I would observe, we saw the district of Gabrielle Giffords had crosshairs put on it. As a lifetime rifleman and shooter, I know what crosshairs signify when you put them on somebody, and I know what happened. One other quotation: ``If…

I rise, as do all of my colleagues, with sincere condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the horrific events of last Saturday. The victims amongst them were a young student, a number of congressional staff members, one of our…

If you listen to the Republicans today, they are telling us don't bother them with the facts. Their minds are made up. They are unaware of the fact that the Congressional Budget Office says that this is going to create 4 million jobs in…

As a cosponsor of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, I rise today in strong support of this legislation, and I commend the United States Senate for passing this legislation before the end of 111th Congress. Today's consideration…

This is not the first time we have seen this bill. It came out of the Committee on Energy and Commerce unanimously. It was informally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, where they had a chance to take a look at it. It passed the…

It creates a new focus on prevention, and it shares responsibility between FDA and the food manufacturers so that they can cooperatively work to keep the food supply safe, working together. It also is going to require manufacturers to…

I beg you, the safety of your constituents, of our people, is at stake. And I hope you will work with me to pass this legislation so that we can make our consumers not only trust the system but also to know that it is going to work to…

I hope if there's enthusiasm for doing further work on this, that my colleagues will join me next year in doing the same thing with regard to pharmaceuticals. And I remind you that the committee has worked not in opposition to American…

I rise as a cosponsor and strong supporter of H.R. 2965, the Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. I want to thank Representative Patrick Murphy (D-PA) for his unrelenting advocacy for repealing this discriminatory law and Majority…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this continuing resolution, and especially the food safety provisions. They represent a good first step in reforming our food safety system and reducing food-borne illness. This House passed much…

I am pleased to rise in support of the Senate amendment to H.R. 5297, the Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010. I want to commend the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts for his…

I would urge my colleagues on the other side to join us. Let us move forward towards jobs; let us move forward towards economic development and activity; let us move forward towards cooperation on important matters, like seeing to it that…

I stood before this body in 1999 and gave full-throated opposition to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. My opposition had the merit of being correct a decade ago and, at the very least, prophetic today. Indeed, Graham-Leach-Bliley gave…

I rise with considerable sadness to announce the death of a good friend of most of us in this body. Our former colleague and friend, Congressman Marvin Esch of Ann Arbor has died. He was 82. Mr. Esch served in the Michigan State House of…

We have before us a wonderful opportunity; we can begin to solve a problem that's going to destroy our medical care system in this country. Doctors are abandoning Medicare patients because they can no longer afford to serve them. And it is…

I simply want to observe two things: first, we are saying good-bye tonight to a giant, a patriot, a wonderful human being, a man who cared about his fellow Americans and who spent his lifetime making it the best he could for his fellow…

As a cosponsor of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, I rise today in strong support of this legislation. In recent years we have watched as our country has fallen behind in educating our children for the 21st century and developing…

This is an amendment which is to deal with a very important injustice done to marines by the Department of the Navy... people in the Marine Corps are being hurt, injured, poisoned, given cancer and other things by the way the Department of…

I am proud to stand in support of HomeStar, which holds much promise in three important areas. First and foremost, it will create jobs. Second, it will lead to greater residential energy efficiency. Third, it has the potential to lead to…

I rise in strong support of the resolution expressing the sympathy of the United States for the people of Poland in the aftermath of the tragic plane crash that killed the country's President, First Lady, and 94 other Poles. My thoughts…

Today is a day that is going to rank with the day we passed the civil rights bill in 1964. Today we are doing something that ranks with what we did on Social Security or Medicare. This is the day on which we can all be proud if we vote for…

I am delighted to join him and my other colleagues in this tribute to a great citizen of the State of Michigan. He is our friend, our distinguished colleague from Michigan's Fifth District, Dale Kildee, who has just cast his 19,999th vote…

It is not long since a bunch of avaricious, grasping New York bankers caused a replay of 1929 and a major collapse of the American economy. They were too big to fail, and as a result, this Nation has spent hundreds of billions of dollars…

As a boy, I was a page in this body during the Depression. My father was a Member of Congress. A third of the Americans were out of work. People were losing their homes and their farms, businesses were closing. Hardship was terrifying. It…

I rise in support of the manager's amendment to H.R. 384, the ``TARP Reform and Accountability Act of 2009.'' Let me begin by thanking the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Financial Services for his fine work on H.R. 384, as well…