Last week I visited with seniors who live at Wilfred Manor in Central Falls, Rhode Island. They asked me to deliver a message when I returned to Washington: The time for fighting over health care reform has ended. Now our elected officials…

Our most pressing legislative items were nowhere to be seen on the House floor today. We had an opportunity to make headway on critical legislation, but Republicans have not provided action or solutions, only obstruction and delay. Student…

Today, as our Nation recognizes National Police Week, I rise to honor Sergeant Maxwell Dorley of the Providence Police Department. Sergeant Dorley is a hero to the city of Providence, a city he gave his life protecting last month. Sergeant…

I thank the gentleman. We are also considering amendment 118 in this bloc. This amendment would require that, before providing reimbursement to Pakistan for its efforts in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, the Secretary of Defense…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of two amendments I am offering in this bloc, both of which seek to ensure Pakistan demonstrates its commitment to counterterrorism operations and the dismantling of…

Yesterday, this Chamber narrowly passed a bill entitled the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. But although the bill we voted on shared its name with landmark legislation that this Chamber passed in 1994 to deter crimes against…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 5, line 17, strike ``grants'' and insert ``grants, including grants authorized under section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler…

In an effort to drive innovation and regional collaboration, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 mandated the creation of a Regional Innovation Program within the Economic Development Administration. This program is intended…

Unless Congress acts, millions of students will see their student loan interest rates double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1 of this year. This issue is important to students, parents, teachers, and businesses all across my home…

I want to thank the gentlelady for yielding. I want to say that the gentlelady from the District of Columbia is right, Georgetown Law School is very expensive. I too had student loans to go to law school and worked two jobs also as a…

I thank my colleague, Ms. Edwards, for having this conversation this evening and to say how important it is for me and the residents of my State, the State of Rhode Island. Rhode Island is, of course, the home of the great Senator…

Mr. Courtney, I was just wondering. You talked about how the interest rate was cut in half by the prior Congress, which was obviously very important for young people and for families, and how the Stafford Act was created and named after…

I thank the gentleman from Connecticut for his extraordinary leadership on this issue, which is important to Rhode Island, but really important to students all across our country. I think one of the things that has struck me during this…

I just want to say that I think one of the things that we sort of recognize and are very proud of as Americans is that we have always revered our system of higher education and that we have always understood that people's ability to access…

I hope that what you're speaking about, kind of the young people of our country, not just the students, but the families of students who are affected--I was at a Portuguese social club recently, and a woman constituent of mine, a single…

I too want to thank the gentleman from Connecticut, and I hope that we will all do everything we can to keep this issue alive over the next 73 days. As you said, Joe, it's not something that has a complicated answer. We can fix it. You…

I want to speak in strong support of the amendment and thank the gentlelady from California for raising this really important issue.

We ought to be prepared to be sure that that community has this information in their language as well.

There is a special role that new immigrants or immigrants to this country often who do not speak English, particularly who speak Spanish, are playing in job creation.

What we are really asking is what is best for our country in these early years?

I think it is important in this discussion to recognize that by suggesting that this amendment, which would require that this information be provided to people in Spanish, does not mean every document, including airplane manuals or every…

It makes no sense, I urge the committee to fully fund it.

We need to make certain that whatever resources are required to implement that program...

As of this past January, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island stood at an unacceptable high 10.9 percent.

We cannot and we must not balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable.