So you would expect the same labor standard, the same environmental standard for all the countries?

And you don't expect to see any exceptions or alternative approaches suggested for any individual countries?

I thank the gentleman. This proposal certainly does represent a visit from the ghost of Christmas past--last Christmas to be specific--when Republicans stood here and said only a lump of coal for the unemployed until you stuff every…

It is our pledge, because there's just too much at stake here. This Congress has been incredibly unproductive. You might think it had been unemployed for much of the past year. And we need to stay and complete the work. This is work that…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I still call you ``Mr. Chairman,'' though the formal leadership of the committee has changed with the change in the majority here in the House. And I guess if you were in fact still the chairman with full…

While this House does sometimes act in ways that border on the insane, applying this constitutional straitjacket is hardly the appropriate treatment. It basically imposes the tyranny of the minority. Two-fifths of the Members of this House…

I voted for a balanced budget. I voted for a balanced budget when I voted against launching an unnecessary war on borrowed money. I voted for a balanced budget when I voted to reject the distorted Republican theology that when the question…

As families gather this next week for Thanksgiving, some 6 million Americans will be left wondering whether they will be able to secure a job before their Federal unemployment coverage expires. They are people like Jesse, a retired Navy…

Congress should look for ways to support our Nation's most vulnerable children and families instead of painting a target on their backs in the name of deficit reduction.

And the objective that you mentioned in your opening statement of helping families deal with these great challenges that they encounter with a child or children with disabilities is a shared goal that we have.

I am against scams. I think everybody on this Committee is against scams.

On the other hand, when we have studied unemployment we have had some Members almost suggest that the main problem with unemployment is the unemployed and that they can be blamed for the situation.

To get SSI you also have to have a very severe disability, and the Congress in 1996 in the welfare legislation then upped the severity standard greatly.

However great our Nation's fiscal challenges may be, we ought not to balance the budget on the backs of disabled children.

SSI serves only low-income children with the most severe mental and physical impairments.

SSI assists families who are dealing with a child with a disability, physical, mental or both.

While this agreement, based upon the flawed framework of the Bush-Cheney administration, offers no model for the future with regard to workers or environmental protection, I am supporting today's measure because of a successful response to…

I thank the gentleman. We need a new, 21st-century trade policy that encourages more trade without encouraging a race to the bottom in conditions for our workers and in the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink. Trade…

And, really, if you look back over the decades through Republican administrations and Democratic administrations, when we have hit unemployment levels that are as high as they are today, have there usually been bipartisan efforts to extend…

Today in America the problem that we face is not the unemployed, but unemployment.

That doesn't seem to me to be a very creative way to address this problem.

I am thankful that it wasn't, because I think the unemployed need the assistance more in my state than Governor Perry needs their money to pay off state bonds.

Terminating unemployment assistance would hurt our nation's economy by further suppressing consumer demand and confidence.

And I know, as I said in my opening statement, there are those who want to blame the unemployed for unemployment. But aren't we in a circumstance today where there are more than four unemployed Americans available for every job opening?

With reference to the JOBS Act, my recollection is that the bill, though strongly urged in Committee and strongly opposed by me and others in Committee, was never brought by the House leadership to the House floor so that anything could be…