Glenn English: “If you had credits for nuclear power, why, we could raise the capital to build nuclear plants like France has done...”

I could never have conceived of such a thing. And the fact that Kiwash Electric, my home electric cooperative in Oklahoma, could ever be considered a swaps dealer or in danger of being labeled as a swaps dealer I thought was nuts.

No Member of Congress should be asked to vote for a bill that would require them to take allowances away from their own constituents.

I rise tonight without any messianic pretensions to urge my colleagues to cast a vote for our seniors and support improved health care by voting for this bipartisan Medicare bill. Mr. Speaker, today we have the best, and perhaps the last…

That is fairness, that is what is right, and I think that is what most citizens in this country expect to be done.