This Congress is making no distinctions in its zeal to slash and threatening institutions along the way.

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side, America does have a national security interest in protecting American citizens from terrorist attack. But the question before us is this: Is that national security…

I thank the gentlelady. There are really two questions that this bill raises. The first: Is this a way to deal with the serious problem we have in this country, which is the deficit? And the answer is: It isn't. I salute the Republicans in…

To my Republican colleagues, when you say that we have a fiscal house to get in order, you're right; but when your plan is to focus 100 percent of your firepower on 12 percent of the budget, I say you are designing a plan that will fail…

Representative Cummings has been the leader in Congress in focusing attention on what the impacts are in neighborhoods.

I stand here today to discuss the Yellow Ribbon Program, which is critical in my home State of Vermont, but it's critical in every State that has returning soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq. In Vermont, we have recently welcomed home…

I am pro-choice. But that is a question of deep conscience, religious conviction, and of personal importance to every individual and every family. One of the great conservatives who has served in this institution was Henry Hyde. The Hyde…

Merchants have literally no power individually to be able to negotiate a price.

It has been informative for me to listen to everybody because I go back to the basic proposition that the debit cards and the credit cards are really essential for commerce.

I thank the gentlelady from Colorado. Three points. Number one, any regulations that aren't doing their job, they're imposing excessive burdens, let's change them. I agree with that. The President agrees with that. You're arguing that…

One is to make certain that the hedging a benefit is absolutely available at the least possible costs.

There was a total lack of regulation. They didn't have any margin requirements, and it led to outsize risk taking.

Right, so what steps would we need to take in order to protect, in effect, not just the taxpayers who ended up having to bail them out, but a lot of main street businesses that needed stability in the credit markets?

I have a lot of community bankers who are very upset about some of the regulatory impacts of Dodd-Frank.

I believe the CFTC is the right place to determine whether that manipulation has taken place.

So that market has to be protected, and we have already seen that we have severe problems in the market.

And our concern also is with the industry itself, the industry that has become so dominated by just four large packers that now control over 80 percent of all the fed steer and heifer slaughter.

I think the exchange went to great lengths to try to change the terms of the cotton contract last year because a lot of people were concerned that the cotton market wasn't working properly.

The goal here is to try to get the regulation right.

I thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker, about a year ago, I got a call from Donna, a mother who lives in Plainfield, Vermont, and this was her story: She has a son who had his first job. It paid like 9 bucks an hour and it came with no…

We appreciate the time for this Special Order of 1 hour to discuss the repeal of health care. And this legislation which passed today is the triumph of the Republican victory in the elections. And the Republicans ran on a campaign platform…

The good news is businesses, large businesses and small, that have fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and to their employees have sharp pencils and figure out what makes the most sense for them, and they're signing up for this…

I thank the gentlewoman from California. The story that Congresswoman Eshoo told is making very real what the consequences are of taking away from families benefits that they have and now depend on. Just a quick story about Vermont, to…

I want to thank the member from New York. You talked very eloquently about preexisting conditions. And who of us doesn't have one? There was an article in The Washington Post today that said about 65 percent of Americans have preexisting…

I mean, the point is that, if you want to improve something, you know, that's our job. Let's do it. There are provisions that all of us who supported this bill know could be improved; but we are hearing now real-world stories about things…