Here we are with 1,100 pages. 1,100 pages that not one member of this body has read. Not one.

Here we are with 1,100 pages. Eleven-hundred pages that not one member of this body has read. Not one.

Today, earlier, President Obama held a town hall meeting in Fort Meyer, Florida. He discussed the need to create more jobs for Florida families and families across our country. This has been one of our shared goals since the outset of this…

I want to thank the Speaker and thank my colleagues who are here today to congratulate Miami University on their 200th anniversary. I have nine Miami grads that work for me on my staff. Clearly, you heard from Mr. Ryan, and Mr. Driehaus…

President Obama said from the outset that we need a bipartisan plan that creates jobs first and foremost. House Republicans are prepared to work with our new President on a plan that does just that. Why? Because Americans are looking for…

I think our members enjoyed the conversation. I think the president enjoyed the conversation.

How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives, how does that stimulate the economy?

We expressed our concerns about some of the spending that's being proposed in the House bill and the fact that it doesn't spend out very quickly.

We begin this new Congress at a great time of challenge for the American people. This winter, working families are struggling to pay their bills and keep their homes; small businesses are being forced to choose between cutting jobs and…

It's being paid for by our kids and grandkids. And so while we want to get the economy moving again, the overall size and how we craft this is going to be very important.

When this bill passes today, remember those words, in God we trust, because we're going to need help.

When this bill passes today, remember these words. 'In God We Trust' because we're going to need his help.

None of us came here to have to vote for this mud sandwich. I can describe it a lot of different ways. You all know how awful it is. I didn't come here to do this.

It's about saving our economy. It's about protecting the Americans' jobs, and protecting their retirement, their security, their savings, their college loans, and frankly, their way of life.

America cannot afford to have a pre-9/11 mentality when it comes to national security. I think that's why this bill is so critical and why Members and staff have been working so hard to craft it. I recognize the serious threat that we…

It's not often that on a major bill that with as much controversy as we've had with this bill that we can come together and work as a Congress on both sides of the aisle and come to a compromise. The gentleman from Wisconsin outlined the…

this quote from Daniel Webster appears above the Speaker's rostrum right up at the top of the Chamber. And it says this: ``Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great…

Most of my colleagues know that I opposed the farm bill when it originally came up, and I opposed it because it was filled with earmarks. There was a $250 million earmark for a ranch in Montana, there was an earmark for $170 million for…

Reclaiming my time, we may have transported to the President a portion of the bill that passed the House and Senate, but we did not send to the President, apparently, the farm bill conference report as passed by the House and the Senate. I…

I'm proud to have introduced this legislation which marks the 35th anniversary of Operation Homecoming, and honors all Americans held prisoner of war in Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, the first wave of the longest held POWs from Vietnam…

At some point, the majority has an obligation to treat the minority with respect. It is not happening, and that's why we're going to continue to wage this fight to be heard on this floor and represent nearly half of the American people…

Mr. Speaker, it's my honor to join Speaker Pelosi in celebrating the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. This is just the first opportunity for us to honor the foundation of the Jewish State leading up to its anniversary on May 14…

My colleagues, several years ago when the current Speaker, Speaker Pelosi, had my job as the minority leader, she said that bills should generally come to the floor under a fair and open process with amendments allowed and substitutes…

This economic growth package is an important victory for middle-class American families and small businesses. With the rising costs of energy, health care, college, housing and taxes, we put a real strain on the family budget. But the…

I think that we have done our job as best as we can do it.