Joe Crowley

I am pleased that the House, in a bipartisan way, passed legislation last year to relax the FIRPTA laws to encourage greater investment in the U.S. commercial real estate market.

I would argue that more than half of that was run up by the borrowing and spend policies of the previous Administration.

The U.S. has a $14 trillion deficit, $14 trillion deficit.

Are Republicans returning tax rates on millionaires to what they were during the economically prosperous years of the nineties? No.

Republicans appear to believe the rich pay too much in taxes, and the middle class not enough.

But what is even more ironic is, while the Republicans are ripping Medicare away from seniors and stealing tax benefits from the middle class, they uniformly oppose tax measures pushed by the Democrats to punish the wealthy Americans who…

Will this Committee consider a Committee hearing on the concept of a shared sacrifice in this country? Is that something that we could look forward to?

Have they put forward a plan to remedy the situation to scale back spending?

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. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. McDermott, as well. Let me also thank Chairman Camp and Ranking Member Levin for their work on the Korean free trade agreement and bringing us to where we are today.

Has anyone asked for it yet?

There has been a great deal of discussion about the lack of movement on trade by the Administration.

Do you have any observation about why you think TAA has stalled here?

No one from the House of Representatives has asked for the draft?

So maybe you can dispel some of the rumors that there is kind of a quagmire here, we are not moving out, and we are stuck in the mud, we are not moving out of this. That is kind of not really true. Is that correct?

I do not like the way in which people are being broadly disparaged based upon their immigration status in this country.

It seems to me the Republican target is not duplicative programming, but vital lifelines for millions of struggling American families today.

It is not unnecessary to help American families; in fact, very necessary that we help American families, especially during these very difficult times.

We are already seeing Republican plans to cut Pell grants in their budget resolution released today.

The Republicans' proposal would combine the Pell grant program with other valuable but unrelated programs.

Over 22,000 students in my district have been benefitted from Pell grants, and I think most of them would be shocked to see this counted as welfare.

Pell grants, as you know, provide a critical financial aid to students attending college.

We will lose this opportunity if the United States sits on the sidelines while Panama continues to grow and implements trade agreements with our major competitors.

The consequences of such a plunge in our influence would extend not only the economic losses, but also the national security.