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commissioner hall, and have a spirit of ar as opposed to hope. i have chosen hope. when i think about from whence we come, and the chart here tells the story very clearly back in january 2009, we were in deep trouble. president obama came in with a patient, our economic system, which was in deep trouble and was in intensive care. he tk that situation and turned it around. i do not know how many people have been in intensive care, but it takes time to heal. and i do believe our country has come a long way. is it where we wanted to be? no. i wish that we could wave a magic wand and the folks to come to me on a daily basis in my district, the ones who are saying they cannot find jobs i wish they could find them. but the fact still remains that we have come a long way, and we do have a long way to go. i have often said that in these hearings, when we hear our jobs reports on a monthly basis, the question becomes so often when do we root for the home team. when do we ack ....
growth a higher risk of things not improving quickly. thank you very much. mr. brady. this recovery certainly is not consistent with the recovery of 81 and 82, where job growth and unemployment was three times better than the obama recovery. i will take comfort in telling our workers and small businesses in the gulf coast, who will lose their jobs and are losing their jobs and losing their businesses, due to the drilling moratorium, that they are a small price to pay for this over reactionary and politically advantageous policy-making here in washington. what is frustrating, i think, is that this democrat congress has had control over mms, that oversees the gulf, for three years. they have done nothing to reform it. the obama administration themselves approved british petroleum s operational waivers on the well. the approved the cleanup plans which have turned out to be awful. they have failed to support our gulf coast governors and local communities in protec ....
all such settlements are unlawful. the bill sets forth the criteria that a court may use to determine whether to uphold a settlement. however the validity of the underlying patent is not one of those specified criteria. also the bill dramatically reduces the ability of companies to settle these cases. if the parties cannot agree on a date of entry into the market, then in many cases they would effectively be forced to litigate the case. this means that the entry of the generic into a particular drug market could be clayed delayed significantly. the majority of federal courts including the second 11th and d.c. circuit have upheld the validity of these settlements. congress should uphold a well-reasoned judgment of these courts. innovative new drugs, after all, are created in the laboratory, not in the courtroom. i urge my colleagues to reject this attempt to legislate an unrelated domestic issue on a bill that is intended to pay for our troops overseas. mr. speaker, i ....