Speech

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee held a hearing today on small business entrepreneurs, the engine for American jobs, that emphasized how Congress can best help small businesses grow and hire.

"Leader Pelosi. 'Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentle lady for yielding, and I commend her for her enormous leadership, patience, and great intellect that she brings to bear on these issues.'"

“Thank you very much Madam Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him on his tremendous leadership as the Ranking Member on the Appropriations Committee."

“Over and over again we say that when we visit the memory of September 11th, we are treading on sacred ground. On that day, as we all know, 10 years ago, we witnessed a world that was changing before our very eyes, scenes of a horrific attack on our nation and our fellow Americans."

“When Congress worked with you to pass the omnibus veterans benefits bill last year - to provide support to veterans and caregivers - the American Legion said it ‘offers bold solutions to major challenges facing service members, veterans, and their families.'"

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding and, every chance I get, I want to salute him for his tremendous leadership as the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, for the work he did with Mr. Clyburn in the bipartisan talks as they strove to have what the American people want: a balanced, bipartisan, fair agreement to lift the debt ceiling and take America forward. Unfortunately, that did not happen."

“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I, too, want to join our colleagues in recognizing the contribution of the pages to the conduct of the House of Representatives. I thank them, and they have, as Mr. Kildee said and others have mentioned, born witness to many important historic occasions here. But I can't think of any that is more special and means so much to our country than to witness the return of our colleague, who was the personification of courage, of sincerity, of admiration throughout the country, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords brings us…"

“Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for joining us today. We are very honored to have very special guests, Brenda Kelley-Nelum from Woodbridge Virginia, she is a beneficiary of Medicare, but she has made such an enormous contribution, and she will tell you about that. And our other very important person is Sam Burnett. He is a Medicare beneficiary and a caregiver. He is from Toledo, Ohio, but he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland--so I had to tell you that."