So why do we have that standard that appears to apply to bankers?

So is that a you can't handle the truth?

When things like a cooling tower fall down and the reaction on the part of the company that runs it is that it's not really a big deal, that doesn't provide great assurance to the people of Vermont.

I don't think that Congress is the place to go to resolve this.

safety is my concern. And I know that safety is your concern, but I just have a few questions that caused me some concern about how active and aggressive the Commission is on coming to a conclusion about some safety standards.

I regret, obviously, that we're here. This is not a personnel committee, and it is regrettable that there is this conflict at the senior level of the Commissioners.

if something can go wrong, even when we think it won't, it probably at some point will go wrong and that's what we saw in Japan.

when we have a nuclear power plant that the cooling tower collapses and we're told not to worry about it, that's hard to be comfortable.

I am going to be introducing legislation that does trigger debarment proceedings for contractors that are convicted of violating the bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

If it were as easy as writing a check and having the police force in Iraq and Afghanistan be established, it would be no problem.

A lot of the situations that you are uncovering just reflect the impossible expectations oftentimes that Congress has.

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, on August 28 of this August, Hurricane Irene left a path of destruction from the Carolinas to Vermont. The districts of 55 of our colleagues were hit and hit hard. And that storm did damage without…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 275, noes 142, not voting 16, as follows: [Roll No. 791] AYES--275 Adams…

Order 1000 really gave the flexibility to the regions, and I want to emphasize this one more time.

Costs may not be involuntarily allocated to entities that do not receive benefits.

There still has to be a benefit-to-cost ratio that exists before you can charge for it.

I would never support something to be allocated to the customers that I am entrusted to serve that they didn't get benefits from.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate the subsequent sections, and conform…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Vermont will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas

We have an ongoing debate in this Congress about regulation. My friends on the Republican side believe we have too much. Those of us on the Democratic side think we need careful regulation. We shouldn't have too much, but we shouldn't…

In this legislation there are findings. It is common in our legislation for there to be a finding section. This amendment would propose a finding for inclusion in this important legislation, and that finding would read that ``Congress…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate the subsequent sections, and conform…

I, first of all, wish to associate myself with the remarks of Mr. Duncan, Mr. Jones, and Mr. McGovern, who spoke earlier; and I intend to address the issue of the war in Afghanistan. This war has got to end. It's got to end because it's…

We have two problems in this economy: One is, we have a long-term deficit that requires long-term solutions. Second, we have an immediate crisis of high unemployment. We have 23 million Americans who are out of work full time or out of…

I seek to offer the amendment of Mr. Rush of Illinois as his designee. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: In section 2(b)(3), insert ``and the Deputy Secretary of Labor''…