Bob Filner

I rise in support of the Kucinich and Progressive Caucus substitute to H.R. 3763. This substitute restores integrity to investor-owned companies by ensuring that the investors and taxpayers and employees get an accurate assessment of a…

I speak in favor of the bill, and I want to talk to part of the bill that has not been fully vetted yet. Mr. Speaker, I would say to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth), if he is interested in security at a time of war, let us…

I have introduced this evening legislation that calls for a special prosecutor to be named to look into the whole Enron mess. Sure, this is a business scandal, and congressional committees are looking into reforms of our auditing practices…

I rise in support of the ``Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001''. I want to thank Chairman Christopher Smith, Ranking Member Lane Evans and Chairman Jerry Moran of the Health Subcommittee for…

I rise today to tell my colleagues about an incredible situation that is going on in my district in San Diego, California. I have running through my district 50 million gallons of raw sewage a day. I doubt that any congressperson in…

My amendment, Mr. Chairman, refers to the southern border of the United States. We know the tragedies that had afflicted this country of September 11, especially on New York City; and arguments have been made on this floor very eloquently…

In title X (the emergency supplemental provisions), in the item relating to ``DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE--Immigration and Naturalization Service--Salaries and Expenses'', insert before the period at the end the following: Provided, That, of the…

all across this country, reservists have been called up to defend this Nation. They are doing this because they are patriotic Americans. They do it willingly, and our country is indebted to them. But these reservists face critical problems…

Mr Speaker and colleagues, I express my strong support for H.R. 3240, the Reservists Education Protection Act of 2001. We are facing a situation in which many of the men and women, currently pursuing their education with VA educational…

When I fly to Washington from Lindberg Field in San Diego and I check in my bags, I see hardworking people trying to do their best for the American public. But they are paid the minimum wage. They get 2 days of training, and there is…

I rise today to make sure all of my colleagues understand the economic crisis that is occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border from San Diego, California, which I represent, all the way east of Brownsville, Texas. These border communities are…

Mr. Speaker, it is disgraceful that in this Nation, 250,000 to 350,000 veterans are on the street every night; people who have served this country, men and women who have risked their lives here and abroad to give our Nation freedom, and…

I rise on behalf of the towns and cities along the southern border with Mexico in our Nation. These areas are dying economically and need our assistance now. In the wake of the events of September 11, this country has embarked upon…

We do have a national emergency. We do have an industry that we need to be working in America. But those emergencies should not be an excuse to stampede the democratic process, to rush through a bill which has not been considered duly…

the Republican energy bill on the floor today does nothing about the prices, the obscene prices, that we are still paying for electricity in California and the West. If we had to pay for a loaf of bread what we are paying for energy today…

this rule does nothing to bring down the obscenely high prices that we have been paying for electricity in California and the rest of the West Coast for the last year. It does nothing. We are being gouged, and the Republicans refuse to do…

I keep hearing about competition, laws of supply and demand. There is a manipulated market in California controlled by a cartel of energy wholesalers. Let me tell my colleagues what is happening in San Diego. We are paying 10 times…

Mr. Chairman, 55 years ago this Congress committed a terrible injustice. After World War II, after the victory that occurred, of course first in Europe and then in the Pacific, those who were drafted into the U.S. Army from our Philippines…

I add my voice to those of my colleagues on this side of the aisle who have said there are stunning examples in this bill of how the tax cut has forced us into insufficient funding for important programs. We all have said we have added $1…

We simply have let our veterans down in this budget. We have not honored the promise, we have not honored our commitment, we have not honored our contract with our Nation's veterans. Now, we are fond on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs…

I support one thing the gentleman preceding me in the well said: let us stop the scare tactics. The scare tactics are contained in this report of the so-called Commission to Save Social Security. It is the Commission to privatize Social…

I rise in support of the Inslee-Filner amendment. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Washington for raising this issue. We are not trying to embarrass the Vice President of the United States; we are trying to embarrass the…

I will tell my colleagues, we are a year into an incredible crisis on the West Coast; and yet, the majority party of this House has not allowed a debate on this issue. We have not been granted any amendments; we have not been granted any…

But I will tell the Members, I would say to the majority leader, the small business people in my community are worthy of equal respect for working hard every day, for going to their jobs, for supporting their families, for working 16 and…

Well, now we do know what the administration's energy plan is, Mr. Speaker. When my constituents' bills doubled and tripled in the last year, we asked for Federal help to stop the price gouging and refund those criminal overcharges, but…