Madam Speaker, with last year's important health insurance reform law, we provided real guarantees to American families against insurance monopoly abuses. Today, Republicans tell these families, ``Forget the binding guarantees. We have 12…

Our middle-class families are threatened not only from the challenges of government, but from the big pharmaceutical monopolies that charge our people more than anyplace in the world, from the giant insurance monopolies. And sometimes…

Let it be remembered that Congress began this debate on whether or not to reduce corporate tax revenues... how much more America will borrow from the Chinese

Mr. Speaker, the choice here is whether to give more money to insurance monopolies or to leave just a little bit in the pockets of middle class Americans. But for House Republicans, always putting insurance companies first seems to be a…

Our energetic and talented colleague Gabby Giffords was doing what she does so well, the core responsibility of every Member: listening to her constituents in an open public forum. Young and old, Americans of all political philosophies…

If you're hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dread disease, your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. No insurance monopoly should stand…

Mr. Speaker, on day one of this new Congress, these Republicans take a giant step backwards. They profess such great concern about their ability to cut wasteful spending. First off, they abandon pay-as-you-go budgeting, returning to the…

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, in this dealing-making, it became more important to get a deal--any deal--than to secure an agreement that reflects our American values and accomplishes our goal of renewed economic growth. This bill is largely a…

``Moment of Truth'' is the very appropriately entitled report of the President's bipartisan deficit commission, since it took barely a moment for him to cut a deal with Senate Republicans that spikes our national debt upwards almost a…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks on this legislation and insert extraneous material herein. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6398) to require the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to fully insure Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of…