I'll be very brief. I thank the gentleman for his continuing focus. If I am the corner of the phrase and the focuser of Make It in America, you are its chief spokesperson and salesperson, so I thank you for that effort. It's so important…

All Americans are concerned about high gas prices and the growing cost they are imposing on our families. We should also be concerned that those high prices might stall our economic recovery. So what can we do to reduce the burden, both…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Two minutes, of course, is not time enough to discuss this issue, but I rise in opposition to this piece of legislation. With millions out of work, the American people sent Congress a strong mandate in…

Stingy, aren't you? I miss my 1 minute, ladies and gentlemen, I tell you that. The public won't know what I'm talking about, of course. But the fact of the matter is this bill is bad public policy, it's bad for women's health, and it's bad…

That will be the proposition on our side. Very frankly, I tell my friend from Wisconsin the premise on your side, in my view, has been consistently for the 30 years that I have been here, if you simply reduce revenues somehow magically the…

I think at the beginning of this debate we need to put it in context. I know that I must bore my friends on the majority side of the aisle, but during my 30 years in this body, there have been essentially three economic programs adopted…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This piece of legislation will provide for the funding of our government from now until September 30 of this year. While I do not want to engage in a debate looking at the past, we are here because we…

We have heard from two Members on each side of the aisle who, without respect of course to any partisan differences, raised their voices in sadness about the loss of two of our brave Americans in the defense of freedom. I join their…

Congressman Allen West, a newly elected Republican from Florida, said, ``I'm disgusted at the perception that leaders in my own party are now using the men and women in uniform to pass a short-term budget bill.'' That was a newly elected…

I wish to speak on the point of order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized.

Isn't it a shame, I tell my friend who just spoke, that his colleagues objected to a unanimous consent request yesterday which would have taken care of the problem he raises today. There's not a person on this floor that doesn't want to…

Could my friend yield just so I can correct, because I will tell my dear friend----