Madam Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 30 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 10 a.m. for…

Mr. Speaker, it is such an honor to serve with such an honorable man as Colonel Allen West. I've known him for a few years, going back to his previous efforts at election to the House of Representatives. I'm just delighted that he is here…

Hopefully we can get the EPA to stop the hysteria until they have some science to support them.

But so far it seems that the real revolution is in those who are cronies who get hundreds of millions of dollars, only to go bankrupt.

Mr. Speaker, happy Valentine's Day to you. Thank you for this time. There is so much going on. We have had in recent days the testimony of the director of CBO, Congressional Budget Office, making projections. We've had the White House…

Would it have made more sense, in your estimation, to propose rules after you got the study on exactly what effect hydraulic fracking was having?

We know from the Deepwater Horizon fiasco that there were--we had testimony from a former employee, was head of the BLM at the time, that the only real check and balance with regard to offshore inspectors was to send them out in pairs so…

There has been an analogy that if the entire ANWR area were considered the size of a football field, that the area proposed for drilling is around the size of a postage stamp.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o'clock and 56 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 9 a.m…

Mr. Speaker, I come tonight deeply troubled about the situation in the Middle East, as so many people are, and also about the response of this country to our dear friend, Israel. It has been quite interesting to see as Iran comes ever…

I think it would make the United States very happy to see that, it would make people of Afghanistan very happy that the Taliban was no longer being provided weapons to inflict harm on them.