For the last 5 weeks or so since the new majority has taken over the House, as 15 million people are unemployed in this country, as people are losing their homes, losing their businesses, the majority has focused like a laser beam on…

This amendment sets a new standard of irresponsibility that I hope the House never again emulates. Let's assume that a worker who is trying to organize a union is fired because of his or her union organizing activity, files a complaint…

We do believe that reducing our deficit is one of the ways to instill confidence and create jobs. So, Mr. Speaker, I have a proposal for consideration. We give away $4 billion a year in tax breaks to oil companies. Last week, the former…

I have thousands of service personnel who serve our country, and I have hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who pay for the government of our country, and I am convinced that the right answer for our service personnel and for our taxpayers…

What would it mean to the taxpayer who is sitting at home watching you testify today?

You will always have the right to a robust debate in an open process that allows you to make your case and offer alternatives. Always. I'm not sure if 'always' applies to this rule.

So you wouldn't have the personnel to update and run the Web site.

Now, I understand that the budget on the floor today would cut nearly $100 million from OSHA's budget, almost a 40 percent cut.

a reckless cut like this obviously has a severe impact on the Department, and that is regrettable.

I come from a State, New Jersey, which prides on being the medicine chest of the world, in our pharmaceutical industry. How can you have a cutting edge in pharmaceutical products if you lay off people from the FDA, the Food and Drug…

As we meet this morning, there are 15 million unemployed people in our country. And what I'm hearing from our constituents is they want us to work together to find ways to help the job generators of this country, small businesses and…

Americans are asking, ``Where are the jobs?'' And the majority is saying, ``We'll get to that later.'' This week, the first thing that they did was to try to rush to the floor, without hearings or consideration, an extension of the Patriot…