Thank you. I appreciate my friend, Mr. Nunnelee's, effort in recognizing the role that America has had in fostering the greatest building block any society has ever known--marriage, plain and simple. I was blessed to have had two parents…

Mr. Speaker, well, this has been a good day legislatively in the United States House of Representatives, and there are a lot of good things to be said about what's happened today. Yesterday, there was a wonderful event; it's called the…

Mr. Speaker, I understand the concerns of my friend across the aisle, but I'm telling you, this is a great day for Congress, for America. Going back to 1974, the most liberal Congress in America until the time when Speaker Pelosi took the…

Mr. Speaker, it's wonderful to hear so many of not just colleagues but friends here on the floor discussing what is so important to this Nation--responsibility. And if you want to talk fiscal responsibility, it would certainly seem that…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 40 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, February 3, 2012, at 9 a.m. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 44 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 10 a.m. for…

Mr. Speaker, it's an honor to be here before you tonight. There's so much going on in this country, so many threats to our national security, and energy is one of them. I am so proud to be a Member of Congress with the freshmen that I have…

Mr. Speaker, there are consequences of not having a budget. One of them is you don't make proper plans. How else can you explain the Obama administration going so long and crying so loudly, Gee, we can't find $10 billion to cut, much less…

Mr. Speaker, it's a privilege to be speaking on the floor here this evening. Here we've been talking for some time about the huge deficit spending that's going on. In fact, Republicans have promised to make massive cuts. And the old story…

Mr. Speaker, it's sometimes hard to reconcile the speeches we hear here on the floor with the legislation that we've passed. People have been speaking from the other side of the aisle here for the last 30 minutes about how the Republicans…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the comments of my colleague from Texas, my sister in faith. I know we get carried away sometimes in worrying about different bills. There's a lot to be concerned about. But looking at our Nation's…