Today's victory for health care reform and coverage for 32 million Americans is not just the culmination of 15 months of hard work in this Congress. It represents the historic accomplishments sought by Presidents and Members of Congress…

Today we have an historic opportunity, more than a century after President Teddy Roosevelt first raised this subject, to establish the foundation for health care reform. We have some of finest health care in the world, but for too many…

I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy in permitting me to speak on this rule, and for his unequivocal call for being realistic about some of the outrageous things that we've heard on the floor. I just heard my friend from Texas talk about…

For those who can afford it, they have some of the best health care in the world. But Americans, overall, by any objective measure of performance, like life expectancy, or how soon babies die, we don't perform very well. And increasingly…

I would conclude by just saying that I do appreciate the rapid response of the committee, the bipartisan support, to honor the generosity of Americans in both these tragedies, to clean up the legislation and move it forward. But I hope…

This has been a particularly difficult period of time for all of us as we witnessed the victims of these two enormous tragedies attempt to repair the devastation that resulted from two of the largest earthquakes that we have seen in recent…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for his courtesy in permitting me to speak on this. I continue to have profound reservations about our troop commitments, first in Iraq and more recently with President Obama's decision to escalate…

I appreciate the courtesy of my friend, the gentleman from North Carolina, in permitting me to speak on this. This piece of legislation is, sadly, a product of our time with a breakdown with our friends on the other side of the Capitol…

The bill includes $77 billion of transportation funding. That was my reference. I think the experts agree that it would be hundreds of thousands of jobs, if not 1 million, saved or created with that transportation funding. I appreciate the…

What I said, and I want to be clear if I misrepresented it, is that the $77 billion in transportation funding will protect or create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That's what I said.

Thank you. I appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to follow my dear friend from Ohio with whom I look forward to the day when we can come to this floor and we can deal with a broad-based…

It's kind of ironic that our friend from California got up and talked about why we don't do what Ronald Reagan and President Kennedy would have done. We've done that. We've cut taxes. We cut taxes several times before that. In fact, his…