Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate the opinions of our friends across the aisle and those who have spoken here tonight, and I know we both have similar goals--get people back to work. But when I hear my colleague across the aisle say…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 59 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, October 14, 2011, at 9 a.m. ____________________

it seems like really we have degenerated into a Third World country where it is all about who you know.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here today, and I certainly appreciate my friends enlightening the Chamber and those that may be prone to listening. I want to add a little bit to the enlightenment, as we've…

I think that a balanced budget amendment makes sense, I think tells you where I stand on it.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know my friend from the Virgin Islands and I have differences on political issues, but she was very gracious to me personally and I will always be grateful, very grateful. Thank you. We do differ on some of the…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 34 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at 10 a.m. for…

I absolutely do. Actually in September of 2005... I think we could pass a bill that would amend Social Security.

I would sure like to have those seniors living on more than $800 a month.

I really don't know the answer to this question. But the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913...

Mr. Speaker, we're going into recess for a week. We passed a bill to keep the government running. Some of us were concerned that we were compromising with ourselves, but supposedly it was a bill that, though we compromised with ourselves…