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This is a debt tax, what happens when you do deficit spending. Deficits do matter. Under the last 7 years of Republican leadership with these tax cuts that have gone principally to very wealthy people, this is what happens. You have…

It is $29,000 per person. A child born today is born with a birth tax of $29,000 he or she will owe.

We are going to provide middle-class Americans with these targeted tax cuts, targeted tax relief; and, as you mentioned before, Mr. Doggett, we are also going to be able to balance the budget in 5 years and have a surplus by 2012.

My question is, how does this deal stand in the light of this new spirit of accountability? This deal that would say, yes, White House aides can come in, no going on the record, no under oath, no transcript, behind closed doors, how does…

If a prosecutor, a minister of justice, is required to make sure he doesn't step on any toes of the administration or a particular political power or to make sure that he is not supposed to offend a particular party and if such a…

Let me throw my whole-hearted support behind this amendment. I think it is a clear expression of the generosity, the common sense and the decency of our country, and I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for offering this amendment. The…

Many us believe that there is no place on this Earth like the National Mall that we have here in Washington, D.C. If anyone from Mars were to come and ask what is it like to be an American, I would send them directly to the National Mall…

I can't claim that I was surprised. But, you know, the fact is, is that people are going to express various points of view. You know, I just keep saying that we have got to come together as a country, and that diversity is a great strength…

We can't say that we are going to be intolerant, when that's what the terrorists say.

Mr. President, before I make some comments on the amendment, No. 2623, which we discussed Thursday, listening to the Senator's comments about the so-called gun show loopholes and the point of contact, I might ask, what if a person goes to…

With a plunger? Please. I don't think any human being, no matter what you accuse them of, deserves to be stuck with a plunger in their rectum. It's just beyond the pale, and it's torture.

We believe that the people involved should be held accountable. We believe that the city needs to take changes to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

Today I am introducing the Indian Technical Corrections Act of 2003 to provide routine and noncontroversial amendments to Federal statutes affecting Indian tribes and Indian people. The vast majority of these amendments were included in…

For those who may not know what LULAC is, it is the League of United Latin American Citizens. It is the oldest civil rights organization representing Hispanics nationwide in the country.

I will work with the Senator from Washington, my ranking member, and the Customs Service to achieve this important goal. We must work hard to plug the security holes that exist, and this is one we should fix.

I also agree that securing our Nation's ports and points of entry is critical to protecting our citizens.

I feel it is again important for us to support our military and pass H.R. 5557. During these times when we depend on our men and women in uniform to perform the highest levels of service, and we place them in harm's way, and I need not…

I support a motion to table the Dodd amendment. Let me say at the outset, though, that no one questions Senator Dodd's commitment to the Indian people of America. He has an exemplary voting record, and he has always been there when we…

I, too, rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 213, regarding North Korean refugees in China. It appears that we continue to see the numbers grow of North Koreans who are fleeing their country, many of whom have ended up in China.

The further point where the gentleman from Indiana misstates what is current law and what I said, we base it because the Supreme Court has said, not on what the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) believes is reasonable or what I believe…

What this legislation does, it removes the objective person's standard of what is reasonable under the Constitution, and says what is subjectively reasonable. So that if the officer said, well, I believed I was reasonable in going after…

Exactly the point. We don't know the problems that will be created, and that is why I think it is wrong to move forward with this bill with this section in it until we have had some really in-depth hearings as to how it would affect water…

I think this is a question that probably should have been fully debated, with some kind of a hearing, and not attached to this bill. The Senator from Montana, Mr. Burns, mentioned what we often call the law of unintended consequences. That…

Mr. Speaker, H. Con. Res. 77 is a resolution that I authored in conjunction with the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) for the express purpose of expressing our country and our government's firm support for family reunification…