I thank my esteemed colleague, Congressman Mike Michaud of Maine, for allowing me this time to join him and to rise in support of his motion to instruct conferees on a payroll tax cut extension bill that strikes a section that undermines…

Mr. Speaker, tonight the President will speak to America and the world in the annual State of the Union Address. I'm eager to hear his ideas about additional job creation because job creation must be America's number one priority. Back…

Mr. Speaker, my first reaction upon reading Dr. Gordon Gee's denigrating comments about the Polish Army was to see red--blood red. As a Polish American, I fail to see the humor when the president of The Ohio State University described…

Mr. Speaker, I want the 2.3 million unemployed Americans to know that not all Members of this House are heartless. In fact, 193 Members of this House stand with the unemployed of this country, the 2.3 million mothers and fathers who have…

Mr. Speaker, here we go again. Another phony crisis, courtesy of the extremist bah-humbug House Republicans. House Republicans have never met a deal they couldn't find a reason to dislike. Now they've resorted to fighting their colleagues…

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…

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…

I wanted to mention as you were talking, Congressman Garamendi, as a result of the refinancing of the U.S. automotive industry in northern Ohio--from Cleveland, Elyria, Lorain, Avon Lake, Sandusky, Toledo, Defiance, the whole…

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…