Jim McDermott actually said...

If I can get one other question here, the inflated figure he uses, this huge number, God, it just blows your socks off.

Expressing disbelief at the high figures related to welfare costs.

04/04/2011

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He believed that the Speaker was the Speaker for the whole House, and he lived that to his very core.

A huge amount of what happens in our innovation and our research and development, R&D as it is called, is from the Federal Government.

He led the House with fairness and comity, a style of leadership we haven't seen.

But the real damage of the sequester is that it affects the long-term investments in research that this country does.