taking a pause every year to let us review what happened 40 years ago and what's happened since. Because some 40 years ago, obviously the Supreme Court decided that it was no longer the…

Given the expense of the redundancy necessary in a manned program and our need to get the most training and research and engineering experience knowledge for the dollars we spend at NASA, isn't it time to say that maybe manned programs…

That they continue to do it because they are drilling here, not making money overseas.

The United States has----

I mean, the vast majority goes to small owners and drillers?

While President Obama continues to claim he supports an 'all-of-the-above' energy strategy, the plain facts tell a different story.

Unfortunately, the degree to which the U.S. will pursue and realize these benefits remains in doubt, primarily due to politics.

It seems that that is the best way we should be spending our money is actually to find out how to increase production through new technology.

The sad fact is that the Environmental Protection Agency bases its regulations on data and modeling that is often withheld from the public. My amendment simply requires that the Environmental Protection Agency make available to the public…

What's there to hide? As I said, if a regulation is justified, why should the government hide data from the public in their justification of a regulation? Mr. Chairman, I've done scientific studies. I've been the peer reviewer on…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 21, line 18, strike ``and''. Page 22, line 2, strike the period and insert a semicolon. Page 22, after…

So it's in addition to that $700 billion. There's another $300 billion that's going to get cut from payments to providers. Here's the problem. You know, I think the gentleman from Michigan points it out. Medicare is going broke, and it's…

On those lists of questions of those $716 billion that's basically going to be transferred from the Medicare program to pay for the President's new health care reform bill, that doesn't even include the over $300 billion to cuts in…

It is a shame that the Democrat controlled Senate voted today to adjourn for over a month, and they haven't even voted on a budget for 1,191 days. Mr. Speaker, this is a $3.5 trillion enterprise, and the Democrat- controlled Senate, led by…

I thank the gentleman for yielding the time to me. I will tell you the argument that this is unconstitutional just isn't true. I urge the Members on the other side of the aisle who oppose the measure to read Judge Teilborg's opinion, just…

What I don't support and will not support, and I think others should not support, is using Congressional oversight for scandal mongering.

Its importance and timeliness is magnified significantly by the fact that the President has proposed a new $1 billion mandatory program.

To be honest with you, there are a lot of folks who think that the stimulus money wasn't spent very well.

I hope that that is the sentiment of everyone who sits in Congress, to be honest with you, that we don't use Congress for scandal mongering.

We should always remember that we are spending taxpayer money.