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Her story took me to a place I hadn't been in a long time. I'm talking about Natoma Canfield, the face of this debate, who's sitting in a hospital room at the Cleveland Clinic right now, with no insurance, getting blood transfusions for…
Well, I thank the gentleman from my adjoining district, the 17th Congressional District in Ohio. The 16th Congressional District of Ohio has had its share of people who are without health insurance. And in fact, nearly 39,000 people in my…
Well, these are exciting numbers. We have got to get people back to work. And I concur with the gentleman from Virginia. Let me revisit for just a moment exactly what the Recovery Act and the stimulus bill included. Thirty-seven percent of…
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Sorry for the confusion this evening. Tonight I am joined by several of my colleagues from around the country who want to talk to you about the economy and how we are working hard here in Congress to set the record…
It looks as if we stabilized the job losses in this country and started to grow them again after the Recovery Act was passed.
I agree with the gentleman from Virginia. We have seen almost a flip from a 6 percent job loss, when we began the 111th Congress in January of 2009, to nearly a 6 percent job growth in our gross domestic product. Yet we know that this is…
Well, Mr. Speaker, he is exactly right. The gentleman from Virginia is exactly right that we have got to invest in our people, in our country, in our way of life. As that contemporary commercial says on the airwaves, Is this going to be…
This means that the Afghan Government needs to be fully functional, standing on its own with an army and police force capable of defending the country, and sealing the border with Pakistan; an economy that provides its citizens with an…
I thank the gentlelady from California who made some very compelling arguments about why California needs to have this investment. While we are joined by several of my colleagues tonight, let me just say a little bit about what we are…
The gentleman from New Jersey has some very good ideas, which we have got to look at very seriously, about putting our country back to work and about long-term investments. You know, I have often said that we have got to be the producers…
As Chairman Berman has said, I am one of just a handful of Members who have served in Afghanistan. I remember serving on the ground there as I was deployed as a tactics officer in Operation Vigilant Sentinel. As a C-130 pilot, they sent…
Today, I rise in recognition of the Ohio Air National Guard, recently dispatched to Haiti to participate in the relief efforts after the devastating earthquake there. The 179th Airlift Wing of the National Guard was among the first units…
Today I rise in recognition of a fine businessman from Stark County, Ohio. His name is Rodney Napier. His service to the relief effort and helping those in Haiti who need long-term medical care as a result of the earthquake is a show of…
the American people have asked for common sense in their government, but all too often it is just not that common. You see, our friends on the other side have asked for simplicity, for substance, and for competition in the health care…
When President Barack Obama came to town, he brought hope and promise: hope that our best days were still ahead of us and that we would work together; promise that if we invested in our country and in our people, we could overcome any…
Today I rise in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the National Urban League, an organization dedicated to bettering the lives and protecting the rights of minority groups across our country. The National Urban League is the oldest…
While I believe that the taxpayers on Main Street should never again pay for the greed on Wall Street, we must ensure that any new regulations do not have unintended consequences on the CFTC's ability to do its job.
It is my opinion that the only thing that is preventing our country from producing robust alternative fuels and alternative energy is the energy that we invest in it.
I am baffled by the response and I am baffled by the lack of attentiveness to the recommendations that have been made from the NTSB to the FAA.
that was the most disingenuous campaign I have ever heard, to blame farmers and high commodity prices and corn ethanol on the increased food prices.
And so many, so many Ohioans--just like so many Americans--are one accident, one medical emergency, one diagnosis away from complete and utter bankruptcy. Yet we spend here in America, like Mr. Kennedy said, more than any other…
The lack of voluntary action by airlines for the past 10 years only underscores the absolute necessity of including the same passenger rights provisions.
Americans should not be held without food, water and other necessities when they set foot on an airplane.
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