Jerry Lewis: “Clearly, the other body is entitled to raise whatever issues it chooses in our upcoming conference, and I expect the…”

it was not my intention to speak on any of these earmarks, but the discussion that has gone on between the chairman and the gentleman from Arizona I was listening to upstairs, and it struck me that there needed to be some addition to this…

I wanted to mention it is very interesting to see my colleague, the chairman, to use statistics and data for his own purposes. We have, over the last 12 years, had nine omnibus appropriations bills, and where those bills were put together…

Mr. Speaker, it is kind of hard to believe that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away and that David Obey provides me with material for my own presentation one more time. While most Americans are Christmas shopping and decorating their…

I would speak just for a moment by way of saying that I think in many ways we have demonstrated if we are not careful with our rhetoric, we can undermine the opportunity we have for bipartisan consideration of very important work in the…