I'm tired of hearing the President is a failure. I'm tired. You can smirk all you want. There's no perfection on this floor. There's no perfection down the street. You didn't give these speeches in 2008 when we were losing 500, 600…

In just a few hours, the President of the United States will be on the floor to present his ideas as to how we can grow our economy and put the American people back to work. I hope the majority keeps an open mind and rejects the extreme…

I want to state for the Record that on January 23, 2012, I missed the two rollcall votes of the day. Had I been present I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall vote No. 5, on H.R. 3117--Permanent Electronic Duck Stamp Act of 2011…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan. Listening to this debate, you're not hearing the same thing you heard 7 months ago I'm told. But when you look away, then you say: Gee, didn't I hear this before. Maybe that is true on both sides. Bruce…

Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. This is not a fraternity house. This is the House of Representatives. Yet what have we wrought? I heard someone, two people say on this floor, quoting the President of the United States--they should apologize…

Over 8 years since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are still not properly addressing traumatic brain injury, also known as the signature injury of both wars. {time} 1300 I want to thank Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member…

I want to commend Mr. Camp and Mr. Levin for working hard on these issues. I think they do try to put the country before the party. But this bill is terrible. It is terrible. The holidays must have come early for the majority. What we have…

As cochair of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, one of my top priorities is to help our servicemembers with brain injuries. With posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury recognized as the signature injuries of the…

I missed the last rollcall vote today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall vote No. 859, on H. Res. 470--Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 3094-- Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act.

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Speaker, this attempt to change the Constitution of the United States is a real disaster. We all want to make sure we balance the budgets, but to compare our household budget to the national budget is…

I thank the gentleman. ``The fact that State governments need to work against these effects in their own budgets--need to take action to raise taxes or cut spending in recessions--undoes the automatic stabilizers, essentially, at the State…

Twelve thousand fewer police officers we have in this country; 12,000 fewer police officers in our streets. We should be worried about that as a priority rather than this as a priority. So I made the decision. The evidence is like this…