I urge you to move quickly and report this legislation for the sake of tribal communities everywhere.

Too much is at stake for us to simply pass our responsibility by opting for a mere extension of the current law.

When the economic downturn started during the last Administration, the President proposed a tax cut. Many of us, myself included, felt that the money might have been better spent in terms of putting it into infrastructure development.

Thank you. Thank you for organizing this today and for the advocacy that you do on behalf of not only your constituents but of all Americans. I would like to just associate myself with the words of my former colleague from the Rules…

I think we should do it with a vision toward improving our infrastructure and improving our future.

Mr. Speaker, traveling across my district, there is one thing I hear about again and again, and that is gas prices. Whether it is at the grocery store or at the gas pumps, Americans are feeling the crunch. Skyrocketing gas prices are…

I'd just like to read a quote today from The Washington Post on the FISA legislation that we are considering today. The article is entitled ``A Better Surveillance Law.'' I just want to read one excerpt from it: ``Congress shows it still…

people around America are talking about gas. That's all we hear. There is a difference, however. The people back home in upstate New York are talking about gas because they are frustrated with the high prices. Yet other people in this…

I guess I would have to respond in that since when does helping people who lost their job have anything to do with being a liberal or conservative? I think people, the American people, hear people in Congress cite statistics and studies as…

Madam Speaker, our economy is in trouble, and hardworking Americans across the country are bearing the weight of it. Times are especially tough for middle-class families. The labor market continues to deteriorate, the price of gasoline and…

NASA's accomplishments over the years have led to some of the greatest advances in human history. These scientific discoveries have led to everything from prolonging the average life span to improving the overall quality of life. NASA's…

I would just point out what this amendment does is it attempts to get the private sector more engaged by promoting within NASA the push to transfer not from the public sector, not to just have this go from the public sector to the…

Improving passenger rail service must be part of our long-term transportation strategy if we expect to effectively decrease our Nation's reliance on finite fossil fuels, and allow Americans to get to and from work on time without breaking…

today American families are paying the price for 7 years of failed economic policies by this administration. This year alone, our economy has lost more than 300,000 jobs. It's important to remember that in order to just keep up with the…

Reclaiming my time, it is not about drilling. That is what some people in this House want to talk about. It is not. It is about developing alternative energy. In my district, we are developing cellulosic ethanol. In my district, we are…

last week, Congress, with strong Democratic support, passed the new GI Bill, which provides all veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars the promise of a full 4-year college scholarship. The bill makes veterans a part of the American…

Mr. Speaker, over the next few years the renewable energy industry in the United States is poised to create hundreds of thousands of family wage jobs. But none of it will happen, and in fact we will lose jobs if we don't extend the…

This good bill will help us wean ourselves off fossil fuels. It will help us keep good-paying jobs in the energy industry, in the entertainment industry, and a great many other industries, and I urge support.

Some people in this institution tend to talk about trial lawyers and seem to want to point out the things that they do that they think aren't good. But no one talks about the fact that trial lawyers are out there representing people who…

we have sat here for the past hour and listened to so many speakers talk about energy, when the underlying bill is actually the Coast Guard reauthorization bill. But if our colleagues want to talk about energy, then I think we should point…

one point that I would like to make at this time is that the gentleman talks about oil and talks about energy, but the thing that he fails to point out is that gas and oil are limited, they are not going to be there forever. We need to…

This bill ensures that the Coast Guard will be there to ensure and protect the safety of our liquefied natural gas facilities that are built out in the deep water or out in the ocean. It's critical. Security is absolutely critical to these…

at a time of serious economic uncertainty, Democrats have passed a 2009 Democratic budget last month that invests in Federal programs that will boost our economy. In February, our economy shed 63,000 jobs in fields across-the-board. In…

I just want to assure him that I think I speak for the entire Democratic Caucus when I say that we share his concern for the safety of this country. However, when he speaks about things that just blatantly aren't true, for some reason, and…

as I said earlier, we must bring the misinformation campaign and partisan wrangling to an end. There is no question that there are groups and individuals out there who would seek to do America harm. There is no question that my colleagues…