I thank the gentleman from Arizona, and I thank him for his amendment. I support it, but I respectfully do not support the Grimm amendment. I'm from Michigan. Michigan takes no backseat in this country to union labor. It is the returning…

I saw stacks, I saw emissions taking place there.

I appreciate that testimony.

So there is a Catch-22 going on here that says commence construction and cease construction.

Things are starting to turn.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I stand in strong support of this amendment, an amendment that I think speaks to a rationality in our contracting, and especially when we think of what we're talking about here in the…

I thank the gentlelady. We ought to be looking at ways for growing an economy that gives the opportunity for students to know that they will have a job, that they can pay off loans at whatever rate it will be. There is a much better way…

I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, just a bit of a history lesson. We hear a lot of demagoguery going on right now from the highest office of the land about the unwillingness of Republicans to help our college students receive the…

I, respectfully, beg to differ with that. As far as the information we have requested, it has been willfully incomplete and inadequate to address the concerns that we, respectfully, submitted to you.

Mr. Speaker, 3 years ago President Obama promised Congress that the American people would have 6 percent unemployment in exchange for trillions of taxpayer dollars to pump into the economy. Today we know that the stimulus program was…

I think we need more opportunity for people to express their concerns, their ideas, their objectives.