No, you're making great points. And I think those are points the American people understand, that the American Dream is you work hard, you sacrifice, you take risk, you accumulate wealth, you make profit, and you want to pass it along to…

Yeah. And the fact is, and it seems like he's embraced, he's figured out who those job creators are. I mean, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they'll be the first to, and I'm sure when we get into, more into this debate…

Well, I thank my good friend for dusting that chart off and bringing it out tonight. I think we need to reproduce that and get that in every one of the 435 offices because, you know, I've tried to lead my life by principles, and one of…

In 2008, the President and the House of Representatives lifted the 24-year-old moratorium on offshore oil and gas production on most of our Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Back in March, President Obama pushed for offshore oil drilling in the…

Sure. Just real briefly, you had a chart there that showed a lot of different spending schemes, health care, IMF bailout, the bank bailout, the omnibus. We're talking billions of dollars are being spent and all in the name of supposedly…

Last week the Democrats brought back the death tax. This calendar year, there has been no estate tax, and I guess in some ways it was the year to die. But on January 1, because of the actions of the House Democrats, the death tax roars…

The Small Business Administration's chief counsel for advocacy, Winslow Sargeant, testified today in the Senate that the form 1099 requirement of the health care bill should be repealed. As a cosponsor of H.R. 5141, a bill by Congressman…

Next week will mark the 8-month anniversary of the new health care law. When we started this debate almost 2 years ago, I relied on my longtime experience in the medical field to come up with four principles that I strongly believe should…

Today I rise to give credit to a coach who has just reached the milestone of a 400th career win. It was almost 2 months ago when the Penn State field hockey team shut out Temple University 4-0. They were coached by Charlene Morett, the…

Every minute, three people are diagnosed with diabetes. Every day, almost 200 people undergo an amputation because of the disease. Fifty people go blind and one hundred thirty people enter end-stage kidney disease programs. If current…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Concurrent Resolution 329, which recognizes the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA. Thirty-five years ago, President Gerald Ford…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1652, expressing support for designation of the month of October 2010 as National Principals Month. Anyone who has visited a successful school or who has watched their children…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1654, expressing support for the designation of the week of April 11, 2011, as ``Undergraduate Research Week.'' Almost 600 colleges and universities in the United States offer…

There is a thief abroad in this country stealing the cognitive powers of more than 5.3 million Americans. It costs $172 billion annually, but the money is not the true loss. The loss is a son who can still take his father to a ball game…

September 17 is Constitution Day. On that day in 1787, the Constitutional Convention met for the first time in Philadelphia to sign the document. It was then sent to 13 States to ratify. In a speech to the Senate in 1850, Henry Clay said…

There are more than a dozen countries in this world that restrict freedom of religion, including Iran and China. Imagine being told your religion was unacceptable and being carted off to jail for offering a Bible to someone. This is not an…

On Monday, the members of the Penn State women's volleyball and the men's and women's fencing national championship teams were honored by the White House. They were two of the more than 30 National Collegiate Athletic Association national…

Thank you. Duty to country. The decision I'm going to make, is it according to the Constitution? Duty to others. Is the decision I'm going to make as a Member of Congress today in this job, you know, how does is it impact the people that I…

I want to take a moment to talk about an important key member of the Scouting team, and that is sponsoring organizations, from all over. Every Scouting unit has a community partner called a sponsoring organization. And they are churches…

Well, I thank my good friend. You know, I think the statistic is one out of every three persons has had some experience with Scouting, with Boy Scouting. They've been Boy Scouts or they've been parents of a Scout or they've had a sibling…

What a nightmare this is. I spent 28 years managing a rural hospital, and what I see there, when I look at that chart is not the periodic table. I see bankruptcy for hospitals, physicians, health care providers. I mean, my health care…

Well, I thank my good friend. And I want to come back to one word I think that really describes what is suppressing jobs, what is killing jobs, what is keeping jobs from being created. And that is uncertainty. Uncertainty is the direct…

I thank my good friend for coordinating this hour tonight, very important hour. This is about real solutions, not the types of policies we've seen over these past 19 months which has grown the size of government--bloated the size of…

Well, I appreciate being yielded to by a fellow Eagle Scout. It truly is an honor and a privilege to be here this evening to recognize an organization that has for 100 years, for an entire century, served this Nation through serving the…

I rise this evening to mark a number of very important anniversaries and celebrations within my congressional district. First, today I rise to honor the compassionate work that goes on in the nearly 100-year-old Children's Aid Society…