Today is a great day for small businesses in the United States. The small Business Lending Act we are voting on today will give $12 billion in tax relief to small businesses and increase access to capital through community banks. These $12…

Laura was a healthy 41-year-old woman when she spent 5 weeks working at Ground Zero in the months following 9/11. Now she has an incurable cancer and two tumors. She has had numerous cancerous lesions removed from her mouth and her…

Most people understand that we have a real tangible need for the safety nets of Social Security and Medicare. The hard lessons of history compelled us to create protections for our seniors who have given us a lifetime of hard work and…

Last week I attended the Big Butler Fair in Butler County and the Grange Fair in Mercer County in western Pennsylvania, and what was the number one question my constituents asked? "What are you doing about the deficit?" I visited senior…

One of the great things about my part of Pennsylvania, and I really think Pennsylvania in general--I have to be a bit biased here--but we have a great ethic and we have people with great skills. We have been a manufacturing-based economy…

And what I find most exciting about this recovery that we are in is that we are making things again. And it's already been talked about tonight. But we are making things in America again. For the 11th consecutive month, the manufacturing…

It is with a heavy heart that I rise today to honor the lives of two fallen heroes from western Pennsylvania. Sergeant First Class Robert Fike of Conneautville, and Staff Sergeant Bryan Hoover of Lyndora, Pennsylvania, made the ultimate…

I would like to thank Congressman Dingell for hosting this special hour this evening where we can pay tribute to an outstanding leader, businessman and champion of organized labor, Mr. Ron Gettelfinger. I came to Congress with the promise…

You talked about other people weighing in with some of these surveys, and I just wanted to mention a few things that have been in the news just in the last week. We have Melanie Holmes, the vice president of Manpower, Incorporated, who…

Well, thank you. I thank the gentleman from New York, a fellow freshman who has been a good friend of mine since I came to this House. I also want to thank Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for bringing us all together tonight. It is…

Each month the numbers come in, and the signs are clear: Our economy is growing in the United States. Consumers agree. Consumer confidence rose to the highest level in more than 2 years this month. I believe our economy is on the rebound…