solving our budgetary challenges in a way that stimulates job creation and economic growth should be our number one priority.

If we are going to ask everyday hard-working Americans to sacrifice, then we must also ask millionaires and billionaires to sacrifice as well.

We cannot follow a budget formula that leaves seniors and veterans to fend for themselves.

In preparing for the fiscal year 2013 budget, I urge you to put politics aside and protect our promise to seniors, veterans and working families.

I thank Mr. Levin. As a cosponsor of this bill, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4105. In 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Commerce did not have the authority to impose countervailing duties on goods from…

Across America, farming is not just a source of food but a way of life.

If enacted the rule would equate agricultural labor with non-agricultural labor, something that makes no sense to anyone that has ever stepped foot in a rural community.

Over the past several weeks, we have heard a lot of rhetoric about how this House has passed so many jobs bills that are sitting in the Senate waiting for action. But I want to talk about one bill that actually passed the Senate, and it is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 10, line 26, insert ``, or the cumulative impact of any other rule stemming from the implementation of the…

I urge a ``yes'' vote on my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Critz). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I had prepared remarks that I was going to talk about to defeat this previous question so that we could bring the Chinese currency manipulation bill to the floor. But we've been…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I think the ranking member of Ways and Means really hit what the point of this is; that this is not against the two bills that are the underlying bills for this rule, but this is about jobs. And you…

I would like to insert into the Record a letter from the United Steelworkers in opposition to the Korea free trade agreement. United Steelworkers, June 20, 2011. Re oppose the free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia U.S…

I would like to insert into the Record a letter from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in opposition to the Korea free trade agreement. International Longshore & Warehouse Union, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 13, 2010. Hon. Nancy…

I appreciate the gentleman from Michigan for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership on this important issue. ``As the Chamber closest to the people, the House works best when it is allowed to work its will.'' Those aren't my words…

I thank the gentleman from Maine for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the Korea free trade agreement. I represent a manufacturing district, and we need trade policies that put American workers first. I've seen firsthand the…

I don't understand how it could take that long to get a permit issued for a coal mine that will probably operate for two years.

we represent the people of this country, so we have an obligation to the people to protect, to make sure where things are going, but we also have to look at the big picture.

Is this picking winners and losers? In other words, we are going to shut these plants down because of the sulfur that they emit.

It has become clear that in developing its recent greenhouse gas rules, the EPA did not follow the law.

We are going to condemn all those people that live close to those coal ash piles.

It is clear that the people of Colorado place a high value on protecting land, air and water.

it is essential that the Federal Government carefully balance the costs and benefits of environmental and land management regulations so that economic progress is not slowed.

Congressman Critz, with 10 percent unemployment, I fear you are not the only one who is going to be eating wiener schnitzel here if we don't get these burdensome regulations fixed and get our people here back to work.

Does it make sense to change the regulations for an entire industry because of one incident, or is it smarter to make the enforcement and the penalty for not following the current regulations make more sense?