Bart Stupak

It is just like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; it is up to the Secretary to approve it. Would the Federal Government and Federal employees operate it? No. Much like we did in the energy bill for nuclear. Let us put it up and build it…

Shall transmit the plan to Congress for establishment and operation of the strategic refinery reserve,'' lines 11 and 12. Again, he will submit his plan, whoever the Secretary is. They may have a different idea, but they must submit it to…

I am pleased to offer this motion to recommit with my friend and colleague from South Dakota (Ms. Herseth). Our motion instructs the Federal Government to crack down on price gouging and provides tough Federal penalties for those guilty of…

I am in its current form, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Motion to Recommit With Instructions Mr. Stupak moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3402 to the Committee…

the late Pope John Paul said, ``If globalization is ruled merely by the laws of the market applied to suit the powerful, the consequences cannot be but negative.'' I agree with the late Pope John Paul. Trade is more than just economics…

congressional Republicans unveiled their own Social Security privatization plan last week, stating repeatedly that their proposal would protect the Social Security trust fund. It is an interesting comment considering the fact that…

If my colleague would be so kind, and I appreciate our colleague, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Osborne), being down here to work with us on this issue. These local teams understand they are not just getting Federal money, and the…

But, you know, if CAFTA passes, there might as well not be an Upper Peninsula of Michigan just because we have lost so much. In fact, Michigan, right now our unemployment remains the highest in the State at about 7 percent. The small and…

in all due respect, I do not require any of that. I require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to do it; not the FDA, not the NIH, the Secretary of Health and Human Services. These agencies, Food and Drug Administration, NIH, are…

this does not require any new duties, none whatsoever. If the chairman would point that out to me, maybe we could have a discussion about it; but there are no new duties being required here. It does not require the drug companies to do…

if I may, I ask for the learned chairman to tell me where we are imposing a new duty on the FDA. What we are asking here is simply that the FDA follow the law; that they not use funds, as my colleague put it, for reprisals against…

But, Mr. Chairman, with all due respect, the FDA does make investigations under current law under their own administration. So how can you say they are not charged with the duty of doing investigations of their employees? They make that…