Madam Speaker, once again, Republicans in the House have put forward a budget that ends Medicare as we know it. This is an all- out Republican assault on Medicare and our Nation's middle class. Who benefits from this Republican budget…

Mr. Speaker, this week, the world laid to rest in the Egyptian desert a holy and wise spiritual giant, Pope Shenouda III, the 117th Pope of Alexandria and the patriarch of all Africa of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He passed on March 17…

I have a little difficulty with the amount of money being requested in this budget.

Mr. Speaker, first, I join with my female colleagues in supporting full health coverage for every single woman in our Nation. I also rise to condemn the actions of Syria's Assad government, which are truly appalling. America and this House…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to join my sisters in the State of Ohio--women elected officials, small business owners, women activists across our State--to speak out against attacks on the ability of women to get full health coverage in this…

It seems kind of unusual to me that production agriculture is doing very well in the countryside and yet what we leave urban dwellers with is stamps.

Mr. Speaker, I rise with great privilege to wish a very happy birthday that will come on February 23 to one of our most distinguished Members who served for so many years, Congressman Louis Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio. He will turn 87 on…

I'll tell you, Congressman, one thing we need to do is look at some of the people that sit over at the Justice Department and where they used to work before they got there, because I think one of the reasons that prosecution isn't…

The normal banking system isn't working, and what they're trying to do at the Federal level is to focus attention just on the secondary market activity rather than on the loan originators. So they're saying, Oh, the problem was at Fannie…

When that bill was passed, I would venture to say 99 percent of the Members of Congress didn't even know it was in there because it was buried in an omnibus appropriations bill. Nobody even knew it was in there. So that was sort of the…

They made the highest salaries in the country, bonuses. We didn't take a penny away. I had a bill to take 100 percent of the bonuses away. Guess what? They never bring it on the floor. We couldn't even take the bonuses away, much less…