I thank you so much. I stuck around just because I wanted to hear more about your Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act. I think that is a great concept. I look forward to reading it. It is the way and the direction that we ought to be going…

Thank you, Congressman Griffin, I do. I agreed with what you had to say and wholeheartedly support your concepts and where we need to be moving this country. Let me say to each and every one of you that the American worker is second to…

Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, February 23, Virginia and our Nation lost a true hero. Sergeant T.J. Conrad was killed in action in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan in the rioting there. Sergeant Conrad, just 22 years old, was a husband, a…

You said that Wall Street backed it, but I can guarantee you, Main Street didn't back it. Main Street had problems with it. I feel personal about this because as a young lawyer right out of law school, I took some risks. I had to go to the…

And they know, and we talk about the money issue. You talked about that, and you're absolutely right. They know that if we create a regulatory environment that's conducive to creation of jobs--not no regulations, but conducive to creating…

Absolutely. I would have to say we do a much better job here. It's almost like I can remember when I was much younger, liberals always said to conservatives, Well, you all act like the United States is the only country in the world, and we…

We need to look at the whole world situation and make sure that we are not destroying American jobs.

I think every statistic shows that, and I pick up Mr. McKinley's chart and he showed you the coal power plants that are closing down.

the United States has got a job problem, if you all haven't figured that out by now, and that we shouldn't be piling on regulations that are killing jobs.

But you understand that there's always a trade-off, and that sometimes it is--you know, you can't make the world perfect.

One of the problems that we have in my area where we have lost a lot of jobs is that even if we accept some of the policies of Dr. Bivens, the people who are gaining are not Americans.