I understand that. We're talking about tax credits for health care. You don't want to make certain individuals eligible for those tax credits; isn't that correct? Your attempt here is to not make certain people who under the Affordable…

Are you also going to make that same suggestion that we change the adjusted gross income for eligibility for the purposes of IRA contributions?

I thank my colleague from Michigan for yielding. I just want to note for the record that the majority leader did not challenge my point that, if this bill passes, it will, in fact, increase taxes on the middle class.

We are now more than 275 days into this 112th Congress, and the GOP leadership has put forward zero American jobs bills and outright rejected consideration of President Obama's jobs proposal. So if jobs aren't at the heart of the…

South Korea has strong labor and environmental laws. South Korea is committed to a representative democracy, and South Korea recognizes that trade is a two-way street that must benefit Americans as well as South Koreans. I strongly urge…

Let me just make one point. There is partisanship. There are those who would use this opportunity to divide. Not here in the United States, not Republicans and Democrats, but around the world. This is a world forum we're talking about in…

I want to thank my dear friend and colleague from Florida for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about one of the most important issues in our world, and that is peace in the Middle East. For far too many years, many…

I thank my friend from Washington for yielding me such time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of House Joint Resolution 66. This measure is a sign of how we can all work together on foreign policy when we put our minds to it. I want…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to the amendment that would eliminate section 18 of the underlying patent reform bill. Section 18 empowers the Patent and Trademark Office to review the validity…

On May 5, 2011, I was absent for 6 rollcall votes because I joined the President at a wreath laying ceremony in honor of victims of 9/11 in New York. If I had been here, I would have voted: ``no'' on rollcall vote 293; ``no'' on rollcall…

With all due respect to my colleague, Mrs. Black, when someone comes to the floor and says, I'm going to speak now free of hyperbole, well, it will be so high up to your neck you don't have to worry about getting it off your shoe because…

Thank you, Mr. Levin. I am a bit disturbed as well about the description of the individuals we're talking about here, as though everyone is trying to scam the system. I would just point out, in the bill H.R. 4994, which had bipartisan…