I thank the gentleman for yielding and I congratulate him for his leadership, and I thank Mr. Camp as well for his work. In the fall, Madam Speaker, of 2008, America did not know whether it was heading for the second Great Depression…

Is the motion going to be read? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The rule dispenses with the reading. The motion is merely designated. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 minutes.

My colleagues, we have come this far not to be thwarted by a procedural motion that will never have effect. They know that. We know that. Vote ``no.'' Vote ``yes'' for the health care of all America. I yield back the balance of my time…

I thank the Speaker. Ladies and gentlemen, we have come a far pace. The majority of this House has just voted to do for Americans what a hundred years of Presidents have asked for. We are on the cusp of a great victory for America and for…

I thank my friend for yielding. Today is March 21, 2010. On March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was a march across that bridge for the vote in this democracy. It was a march towards a…

I thank the Republican whip for yielding. As previously announced, on Friday the House will meet at 9 a.m. for legislative business. On Saturday, Members are advised that the House will meet at 9 a.m., which is the custom, with recorded…

Votes will not begin before 2 o'clock. I don't know exactly. We come in at 1 o'clock. We may have votes at 1 o'clock in terms of procedural votes. But I want to make it clear we will have no vote on the health care bill until 72 hours…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Go Terps! And they did. I'm a graduate of the University of Maryland. Like so many others, I am very proud of my alma mater. I went there many, many years ago. I have owned a number of homes throughout…

First of all, the 72-hour rule, I didn't say that we were casting aside any rule, nor did I say that we may not have more than 72 hours' notice. You may well have more than 72 hours' notice. What I said to you was I am not going to commit…

I expect the House to have very significant time to consider the proposals that come out of the Budget Committee and/or the Rules Committee. And this bill, of course, either bill, the House bill or the Senate bill, as proposed, have been…

What the President was referring to, of course, in terms of an up-or-down vote, was a majority vote. One of the problems we have had in the Senate, as the gentleman knows and experienced as well when his party was in the majority, it is…

This is an extraordinarily difficult issue not only for the Congress but for Americans generally and for individuals. There is a dispute on this language, he is correct. As he knows, neither side likes the language in the Senate bill. One…