Thank you, Mr. Scott. I too have, as Mr. King said, enormous respect for the Ethics Committee. It's a job that none of us ask for and none of us want, but it has to be done to protect the House of Representatives. As a lawyer, I also…

This resolution goes hand in glove with the one that we just took up. It commends the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Last year when we visited the NATO School in Oberammergau, we went then to the Marshall Center…

This resolution commending the NATO School for its critical efforts to promote peace, stability and security is something long overdue, in my opinion. Last year, I had the honor of participating in a visit of the bipartisan House…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, want to express my appreciation for this resolution. I am proud to be a cosponsor. After this event happened, this unprovoked attack by the North on the island, my son and I communicated with a good friend…

I want to thank Mr. Capuano and Members of the House Sudan Caucus for introducing this resolution to remind us of the important work that needs to be done to implement the final stages of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the…

On August 5, 2010, the San Jose copper-gold mine in Copiapo, Chile collapsed, leaving 33 miners trapped 2,300 feet underground. As of today, they have been there for 55 days. The Chilean President has made the rescue of these stranded…

On August 5, 2010, 10 unarmed humanitarian aid workers affiliated with the International Assistance Mission... were brutally killed in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. There were six Americans among the murdered aid workers. These brave…

Mr. Speaker, on September 14, 1960, President Eisenhower signed legislation into law, creating real estate investment trusts. House Resolution 1595 celebrates the 50th anniversary of REITs, as they are called, and the enhanced…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess this probably symbolizes as much as anything what's wrong with Congress. Here are people who get up and say this is a good bill that's good for job creation in this country, it had been bipartisan for 30…

I rise today in support of H. Res. 1337 to acknowledge the difficulties facing many Tennesseans as a result of the severe weather that struck our area recently. Sadly, the storms that hit our area took seven lives in the 19 counties that…

I consider this a sad day for our institution here when a Member comes to the floor and, by name, calls other Members to task for an unsubstantiated, untrue, fabricated allegation made in a blog somewhere and stands behind the fact that it…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, if we were in Afghanistan by ourselves, perhaps this debate would be worthwhile, but the fact is we are not. I am presently serving as the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. The Afghan…

If you look at all of the former Warsaw Pact countries that are now members of NATO, we are in a conflict that is global in nature. NATO is evolving from a static, land-based defense force to a security force that relieves our men and…

You know, if we accept that everything that everybody has said on both sides of the aisle is true, that is still not, in my view, a good financial reason to vote against this bill. It may be a good political reason, but it is not a good…

This Sunday, Ukrainians will go to the polls to elect a new President. The successful conduct of these elections is important to our country, the United States. As Vice President Biden said during his visit to Kiev last summer, ``we…

We believe that having such a systematic approach to oversight enshrined in the Rules of the House would greatly enhance Congressional oversight of executive agencies' programs and functions. As you may know, POGO is a non-partisan…

What we are attempting to do is to reestablish congressional oversight. Congress authorizes and appropriates money, but we don't actually spend it. So when we are asking the administration, whoever it may be, Democrat, Republican, whoever…

I think I speak for a lot of us when we say that we welcome an intellectually honest debate on the issues that we are charged with confronting on behalf of the American people. And a discussion about the pros and cons of the provisions of…

when these people say they're going to provide the resources for the war and for the veterans but they're not going to pay for it, what they're really saying is China is going to provide the resources to our veterans; China is going to…

And we're going to provide resources? No, we're not going to provide any resources for these veterans unless you vote for this bill. What you're doing is we're going to ask China and Japan to give the resources to our veterans. I think…

we have seen, as Mr. Boyd pointed out, an unprecedented amount of borrowing take place since 2001. No political leadership in this country has borrowed as much money as quickly as we have seen over the last 80 months or so. That's just…

Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the Federal response to the tornados that occurred in Tennessee. I left here early last week and went down to my district in west and middle Tennessee to view, with the Governor of our State and others, the…

this rule embodies a fundamental principle of responsible stewardship of this country, and that is to live within our means and pay our bills. There are some folks around here who apparently don't believe the laws of arithmetic apply past…

The PAYGO rule, as we have here now as Mr. Ross pointed out, is basically what all of us do in our private lives. We live within our means. We pay our bills, and we hope we have some left to invest in the future. This government has done…