What my statement was or should have been was that the scientific research is very different showing the detrimental effects of urban dust versus rural dust.

Well, Representative Shimkus, if I could say one thing that Representative Waxman continued to say over and over is that dust is not currently regulated, and it is.

The very last thing that our struggling economy needs is new costs and regulatory burdens on farmers and small businesses across rural America.

My bill is a bipartisan approach to ending the EPA's regulation of farm dust in rural America while still maintaining the protections of the Clean Air Act to the public health and welfare.

Thank you, and I thank the gentlelady for yielding to me today. I certainly appreciate it. Mr. Speaker, I rise today not only as a proud Republican woman as well, as my good colleague from Kansas said, but also as a wife and as a mother…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of this amendment that is offered by the gentleman from Texas. The B-1 bomber is the workhorse of our long-range bomber fleet and has been flying missions over Iraq…

I appreciate that. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to join my fellow female colleagues and Members on this side of the aisle to highlight exactly what it means to be a Republican woman. Mr. Speaker, I grew up in a family that didn't…

I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, we talk a lot on the House floor recently about agriculture and about the fact that agriculture needs a haircut and that people are concerned about agriculture getting too many benefits…

Woman, we have important things to discuss, and it truly does deal with our values. As the previous speaker was talking about his grandchild that was on the House floor previously, I wondered if he had told the grandchild that from the…

I introduced this commonsense bill on April 15th of this year with my colleagues, Representative Robert Hurt, Larry Kissell and Leonard Boswell, because of the regulatory uncertainty that is facing rural America.

I appreciate that, and thank the gentleman for yielding to me. I am one of the new Members of Congress that has first come here tonight, this is the first opportunity I have had to give a Special Order. And I cannot think of a better…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, we have spent the last 3 months debating the need to get spending under control, and it's a good thing. That's why my constituents sent me here, and that's what I plan to continue to do. But…

On rollcall No. 177, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

It is an honor to be from a state that hosts what has become an international symbol of American democracy and freedom.

What is the National Parks plan to address the pine beetle problem?

So while the current lands are struggling with issues like the pine beetle situation at Mt. Rushmore, it seems that it would be wise to make sure that our current lands are taken care of and maintenance is taken care of, before we try to…

Collective bargaining agreements can be a tool to drive student achievement.

I have been appalled to see thousands of dollars of grants go toward studying things such as the California adult tiger salamander.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I have seen how critical infrastructure such as rural water projects can benefit and develop rural communities.

I offer this amendment because I'm concerned about an EPA rule on the National Primary or Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards that would make the standard for the amount of coarse particulate matter in the air more stringent. Last…

So, you know, the President's budget has been in the headlines over the past several days.

I will tell you that specifically we recognize that what we need to do to create jobs in this country is provide certainty, tax certainty, and, right here in this resolution, certainty that we are being clear, that we are going to address…

I am from the State of South Dakota, which obviously is a wonderful State, but very cold this time of year.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the first time on the floor of the United States House of Representatives to make a case for a very important piece of legislation, namely H.R. 2, the health care repeal bill. Mr. Speaker, there are a…