Bob Filner

I wish the majority party, the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, would say we need to get out a bill to help California and the West before Memorial Day. Why are we…

I have heard it said never has so much money been transferred from so many people to so few in so short a time. We are being killed by the prices. The Federal Government must act or the whole economy is threatened. It is these same…

And they certainly took that opportunity. So we need cost-based rates. We have legislation to do it. This Congress can take it up today, tomorrow, and pass it and bring some relief to people in California. The Governor of California is…

It is amazing that an administration which stresses States' rights and wants to keep the government off our backs will not allow us to do that. It costs 2 or 3 cents a kilowatt to produce electricity. We are paying in California anywhere…

It is clear that the prices are bleeding us dry in California; my colleague from California told us in 2 years from $7 billion to $70 billion. The short-term answer involves getting down those prices. The long-term answer, and we will…

Mr. Speaker, we have all been here this afternoon talking about honoring our World War II veterans, the greatest generation. We have all talked about how long it has taken to honor these veterans, how many have died, even in the planning…

Mr. Speaker, the veterans of this Nation ought to march on this Capitol in protest to this budget. I heard from a Member from the other side of the aisle that this budget over the next 10 years helps veterans. This does nothing of the…

I rise today close to the 59th anniversary of Bataan Day, April 9, 1942, to recognize the brave soldiers who were captured on this day and forced into the infamous Bataan Death March. I was honored to travel to the Philippines a few years…

last summer I was on the floor many times as the Congressman from San Diego, California, with a grave electricity crisis and said, ``The rest of California better watch. The rest of the West of the United States better watch. The rest of…

on rollcall No. 603, I am on ``leave of absence'' for the week of December 11. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.'' Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I was absent and unable to vote the evening of December 15, 2000. I would have voted…

on rollcall No. 602, I was in my Congressional District on official business. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

I rise today to commend a valued member of my staff here in Washington, Ms. Buffy Wicks, on her completion of the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. just last Sunday, a marathon which raised millions of dollars for AIDS research…

Because San Diego is the poster child for the future of California what is going on in San Diego, what happened after the deregulation to a monopoly market, will happen to the rest of California in another year or so and perhaps the rest…

I just want to point out one more factor in all this before I conclude and, that is, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has claimed both in public and in private conversations they do not have the authority to roll back wholesale…

I thank the Chairman, Mr. Stump and the Ranking Member of the Full Committee, Mr. Evans for their hard work in bringing the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000, H.R. 4864 as amended, before us today. Following the U.S. Court of Appeals…

I want to add one more reason to vote for this bill, and that is because of the provisions which enact an important agreement to save the drinking water for 25 million citizens in the Southwest United States. These provisions would move…

as our colleagues are going off to their home districts for the weekend, I want to remind them all of the crisis that is going on in my district in San Diego, California. They are the first city in California and, perhaps, the first in the…

to me, the real heroes in our country today are those people who go to work every day, play by the rules, provide for their loving families and contribute back to their communities. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one such American…

Like my colleagues, I rise to say that we must stop deporting hard-working legal immigrants only because they committed a minor infraction years or even decades ago. We must stop hauling parents away in the middle of the night in front of…

on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of California's admission to the Union, I rise to bring attention to the 50th Congressional District of California--an urban district in southern San Diego County and the southernmost district in…

I just returned from San Diego where earlier this week hearings were held by the Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Power and Energy yesterday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the electricity crisis that is facing San…

I returned home, like all of my colleagues, to my district in August. And what did I find in my hometown of San Diego? In a word, disaster. San Diego is the first area of California to fully deregulate its electrical utility industry. The…

I invite him to visit San Diego. It is misplaced to blame the San Diego crisis on environmental regulations. Yes, we need more capacity as the environment grows. Yes, we need environmentally sensitive generating capacity. And, yes, we need…

I rise tonight to tell my colleagues about a tragic situation going on in San Diego, California. Like all of my colleagues, I went home at the beginning of August for a work period in our district, but what I found in San Diego was a…

I rise today in support of doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health to further life-saving research. The world is at the cutting edge of biomedical research breakthroughs that will alter forever the age-old battle of humans…