DENNIS A. CARDOZA

I would like to say that we will deal in the debate on the bill chiefly with regard to what the level of reforms is. I would just like to tell my colleagues and my friends from both Arizona and Wisconsin that there are, in fact…

I don't like what I consider to be an extravagant disaster assistance program. I don't like the minuscule cuts to direct payments, and I don't like the unnecessary subsidies. And I don't like the fact that this bill reduces the mandatory…

it is clear that President Bush is out of touch with today's consumer. First, he refused to accept that the economy was heading in a downturn. Now, it takes a reporter's question for him to realize that gas prices in this country will soon…

Senate bill 2571 provides a technical correction to the reauthorization of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act approved by the House and the Senate and that was signed by the President on October 9, 2007. As my colleagues know, EPA…

I agree totally with one statement that Mr. Dreier... said, and that is that Mr. Bishop often comes up with brilliant ideas. Today we are allowing two of those brilliant ideas to be debated on the floor. With regard to some of the other…

the gentleman who just spoke talks about malarkey. I would say that his side of the aisle should know about malarkey after they raised the Federal deficit over $4 trillion in the last 6 years.

Madam Speaker, the Democratic philosophy is simple: We believe in pay-as-you-go. In other words, we believe that you should live within your financial means. Every family that makes these choices around the kitchen table every month in…

the Republicans have said that this bill raises taxes, but that's far from the truth. Let me again, as I did in my opening, set the record straight. This bill closes tax loopholes that allow a privileged few on Wall Street to pay a lower…

Madam Speaker, passing PAYGO rules at the beginning of the 110th Congress fulfilled an absolute pledge to the American people that this new Congress was going to spend taxpayers' dollars and money responsibly and without continuing to run…

with home values dropping and the cost of health care, home heating oil and college education continuing to rise, American families are justifiably uneasy about their ability to make ends meet in a declining economy. The Democratic…

Mr. Speaker, I want to start by saying that I couldn't disagree more with the gentleman's last comments. What I heard just does not even make any sense to me, having spent the last 5 years of my life sitting here watching this House debate…

I just wish to again give my deepest condolences to the folks who have lost their property in your district, Mr. Lewis. As you have said, we have traveled there and had hearings, and, frankly, with all the dry timber that was left behind…

many House Republicans have mistakenly bought into President Bush's false rhetoric about the CHIP program and its reauthorization. I would hope that they would listen to their Senate Republican colleagues who are willing to see past the…

The reality is that the bill at hand, the rule that we are trying to move forward to bring a bill to the House floor today, eliminates privatization of tax collection. Now, my Republican colleagues on the other side of the aisle love…

I would just like to correct my colleague, the gentleman from Florida, my friend and great colleague on the committee, that on page 19 of the committee report issued after the bill was written, I would like to read section G, which reads…

The drug program. The unheard of tax cuts that were not paid for. There have been several things that have exposed the American Treasury to boondoggles, and they have been authored by the gentleman's party.

I would say there are several Republican boondoggles that we have seen in the last few years.

In fact, we adopted every amendment that was presented to the Rules Committee and brought it to the floor today. There were three amendments offered. All three amendments will be before the House today. And the question on a Small Business…

This amendment's intent is to cover folks who are in flood areas now that are currently covered by levees that, through no fault of their own, FEMA's come in and decertified. They had regulations 2 years ago that said they were fine…

I understand that the CBO has determined that my amendment violates the PAYGO rules. As such, I would like to engage the chairman of the Agriculture Committee and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in a colloquy. As you both…

Mr. Speaker, as the subcommittee chairman on the House Agriculture Committee, and as a member of the Rules Committee, I am pleased to offer this progressive Federal farm policy act for consideration today. Over the past year, the…

This is an issue I am very passionate about as two of my children are adopted. They were into the foster care system and into adoptive placement because of a CASA volunteer seeing the desperate situation they were both in. The current CASA…

shortly into my tenure as a Member of Congress in 2003 the General Services Administration, the GSA, notified me that my office space at the Bell Station in Merced, California, which I shared with the post office and the IRS would no…

Mr. Gohmert clearly doesn't realize that under Mr. Reagan we had a $1.41 trillion deficit. Under Mr. Bush 1, we had a $1.04 trillion deficit. Under Bush 2, we had a $1.69 trillion deficit, for a total of $4.14 trillion under Republican…

there were several misstatements of fact in the last statements that were made here on the floor by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. This bill actually does not provide $4 billion for legislative branch appropriations, as the…