I thank my dear friend and colleague Congressman Dicks. I rise in support of this conference report. This bill is welcome news and helps restore confidence that America can govern. It is essential to economic growth and job creation in our…

You raise a very good point, Congressman. And I went into one of these dollar stores--I won't say which name it was--with one of my good friends the other day. I couldn't find a non-Chinese-made item on the shelf.

I wanted to just comment obliquely here based on what you've been talking about. In looking at job creation in a given region, if I look at the regions that I've been privileged to represent, we have many small companies or medium-sized…

Congressman Garamendi, as you were talking, I was thinking about that chart that shows the flatness of income growth in the middle class, and I was thinking about the last several years and about our U.S. trade deficits. Most Americans…

I think everybody in our country knows that we all will have to sacrifice in order to pay down our long-term debt and that when we make public decisions that we help our economy grow. In every business I go into, they say, Marcy, bring me…

The problem is, when you have 100 people out there looking for a given job, it means 99 won't get it. And these are people who want to work. They have a record of working. They have actually collected their benefits. They've paid into the…

I want to thank Congressman Garamendi for, again, bringing us together to discuss the most important issue on the minds of the American people, and that is healing the economy here at home and producing a sufficient number of jobs to…

This year, again, I went to craft shows. I buy dozens and dozens of gifts. And I find locally made items because I know the money will go right in the pockets of local people. And why is it these craft shows, they hold them in churches…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time and rise this evening on the subject of MF Global and the clear need for oversight by the Congress. Mr. Speaker, Congress isn't doing its job to investigate the fraud that has infected our…

You know what, these large outfits that control retail sales in our country hurt innovation because what they do is they make deals with some of the biggest companies. Ask yourself, why, when you go through a supermarket and you want to…

Perfect. I just want to say a deep thanks to Congressman Garamendi for bringing us together tonight. I wanted to say as a member of the China Commission, we had testimony yesterday from various witnesses on the economy, on the legal…

Well, if you try to find different brands, you will see certain brands at eye level because they pay thousands of dollars to each grocery store to put it there. But if you want locally bottled soda, or pop, you are lucky if you can find it…