On rollcall No. 60, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________

America is facing some very serious problems, and they're looking to Congress for a solution. What have we done this week since the sequester is coming on Friday? We had one vote yesterday, and that was to rename a flight center, and we…

I have been listening to my colleagues on the other side point out that this is a Nation at war. Yes, it is. It has been at war for 9 long years, and I wish this Congress would talk about these wars and the cost. But I want to talk today…

Thank you, Chairman Miller, for your leadership on this legislation which deals with issues that are literally a matter of life and death. After the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch Mine, the committee went to Beckley, West Virginia, to…

I wanted to say, this is not just Democrats who are saying this. Republicans who are no longer in power have also been attacking these plans. David Stockman, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan…

Thank you. I think it is important to reiterate that we are very happy when Americans do well financially. We want every American to do well financially. I have said many times before that each one of us hopes to have a little more money…

Thank you, and I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you for bringing the Nation's attention to this problem. This is absolutely stunning. We spent a year and a half listening to our campaign opponents talk about borrowing and spending…

There is a button from an old Presidential campaign that says, ``I Like Ike.'' In this case, I love Ike. We will have to have a new button to talk about Ike Skelton. I arrived in the House 4 years ago on the Armed Services Committee, met…

Republicans are holding tax cuts for the middle class hostage as they try to extend tax cuts for millionaires. They say letting tax cuts for the very wealthy expire will hurt small businesses. It is just not true. Ninety-seven percent of…

First, I would like to thank Chairman Rahall and his staff for this very good piece of legislation before us today. It is a product of months of hard work. I believe it is a transformative bill that will go a long way to ensuring…

Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle are always warning the young people of this country that Social Security won't be there for them, so we should just scrap it now, raise the retirement age, and privatize Social Security…

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1427, honoring the life of John Robert Wooden. John Wooden loved basketball. As a young man in Martinsville, Indiana, starting on his high school basketball team in 1927, Wooden…