I think we can applaud and encourage that success without maintaining a view that, because they are successful and they are big names, they are entitled to special treatment in the Tax Code not accorded to other businesses and individuals.

A system that accords General Electric a lower tax rate than the people that clean up the corporate board room at General Electric I think is really offensive.

Thirty companies have paid more to their lobbyists than to the United States Treasury in taxes.

If we have a system that says to a company that is looking to invest in either San Antonio, Texas, or South Africa or Europe or Asia that if they invest abroad they will pay nothing on the earnings from that investment but if they invest…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of young DREAMers: young people brought as children without proper documentation to this country; young people willing to work hard to share in the American Dream; young people who have so much to offer…

Thank you to my colleague from California, who has ties directly to San Antonio and appreciates the importance of this legislation. I do rise in support of the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park Boundary Expansion Act, a measure…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Patients' Rights Repeal Act. Like a broken record repeating the same old, scratchy, sad verse, these Republicans cannot stop repeating their record of indifference to the health care crisis…

Let me just affirm that Social Security is not adding to the debt to begin with.

I want to be open to all points of view. My main objection here... is clearly a limitation on the growth of Social Security benefits.

The park is important to the understanding of Texas, and really, of the development of the United States.

H.R. 885 is a bill that would expand the boundary of the park, as shown on the map, by 137 acres.