Could I ask how much time each side has remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio has 30\1/2\ minutes, while the gentleman from Michigan has 9 minutes.

With that, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Schock), a distinguished member of the Ways and Means Committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The President said throughout the debate of health care and since, if you like what you have, you can keep it. Employers have told us that's simply not true. The President said, throughout the debate and since on…

Many employers have reassured me that the pension stabilization language included in the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012 will allow them to invest more to create jobs and will prohibit a reduction in their workforce. I hope…

This debate is in many ways surreal-- surreal. I learned in Civics 101 that the House is a coequal branch to the Senate. Members on the other side say, well, this is a compromise. It's a compromise in the Senate, not the House. The House…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the underlying bill today, which goes a long way toward job creation. Jobs, jobs, jobs. We heard about that in the November election. We heard about the fact that small business…

What an honor and privilege it is to be a Member of this House, and what an amazement it is to me to hear this debate that I have heard so much in the past. The road to prosperity is not through tax increases. The road to prosperity in…

Madam Speaker, as was just said, regulated investment companies, better known as mutual funds to most Americans and to us, are intended to provide individual investors the ability to invest easily and with low cost in a diversified pool of…

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee as well for being here on the floor to recognize that 50 years ago, in fact, this week, President Eisenhower signed into law legislation that created real estate investment trusts, or REITs, as the…

Just last week, back in central Ohio, as we were home during the Memorial Day recess week, I convened a meeting--and I'm a former Realtor, a recovering Realtor. We had real estate folks on the commercial real estate side. We had small…

Well, I thank the gentleman from northeastern Ohio and the Cleveland suburbs in Lake County for organizing this hour today, and I think you've really hit on some of the important points. When you kind of go back over a year ago when the…

Well, I thank the gentleman for yielding on this matter and for bringing this up because we've spent a lot of hours on issues right behind you that are not life-or-death issues. Just a couple weeks ago, we spent less than an hour on an…