U.S. State Attorneys General

I have heard that some of these information resellers have some of the worst practices around.

I agree with every word you said about the subject that is up today, identity theft.

While we may have different views on the importance of Social Security benefits for today's seniors and future retirees, we are united in our concern about identity theft.

Let me urge this subcommittee to show the same diligence and thoroughness in examining some other critical issues.

This subcommittee is deeply concerned about this particular problem.

With your help, it will.

I am here to ask for your support of the East-West Center, which, although located in Hawaii, has international programs and, in fact, they have programs in most of the Members' States.

It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid.

In my book, clean air and the health of the American people trump profits for polluters every time. I urge my colleagues to vote against this rule and against this bill.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Hawaii will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The Acting…

I would like to close by reiterating once again that I think it is interesting that the FAA chooses to focus on the causes of cockpit smoke. Frankly, if there is smoke in the cockpit, I don't know that we need to be focusing that much on…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. In view of the fact that you are in agreement with my amendment, if you would be so kind as to yield a minute of your time to my colleague, Colleen Hanabusa, so she may submit her remarks on this amendment.

I want to thank Subcommittee Chair Petri and Mr. Mica for accepting my amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.

We are a week away from a government shutdown where this House has been unable to reconcile its differences with the President.

It appears to be a document that was prepared without the committee staff's full participation.

If you are going to get to forgo having to pay those taxes that an otherwise established enterprise has to pay, we should make sure that the public is getting some benefit for it.

Because as we have served on this subcommittee in the past, that has been one issue I have raised quite often, with regard to the non-profit, charitable world, is are they, in fact, providing a service, a public good, that pays for the…

I also want to make sure I emphasize again something else you said, because there is a need to dispel this rumor, this myth floating out there, that the money that IRS needs to try to implement this new patient's bill of rights is somehow…

The budget bill that was passed by this House, H.R. 1, by the Republican majority a few weeks back, would cut $600 million out of your budget, which you said would cost us in revenues, because of lower tax collections--proper and…

There was no direction in the budget bill that cuts the $600 million as to how you could do it in a way that would not undermine services.

The more we do private sector investment, the more we see productivity increases for our workers, the better things will be.

I hope everyone will agree that we should have those who really partied during the first decade of the 21st century and made the deficits that we have today pay for their sins.

One quick way, simply by removing the tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts for the top 1 percent of American earners, the wealthiest 1 percent.

So to now hear that some people believe we have to cut benefits for Social Security for our seniors who are receiving Social Security in order to balance the budget, we have to wonder what is going on?