What I have heard today is, I think, even more outrageous than I recollect in terms of what is being done to military personnel, particularly now in a time of war.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I'm proud to join him and my other colleague from Wisconsin tonight to talk about jobs and what we are doing here in this Chamber on that issue. I listen many times to my colleagues from the other…

I appreciate my colleague from Arkansas, my great friend, for yielding to me. Just to add a comment. When my colleague from Wisconsin spoke and my colleague just mentioned when we talk about the Forgotten 15, now 16, we've got to be clear…

Just to conclude on this point. Now is not the time for our President to divide this country. We have had bipartisan support on these bills here in the House. I know it hasn't been reported on by the press. But that's the fact. Now, what…

I appreciate that. And what a great comment. That's exactly what I'm trying to articulate. I join my colleague and associate myself with those words, that we need a true plan that will solve this problem. And the $14.8 trillion in debt is…

We might be sort of captives of our history.

today I am introducing legislation for the creation of the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, along with my colleagues from Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Senators Whitehouse, Kerry, and Scott Brown. Our…

I wish to join Chairman Levin in his plea that we be allowed to consider this legislation. The greatest crisis we face in the United States, for families all across the country, is jobs. The President has proposed a bill that is going to…

since World War II the United States has traded away American jobs in the name of foreign policy by entering into bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. With a 9.1 percent national unemployment rate, 14 million Americans looking for…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I rise today in strong support of the three pending agreements before this great body. This is a great day. This is a great day for America in the sense that we have before us an opportunity to create 250,000 jobs…

today I introduce the Effective Teaching and Leading Act to foster the development of highly skilled and effective educators. We are working towards reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act--ESEA--this Congress for the…

part of the FSOC's mission is to understand systemic risk, to try to anticipate growing risk.

as a cosponsor, I rise today in strong support of the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act. This is a bipartisan effort that will protect U.S. manufacturers from economic harm caused by unfair and damaging currency manipulation…

I would just regret immensely if that nomination was not moved with deliberate speed.

Until, from my view, until we stabilize housing prices, begin to deal with the foreclosure issues, we are not going to have the foundation.

The housing market is instrikibly and inevitably linked to our progress as a Nation economically in growth.

If we cannot effectively sort of deploy these regulations in a timely way, it seems to me the only stopgap for the uncertainty is increased capital levels.

Well, we need the nomination so then we can go along with the confirmation process.

I am still trying to get my hands around good old-fashioned derivatives.

We have to think beyond the traditional, and we have to do this.

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas for yielding and for setting up this leadership hour for us to have this important conversation. I would say to all of my colleagues, it doesn't take a whiz kid to figure out that we're on the wrong path…

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas. And I simply wanted to end this conversation with, as I get ready to leave and as our colleague from Kansas has joined us--I think the gentlelady from Alabama said it best. We came here as a new breed…

Get things done. And we can do that. That's why I was so pleased that our colleague from Michigan joined us today. Even though we may disagree on many things, there is common ground there. He recognized that lower taxes creates a business…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I rise today, even though feeling a little bit under the weather with an obvious cold, to show my support for these free trade agreements, because we have worked hard from day one in this Congress to be a…

I am pleased to be joined today by Senator Hutchison in the introduction of the Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2011. The population of survivors of childhood cancer has grown…