I rise in strong support of H. Res. 1107. I would like to begin by thanking my good friend and ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Ms. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, for her leadership in introducing this important resolution which…

I want to congratulate our colleague from California (Ms. Chu) for her leadership on this issue. I was in Mexico just about 1 year ago, and clearly the unfolding violence is something that ought to be of great concern to every American. It…

I congratulate Greece on her 189th anniversary of independence. Greece has long been a close ally to the United States and rightly so, given that our founding fathers formulated the American political philosophy from the Greek ideals that…

Since it began in 2007, the Great Recession has caused tremendous hardships throughout the Nation. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, in increasingly larger numbers every month, including 741,000 in January 2009 alone. Our economy…

I would hope that part of your mission is to turn that around.

The lead development agency, as far as I am concerned, in the United States Government has to be USAID.

As the mid-Atlantic region continues to dig out from historic winter snowstorms, it reminds us of our efforts to continue to dig out of the Great Recession. The snow finally stopped falling, yet it has taken us a long time to get back to…

Cybersecurity, Mr. Chairman, has been a growing concern, and recent events like the attack on Google and the hacking of Web sites maintained by Members of this very Chamber in the House highlight the urgency of today's action. As you know…

The time for fiscal responsibility is now. Unfortunately, budget deficits are not a new phenomenon. We had budget deficits in 74 of the past 100 years. In fiscal year 1969, under Lyndon Johnson, we had a budget surplus of $3.2 billion…

Although we did not create the deficit, we have a moral responsibility to address long-term deficits.

It is important to note that we did not invent the concept of a budget deficit.

The unspent and repaid TARP funds represent the single largest opportunity for deficit reduction in our nation's history.

This year, 24 Republicans joined us in fiscal responsibility.

I rise in support of this resolution, expressing my condolences on the situation in Haiti and praising Fairfax County's urban search and rescue team that is in Haiti, 80-strong plus, and having saved a number of lives already. In the…

Many on the other side of the aisle recently have taken the position that deficits are a bad thing, while simultaneously ignoring the significant contributions of their own actions to increase the national debt.

I rise today to recognize Mariamu Stanford, a young woman from Tanzania, who epitomizes the essence of bravery. I rise to shine a light on the untold horrors she and others with albinism faced, and continue to face, in East Africa. I rise…

I was very heartened to hear you say that, in your paper, since you have gone to Brookings, you call for a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.

It was done at the price of political support in the other body. Because, as Ms. DeLauro pointed out, not a single member of that minority party here in this body was even willing to talk about the legislation.

I am worried about the fraying of the safety net at the state and local level.

So it is not entirely arbitrary.

I think it probably would.

Does that seem a rational concern on our part to you?

So the private sector, the free market, in fact, had failed, is that correct?

Does the public have any interest at all in wanting to see some kind of rational compensation limits in a company it has bailed out, the biggest in its history?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing on a subject that is so important to the American public and to American public health.