I thank the gentleman for his comments, Madam Speaker. I would just observe that the Senate bill that I was referring to doesn't raise taxes on anybody. In fact, what it does is ensures that no taxes will be raised on 98 percent of…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. I appreciate his observation with reference to a number of pieces of legislation that are pending, and as he mentions in his comments, the fiscal cliff, of course, is a concern, not only to us, but…

I thank the gentleman, and I thank the Speaker for her leadership on this issue. But I thank the gentleman for his assurance that he's focused on this and is going to work on it. I look forward to working with him on this bill, which I…

I thank my friend. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Lastly, let me ask you: Mr. Nadler has a resolution. I'm not sure if Mr. Grimm and Mr. King are on the resolution, but I presume they're on the resolution as well. It's a bipartisan resolution expressing condolences to those who were…

I don't know that I'm making myself clear: The Senate bill raises taxes on nobody. Nobody. The Senate bill simply says, for those making less than $200,000 individually, or $250,000 as a couple, they will not receive a tax increase. My…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I was in the cloakroom having some lunch, and I heard the gentlelady's comments. Most of us--a lot of us--went around this country listening to people as well as speaking on behalf of our respective…

I join my colleagues today from both sides of the aisle to stand with the people of Israel in support of their sovereign right to defend themselves against Hamas terror. Over the past year alone, Hamas has launched approximately 900…

President Bush came to us and said: The country's in trouble, at risk of going into depression. We need you to act. Who acted? The Democrats, in a bipartisan response to President Bush. Who walked away? Two-thirds of the Republican Party…

I thank the gentleman for his very cogent comments. I would remind him the Leader talked about that, and he's talked about it. Mr. Speaker, I think you will recall--George Bush, Republican President of the United States; Hank Paulson…

I thank the gentleman for his very compelling comments. I know that, Mr. Speaker, you've heard us speak and the Members have heard us speak, and one might say, well, these are Democrats speaking about the non-productivity and non-attention…

I yield to my friend from New Jersey (Mr. Holt), an effective Member of this House.

I thank the gentlelady for her comments. I want to now recognize the distinguished gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Carnahan), who's been such a leader on so many of these issues.

I thank the gentleman from California for his leadership, not only for farm country but for all of the people in this country on behalf of getting people back to work, making jobs available, and making sure our farmers are secure, and…

The gentleman may know this better than I because he works so closely with the ag community, but over 70 farm organizations and farmer-focused organizations came to town a week or two ago and all said pass the Senate bill, not because they…

Madam Leader, thank you for your comments and your leadership. You are so correct in studying the statistics of the Dow, having doubled. It's actually up now probably about 105, 110 percent. The Standard & Poor's is up more than double…

I thank the gentlelady for her comments. No one works harder on health care and is more focused on the delivery of affordable care to all of our people, but particularly concerned about health care for our seniors. How ironic it is that…

That is a sample of the dysfunction and inability and unwillingness to compromise on which Mr. Ornstein and Mr. Mann spoke. I now yield to my friend from New York (Mr. Tonko).

I thank the distinguished Member from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky) for her comments. Nobody fights harder for working people and seniors in this Congress than Jan Schakowsky, and no one is sadder that we have been so lacking in attention to…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. He is absolutely right. Mr. Speaker, just for the knowledge of all of our Members, the Senate did pass a middle class tax cut, making sure that 98 percent of our taxpayers would not get any increase…

And so this 112th Congress convulses to an ugly end of its time before the national elections. All of us must be sad, and the American people are angry and sad that this Congress has been so inattentive to the needs of the American people…

I thank the gentlelady for her comments, and I yield to my friend, Suzanne Bonamici, who was such an effective State legislator. She was overwhelmingly elected in a special election. And every day since that election, she has been working…

I'm sure America has been watching the ads. The ads say that black is white, and they say it over and over and over and over again. And they hope the American people believe that black is white. But it's not enough for them to say it on…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in order to compete in today's global economy, we need to attract the best and brightest math and science students from around the world. I think we all agree on that. American technology…

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, it is an absurd assertion that people I don't like. I would hope the gentleman would retract that. It has nothing to do with people we like or don't like.