And if you think about what the small business person who's suffered the brunt of these huge health care increases over the last decade or two, 120-some percent increase, I think, in the last 10 years for a small business person, their…

I have one point to make. Why are we talking about inequality and poor folks and upward mobility? The reason is we only have 313 million people in the United States. We're competing against 1.3 or 1.4 billion in China, and 1.3 or 1.4…

I would just like to say, we all say let the free market work and all of this. But when there's a savings and loan issue or there's a Wall Street collapse and a lot of very wealthy people in the country are going to lose a lot of money…

I want to thank the gentleman for making that a point. If you look at the United States as we compete against other Nordic countries, Australia and some other countries in Europe, we do not have the upward mobility. Meaning if you're born…

You make a good point. I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine who is a lot more conservative than me. We were talking about the government's role in these different things. He said, Well, what about the phone company and…

I know you and I are not going to defend wasteful government programs. They should go. We are now in a new economy that is information-based and very dynamic in so many ways, faster than anything that we've ever experienced in the country…

As you have talked about--and I know on other occasions--what are the investments we need to make today, not just in physical infrastructure, but in other things that will lead to the next generation of employment? The United States'…

You want to make sure that a lot of this stuff is not getting mixed together, and you want to make sure that it's separated, and you want to make sure that it's up to date. So these investments that a city or a municipality would…

Yes. I mean, one of the things I'd mentioned a couple times toward the end is the combined sewer systems in all major cities in the United States. So if you take a city like Akron or Youngstown--mid-sized cities in the industrial…

I want to thank the gentleman from California for being consistent in coming down to the House floor and always making sure that the issues of the day are brought to the American people, but also trying to persuade the House of…

To this date, the Administration has continued to try to thwart the lawsuit that has been filed by the Delphi salaried retirees, resisting requests for production of documents and discovery requests, and they have also resisted…

Without transparency, without justification, and in my opinion without respect for the men and women who dedicated years of service in earning their retirement benefits, the treatment of salaried retirees is particularly troubling in…