I look forward tonight in this next hour to discuss the Democratic small business agenda, one that I believe will really help to bring our country further out of the recession that we are now climbing out of. As our country struggles to…

It is a great freshman class. We have leaders in the great freshman class who will take us to that future and to the future that those students are looking forward to. I want to thank you all and all of my freshman colleagues who have…

I think it is just important for people to understand the issues are different for small businesses than large businesses, and our agenda, the things that we have been talking about tonight, I think, bring forward the fact that we realize…

I think that we need to make sure it is funded and funded in a way that our communities don't lose the funding if their States don't have the money. So I'm glad that you're working on that, and I appreciate your work in that area. I'm also…

Well, thank you. I thank the gentlelady from Ohio for leading this special hour today to talk about the importance of women in history, particularly pro-life women. I am just pleased that we can work together on this issue, one of which I…

Well, thank you. And again, thank you to my colleague Mrs. Schmidt from Ohio, who has been a good friend and is obviously a defender of women's rights and a defender of the rights of the unborn. And to all those who have joined us here…

March is Women's History Month, and this year will be the 90th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Yet after nine decades, the United States ranks only 74th out of 187 countries for the percentage of women in Federal…

In honor of Black History Month, I rise to celebrate the lives of two African Americans from Erie, Pennsylvania. Born in 1886, Harry T. Burleigh was a world-famous musician. Burleigh was the first African American composer acclaimed for…

My new legislation, the Military Families Job Continuity Act, offers a $500 tax credit to any military spouse who has to renew or transfer a professional license when a permanent change-of-station order takes their family across State…

I am deeply honored and equally saddened to stand here in tribute to our colleague and to my friend, the late Jack Murtha. From the first day that I stepped onto this floor, Jack Murtha was a friend, was a mentor. He welcomed me…

My colleagues on the other side have been asking where are the jobs? Well, I just came back from 2 weeks in Pennsylvania in my district, the Third District of Pennsylvania, and I can tell you there are jobs coming to my district, and I'm…

As a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, I'm proud to stand in support of statutory PAYGO. Pay-as-you-go legislation was a key factor, as we have heard, in delivering the budget surpluses of the 1990s. The Republican-controlled Congress…