To build upon this success, the House on June 16th passed two vital pieces of legislation to create hundreds of thousands of jobs on Main Street.

As chairman of the Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, I rise today in strong support of S. 3473, legislation to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for…

That is a huge number. 800,000?

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

They are private jobs.

I could not help but think that the American people have lost in at least two ways. One, they have lost with regard to money that they could have been making on the market. Two, they have lost because the so-called swaps that were…

So the urgency is now. We've got to act on this now. I'm hoping that that will happen. We have done our part. Then we've got to wait for our brothers and sisters on the other side to do theirs. Again, we just cannot continue to wait.

A lot of people think the kids are just not bright. They don't have the money.

the retention rate is not what I would like for it to be, and one of the main reasons why it is not is because the kids don't have money.

Fraudulent Fab. As he talked, I heard no remorse. I heard folks basically saying, This is the way we do it, this is how we do it, and almost implying that it was none of our business, none of the business of the Senate or the House. The…

At the end of the day, the greatest affirmative action program yet invented is a good, solid education.

So many have lost jobs in this recession, and as CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told this committee, a large number of those jobs are not coming back.

none of this matters if, at the end of the day, it does not result in benefits to our constituents.

Our clients' interests always come first. If that were truly their goal, they would have put out that information. They seem to be saying, Well, you know, maybe it may be a little teeny bit unethical, but we did not have a duty. When you…

Again, you make the case for why we have to have reform. We have to have reform and act with the urgency of now, because every moment that goes by, I'm afraid there's going to be another Goldman Sachs deal. By the way, others are watching…

No, I really don't. Goldman, they said our slogan is: Our customers always come first.

H. Res. 197 commends the American Sail Training Association, ASTA, for its work creating opportunities for young people to sail on traditionally rigged sailing vessels and for its work representing the United States in international sail…

I just wanted to close here and just say that I agree with the gentlelady with regard to tall ships. Being from the port city of Baltimore, we've had the opportunity to see the tall ships and to see what sailing has done for our country. I…

I commend them on so many things that they have done so well. On that note, when we look back at Katrina and at all of the agencies which operated during Katrina, there is absolutely no question that the United States Coast Guard was the…

I just believe with all my heart that we can do better.

We have an empathy deficit. He's been saying this long before he became President.

Sometimes $25,000 is worth $10 million because it acts as a bridge.

I just refuse to believe that we cannot help these Americans who go out there every day, do the right thing.

That's not the spirit of this country. That's not the country that I grew up in.

There's money that's flowed through the CDFIs, which has helped community development.