We are doing a lot of work through the administration on creating new materials and composite materials.

I think we should be rewarding employees as much as we need them, because we cannot afford to lose them.

I support his interest and concern about what we are going to do relative to planetary science and Mars.

This is a serious issue. And as a scientist, you will appreciate that on the one hand scientists want to have broad interactions around inventions and new ideas and new approaches in the scientific community.

I want to commend you for that.

Let me thank the gentleman for yielding. And in this Christmas season, let me wish all of my colleagues a merry Christmas and a happy Chanukah. And for our country, there is good news. It has just been reported that unemployment has…

I thank the gentleman and I thank the House. There is a time, a place, and a season for everything. I would argue to the House that this is not the time for us to be playing around with the financial fortunes of 160 million Americans that…

Since this is the Thanksgiving season, maybe rather than denigrating the inheritance of a child born in our country, we can celebrate it. The truth is not that as a young American you are born with all this debt. What you're born into is…

I thank the ranking member, I thank the chairman of the full committee, and, most importantly, I thank my colleague, Chairman Frank Wolf. We've had an opportunity to work through the issues on this bill, and he has afforded every courtesy…

I thank the gentleman from Washington State, who's the ranking member on the Appropriations Committee, and I thank our chairman, Chairman Rogers. I'm very pleased that we are having a motion to instruct and that actually we're moving…

I recently visited a Boeing facility in Philadelphia where 2 years ago only 4,000 people were working. Today there are 6,000. They have three shifts working each day. They have a weekend shift on Saturdays and Sundays. They are working…

If we could have a vote to provide disaster relief, every Member in this Chamber would cast a vote in the affirmative. What we're asked to make tonight is a Solomon-like choice between tens of thousands of jobs for Americans who…

I assume that some think that the American people are gullible, but this is not a coincidence or happenstance. We've got a Republican majority that took us from trillions in surplus to trillions in deficit, added a $7 trillion prescription…

Members speak with so much certainty about these things. It's not what we know that's the problem. It's what we know that just isn't so. Now, first and foremost, when we look at the Constitution of the United States, and we look at article…

Let me thank the ranking member, the gentleman from Washington, and let me thank the chairman. I have had the opportunity to work with Chairman Wolf on the Commerce, Science, Justice activities contained in this CR. I think…

Let me wish everyone a happy St. Patty's Day. It is unfortunate that we have so much effort here in the House to recite the problem rather than to focus on solutions. We hear this discussion about our national debt. We have these paltry…

Well, this was started under a Republican Governor, Governor Thornburgh. I introduced this as a young State legislator with no gray hair, and it has worked very well in the State of Pennsylvania. I offered it here in this Chamber. In 2007…

We heard just the other day in this Chamber the leader of our great ally Australia talk about the greatness of our Nation and how it is the belief that we can achieve anything. This lack of confidence illustrated in the rhetoric here on…

I think by working with the Corps over the years a lot has been done.

I am all for returning to the time in which Congress would exert some authority in these matters.

One, this is a budget-neutral reorganization of NOAA. Two, a third of our gross domestic product requires accurate information in terms of climate and weather conditions. And the third and most important point, this reorganization, this…

This is a budget-neutral reorganization that will allow private business to get data that NOAA has already collected. That's all it is. It's critically important information for those businesses. And a third of our gross domestic product…

I think that is a reasonable thing to think about whether or not we would want to have a notification to our government if someone was buying large quantities of assault weapons, especially along the border, which many, many of our…

48 hours ago, two officials of the United States Government, ICE agents, were attacked. They were in an armed vehicle which was traveling south of the border. One of those agents died. The assault weapons used in this incident, like tens…

During the campaign season, there was a meeting with the Wall Street barons by the leaders of the other side. They promised them exactly this: that they were going to essentially go back to an unregulated system. It almost bankrupted the…