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Isolating North Korea was the last thing the United States should do.

Mr. Speaker the purpose of H.R. 4944 has been explained by the majority and our colleague on the other side. This legislation is a result of a National Park Service study that worked with the local community on developing joint efforts to…

It will serve as the framework, both intentionally and unintentionally, for the future.

While I cannot predict the future, I believe that what we decide in this chamber this week will influence America's security and role in the world for the coming decades.

In authorizing the use of force against Iraq, we are at the beginning of a road that has no clear end.

I will admit to the gentleman, coming from the State of Nebraska, that I will have leanings towards securing, especially in a time when we are in a severe drought and I have already been told that for the State of Nebraska, from the…

H. Con. Res. 395 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Mindful of the spirited debate over Puerto Rico's political status, the resolution was crafted to be nonpartisan and status neutral…

I rise in support of H.R. 3971; and I want to commend the sponsors of this legislation, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Hastings), the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Nethercutt), the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Dunn), but also on…

Well, it is because of the opportunity that we have here in the House of Representatives, why I wanted to be here was to help families like them and the 58,000 like them in the Second Congressional District in Nebraska. Just think of the…

I think it is ironic that just today on the House floor we had a vote to require that this body, both Houses, a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds vote to raise taxes. I just think it is ironic that the practical…

Is the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) telling me that it is not a cost that we are going to hear about, how it is costing the government to give these families this relief?

$200,000 to $300,000, and even more if you go to some of the other equipment. A small family-owned printing company that I toured last summer when I was home, one printer runs hundreds of thousands of dollars, half a million dollars for a…

One of the other points, though, I want to make with that is the cost of the machinery. When we talk about our farms and ranches, we have a plant that manufactures farm equipment. The price of some of that equipment coming out is several…

I think it exemplifies why all three of us ran for this office and why we fight to come back every year, is to stop that type of mentality, which is 'we need more money, more money, more money.' So when we try and reduce spending here by…

The HMOs are not going to provide that type of benefit. They have pretty much said that. So as the gentleman has pointed out and others have pointed out, to provide it as sort of a program that has to be accessible, like access to HMOs…

I think it is common sense. I do not think we really have to provide specific numbers. I guess someone could probably do that for us, but it is just common sense, with years of dialysis and many hospitalizations in between, because…

I think our seniors are probably the most qualified to speak, and they have been speaking very loudly about this issue. The vouchers that Republicans are proposing for education will not help our children any more than vouchers for…

Just take hypertension and diabetes. This is something that affects all Americans, but it affects African Americans more so because we have more difficulty accessing care and medication. If we just take hypertension or diabetes, either…