I yield myself 1 minute. Mr. Speaker, Members of this House are talking about cutting $100 billion from the budget. Well, we can trim the Federal budget of more than $100 billion in out-of-control spending. Members have been very concerned…

I would like to include in the Record an article on AlterNet by Tom Engelhardt which discusses the open-ended nature of the Afghanistan war. How To Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date (By Tom Engelhardt) Going, going…

I would like to insert into the Record a report from the United Nations that says that 2010 was the worst year for civilian casualties in Afghanistan with nearly 3,000 civilians killed. Afghanistan--Annual Report on Protection of Civilians…

I yield myself 2 minutes. In the next 2 hours, we are going to demonstrate that the American people oppose this war by a margin of two to one. I will enter into the Record this Washington Post poll that was published on March 15 which says…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. We keep coming back to 9/11. We're near the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11, and which was predicated on a lie, no weapons of mass destruction. The…

We need to go back to basic principles here. In 1934, when the Federal Communications Act was passed, people were given broadcast licenses to serve in the public interest, convenience, and necessity. The public owns the airwaves. In a…

May I ask, Mr. Speaker, how much time each group has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida controls 22 minutes; the gentleman from Ohio controls 22 minutes; the gentleman from California controls 9\1/2\ minutes…

And my friends on both sides of the aisle, we could very easily come up with money to save this program if we would just put a windfall profits tax on the oil companies. I'm here today to point out the critical importance of the…

Congress heard from General Petraeus today that significant progress is being made in Afghanistan. We've heard that before. Military and civilian leaders have for years told lawmakers and the public that we're making progress in…

I yield for the purpose of making a unanimous consent request to the gentleman from Arizona. (Mr. PASTOR of Arizona asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

It is a very strange Congress. At a time when Wall Street has been bailed out, banks have been bailed out--and banks were bailed out who kicked people out of their homes, now the programs that have been created to help keep people in their…

I do not believe that the insurance companies, in and of themselves, are the problem.

the new health care law comes at a time when both employers and families are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing increases in their health care costs.

What power did you have to negotiate with your insurance company when you increasingly saw your health care costs increase during the last years?

And also, I ask unanimous consent to submit for the record a report from the Commonwealth Fund entitled, 'Seeing Red: The Growing Burden of Medical Bills and Debt Faced by U.S. Families,' where it points out that an estimated 72 million…

I want to thank my friend, Chairman Roe, for calling this hearing.

Today, a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress have introduced a privileged resolution calling for a vote in this Congress to end the war in Afghanistan. More than 60 percent of the American people want us out of there. This war is…

I have heard witnesses, the other witnesses say that they think that employers will increasingly stop offering health care to employees as a result of this law.

This study, by the way, is done by a group of physicians from Harvard, and Ph.D.s from Harvard and Ohio University, who found that using a conservative definition, 62.1 percent of all bankruptcies in 2007 were medical.

Well, you are telling us that EPA regulations actually create jobs and support industry.

There is nobody--we want job-creating opportunities. We want you all to be successful.

I want to state for the record, there is a longstanding precedent in Congress of putting administration witnesses first on their own panel.

I also know that regulations are creating jobs and the regulations are saving lives.

We want our people to have good health. We want people to be able to have safe jobs.

I think the President is right. I think he hit the right balance.