Robert Berry

I will just conclude by mentioning what a heroic effort our local pharmacies have made in the last few years to try to take care of our seniors and see that they got the medicine they needed at the best possible prices, and the heroic…

I conducted a study and discovered that seniors in Connecticut's 3rd District pay an average of twice what the pharmaceutical companies' preferred customers pay. And by 'preferred customers,' so it is clear, and I am sure others have made…

I stand here tonight without reservation, I am against this impeachment. It simply does not rise to the level that the Constitution requires. It is unfair, it is partisan, and it mocks fair play. We should not do it. For the good of this…

this has been called the do-nothing Congress. In the lower Mississippi River Valley, where I come from, they have got a term called gray mule. I call it the gray mule Congress. What that term means is, in the frontier days, they had a lot…

I am an East Arkansas rice farmer, and I remember a story an old fellow in my community told me when I first started farming. He said there was a man who came through during the Depression and he had a truckload of rocks. If a farmer would…

I rise today as a proponent of expanded trade opportunities for Americans. I support renewal of traditional trading authority for the President, and I will vote today in favor of H.R. 2621. My vote today should not be an indication that I…

over 500,000 retired Arkansans depend on their Social Security monthly check as a necessary source to supplement their retirement income. In fact, the First Congressional District of Arkansas has the largest number of seniors for whom…

I rise today to pay tribute also to a remarkable Member of the House, Congressman Vic Fazio of California. Vic has announced his retirement after 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. When he leaves this body at the end of the…

I favor cutting taxes, but I do not favor robbing my children and my grandchildren's future to do it. Right now millions of working Americans are paying into the Social Security system and are counting on it for when they retire. No one…

This issue first came to my attention when a child, Machael Al Omary, living with her mother in Jonesboro, Arkansas was illegally kidnapped by her noncustodial father and taken to Saudi Arabia where her mother has no legal right to…

my motion makes the following two important changes: It strikes the Medical Savings Account provision from the Republican bill, saving billions of dollars a year. The money saved in the MSA will be used to accelerate the health insurance…

I rise tonight to eulogize the lives of the five people, one woman and four little girls, who lost their lives yesterday in the senseless and tragic ambush shooting in Craighead County, Arkansas. I rise to offer my condolences to the…

the kidnapping of a child is a terrible crime that should not be tolerated. However, it is something that happens all too often with the perpetrator actually being rewarded in some cases. There are hundreds of unresolved cases in which…

I rise to request my colleagues' support for legislation I introduced yesterday to save the Medicare program almost half a billion dollars a year in unnecessary overpayments for prescription drugs. As the only pharmacist in the 105th…

I rise tonight to honor the memory and service of my friend and colleague, the gentleman from California, the Honorable Walter Capps. His warm smile, kind words, great intellect and integrity made this a better place. His wisdom and…

it is fitting that we rise today to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Little Rock high school crisis. I remember that time well. I was in high school myself at that time. There was much unfairness, and there was much courage. I…

I rise today in support of most-favored-nation status for China. Only last year, the U.S. Congress told the American farmer, we want you to compete in a free market situation. In the 1970's the American farmer was successfully doing that…