Jerry Lewis: “Let me suggest to my colleague that for the first 18 or so years of my time here I served in the minority. I say this is…”

I very much appreciate our chairman yielding. I, too, want to express our deepest gratitude to Dale Oak and his family for the years and years of work and sacrifice they have put in on our behalf. As the chairman indicated, Dale has worked…

I don't stand to take credit for all kinds of extra earmarks. But as long as we are talking about it, the gentleman has heard the Predator mentioned a number of times. I think the gentleman knows that the bureaucrats don't necessarily have…

Well, just out of curiosity, Mr. Speaker, or Mr. Obey, I wonder if there are any earmarks in this massive package that went unidentified in the true spirit of that earmark disclosure rule.

I will never forget my trip to New Orleans to try to see what was happening with money we sent there over a lot of years to the Housing Authority. I met with the Inspector General in the offices of the FBI to discuss what I had seen and…