Mr. Speaker, can I inquire how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 25 minutes remaining.

I'd like to thank the gentleman from California for those remarks. You've heard a little bit from the west coast. You heard a little bit from the heartland. Now we can hear a little bit from the east coast, the State of Pennsylvania, and…

Thank you, Mr. Cartwright, for continuing your fight for families in Pennsylvania and across the country. When I listen to Mr. Cartwright and I listen to Mr. Takano and I listen to speakers throughout the day from the Democratic side of…

54,000 jobs were saved or created just in the State of Wisconsin, thanks to those stimulus dollars.

if we can actually help to increase people getting to work and getting jobs and if they are paying taxes...

I think it is fair to say, too, that it reduced the unemployment rate during that period?

I think we can do both.

Speaker Boehner... offered them little more than the same stimulus policies that have failed to fix our economy.

I just think as we look at what we are talking about, you know, so often people talk about whether you raise taxes or you cut spending...

If the car is about to run out of oil, we put oil in the tank rather than let it completely grind to a grinding halt.

Sequestration is bad; it would cut the good along with the bad, the effective and the wasteful. It is irresponsible.