this bill is not burden-free. This is who bears the burden: 36,000 to 50,000 individuals who took a deduction for carried interest, less than two-hundredths of a percent of the taxpaying population, and what was their combined income in…

let me make two points, if I can, about this agreement tonight. Almost everyone on the Democratic side of this Chamber has at some point in time in the last 7 years had some point to decry the Bush administration's tendencies toward…

I've listened to a lot of allegations, Mr. Speaker, that the Democratic Party, the party that crafted Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid, is somehow cutting health care benefits. I don't want this debate to end without putting a few…

there's a pastor back home who has a card that he carries around with him and it says, made by God, return to the Creator upon expiration. As a person of faith, if you believe that, as I do, you have to believe that that admonition and…

I will vote today for a resolution that would finally draw the war in Iraq to a close, and that would for the first time put conditions of self-determination on the Iraqi government that has benefited from our country's generosity. While I…

And there is a reason for this consensus, Mr. Speaker. There is broad agreement on several things in this House. There is broad agreement that we have been caught in the cross-hairs of a civil war between two sets of radical Islamist…

We are saving $14 billion in United States taxpayer dollars. That is an important change in values in this institution because the last Congress, when they wanted to save money, here is how they did it. They decided we will save $8 billion…

Prior to the conception of the HOPE VI program, we tended to believe that public housing was a condition that was not alterable, it was not changeable; and, similarly, we believed that it would look pretty much as it did when a public…

Permission to speak out of turn, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Alabama is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I wish my colleagues from Georgia understood something very fundamental about this Voting Rights Act. It is not a burden on the South. It is not some scourge or tool of oppression against the South. It has been a liberator for people…

Mr. Norwood said some things change in 25 years, and he is right about it. One thing that has not changed in 25 years is that people say one thing and have a different agenda. We have heard all day that we are opposed to unfunded mandates…

it is interesting. I have a button on my television that, if you click it, you can convert everything that you hear to Spanish so that people can hear American Idol and Desperate Housewives, and my English-only friends on the other side…

this is a very simple issue. We have ongoing litigation in the courts. There are hearings being held. There is discovery being conducted. And most of us who have conservative impulses on both sides of the aisle think the Constitution means…

this has been one of those periodic weeks where a lot of people in the country turn on the television and they look at this institution and they wonder if we live in another world. They see us, or at least one of us, going down the hallway…

let me follow up on what my friend from Ohio just said. This PAYGO rule you talk about, we call it PAYGO for various reasons. Really, it is the be-like-the-American-family rule. Every family I know, yours, mine, every other one, has to…

a number of us believe that there is no finer orator in the House than my friend from Indiana who runs the Republican Study Committee. I wish he were still here because I was struck by some words he used. He said that this was the toughest…

It is still a tax cut, and it would yield approximately $2.6 billion, enough to recoup the Medicaid cuts. And I make that point, Mr. Ford, simply because last night we heard the President tell us that we are all bound together in this long…

In 10 seconds, for the 13 million families who will have to pay more money for health care, that is a cut. Because that is less money they can use on food that now they are having to use on health care. And these are the poorest people in…

I thank Mr. Conyers for yielding to me. Mr. Conyers, you mentioned that I was born in Montgomery. Coretta Scott King was born in Marion, which is in the heart of my Congressional District. I am honored to stand here today as the person who…

let me touch on the point the gentlewoman just made about faith. All of us were told different things and were given dictates by our faith. But one very universal view across all denominations that we know is this idea that you do not…

I absolutely concur with that point. There are two points that we will have to make constantly over the next 48 hours. This is not just about altruism. I wish that we could convince our friends and colleagues on the other side of the aisle…

I thank you for letting me claim the time for my colleague, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), who I trust will join us tonight. Mr. Speaker, several of my colleagues have gathered to honor an individual who was one of the…

If that is the Chair's ruling, I would ask, without prejudice, permission to address it now, based on the absence of other people being on the floor. I would ask unanimous consent to address it now. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair would ask, is…

I am, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Alabama? There was no objection. Amendment Offered by Mr. Davis of Alabama