Can you imagine that the Democratic leadership in the United States Congress has given the largest tax cut to middle class America? Well, that is certainly not the narrative that you hear out there on the television shows and some of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It looks as if we stabilized the job losses in this country and started to grow them again after the Recovery Act was passed.

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…

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…

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…

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…