James Hill

That would be one of our concerns, Congressman Garrett, that you would have someone regulating insurance who really has no real insurance background.

I can remember at the time how elated I was because, as a Blue Dog who believes in pay-as-you-go rules, the predictions that we were all making in our campaigns were actually coming true. That was, if you have PAYGO, it is the one…

As my friend, the majority leader, knows, I filed a bill last year that, in my view, required real reform on ethics. I campaigned on this issue extensively in the year 2006, and it is a bill that I actually talked about in that election…

I will try to be brief. What happened today is my friend from Tennessee (Mr. Wamp) had some ideas that were similar to mine, and so we joined forces today to try to make this a bipartisan bill. So it is a third alternative. I hope people…

Thank you, Mr. Leader. Let me try to put it in perspective, then. If I am in southern Indiana and I am driving from New Albany to Seymour, the direct route is on I-65, but if I go to Bloomington to Seymour, it is a longer route, but I…

Mr. Leader, the minority side has been talking about PAYGO rules and that somehow we have violated them. They sound very convincing. And as you know, the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition are also strong supporters of the PAYGO…

I rise today in the well of the House of Representatives to honor those who have so nobly given their lives in defense of our freedoms and values. The men and women serving in the armed services both here and abroad are American heroes. We…

The fence takes on symbolic proportions just by the idea that we are putting up a wall, some people like to call it. But this fence is not designed to keep the Israeli people out of Israel like the East Germans tried to do in East Germany…

It has been 803 days since President Bush and the Republican Party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time the national debt has increased by $1,082,452,325,550. According to the website for the Bureau of Public…

It is very hard to get the message out across because interest rates are very low right now, but there will come a day that, if we do not put our fiscal House in order, we could return to the days where interest rates were very, very high…

We talk in terms of billions, sometimes trillions of dollars. For people who may be listening in their living room, maybe eating dinner to the debate that is going on here this evening, why is this an important issue to them? Why should…

I think nothing is more important today than working to support the morale of our men and women in uniform. The President vetoed a renovation project at Malmstrom Air Force Base for a dining hall; Mr. Speaker, a dining hall that, without…

I believe that everyone who worked on this task force came with a commitment to wanting to reform the system and to make it work to restore the integrity of the system and the belief of the American people. The gentleman from Wisconsin…

The greatest threat to agriculture, the family farm in America, is the death tax. Many farms and ranches today cannot produce the cash flow necessary to pay the tax burden to pass that business on to another generation. This is a…

We have all these programs out here that we are helping fund, that we are helping to promote small business. Then, on the other hand, we have IRS regulations and a punitive Tax Code that is making it difficult or impossible for those small…

Every employee out there whose employer offers health insurance to them receives that health insurance without paying taxes on it. The employer gets a tax deduction for that. We are talking about the self-employed. The irony of this is…

H.R. 478 places protection as a priority above redtape. When confronted with the need to make repairs to our Nation's flood control structures, delays can be fatal to people, to wildlife, and to the environment. Flood control structures…

This bill is intended to create greater responsibility on the part of a lot of folks that are involved in public housing. We have talked some about the work requirement, if my colleague will, the community service requirement, which is an…

Now as I understand it, some of these public housing authorities have capital funds that have not been spent. Am I correct that some of these are the public housing administrations that have some of the poorest housing? Is that correct?