Nancy Pelosi

Mr. Rumsfeld has been engaged in a cover-up from the start on this issue and continues to be so.

I am pleased to see that bipartisanship is alive and well, at least among the former Members in the Congress of the United States. Good for you for honoring Sam Nunn. Sam Nunn is a great American recognized throughout our country even…

Would the gentleman inform the Members of this body when all of the troops had the body armor? As of when?

We have a commission wholly owned by the executive branch investigating the executive branch.

They terrorize people who are just trying to earn a living.

I am pleased to join nearly 300 of our colleagues in cosponsoring this important measure, which is an effort to encourage Syria to cease its support for terrorism and to end its occupation of Lebanon. Syria's assistance to terrorist…

I call that an obscenity. The Bush administration proposal would mean a pay cut for 8 million workers in our country. Millions of workers depend on that overtime pay to make ends meet. Indeed, it triggers their ability to get a mortgage or…

I rise to say that H.R. 2210 will dismantle Head Start and rob single moms of the best early childhood education for their children.

I said the other night in the debate on Medicare that on this floor of the House people can misrepresent the facts, and that is okay; but if you call them on it, you can be questioned on questioning the veracity of your colleague. Well, I…

The Democratic plan does just that. This Republican bill, I repeat, is not guaranteed. It is not affordable. It is not a defined prescription drug benefit under Medicare that our seniors want and deserve. The Republican plan is a plan to…

Mr. Speaker, today is a sad day for America's seniors. Another sad day, late at night in the Chamber of the House of Representatives, where the budget priorities of our country should be debated to their fullest extent, but where the…

I think this is a sham Republican Medicare bill which fails to provide women with a real prescription drug benefit which they need and they deserve.

In my friendship with the Case family, which includes the recently departed Dan Case, he was a great person in our country and came from a beautiful, magnificent family of leaders, and among them was Dan Case and is Steve Case. But we are…

Mr. Leader, that I have expressed to you over and over again my dismay that we have only passed two appropriations bills and that we have a tremendous amount of unfinished business before the Congress. However, I will use my remaining time…

The hour is late. Other than the vote on Iraq today, we have not accomplished anything much in this body since July. Since there is no question we will have a lame duck, would my colleague wish to share with us when that might begin?

On a final note, I would say, Mr. Speaker, that we have eight appropriations bills still to consider, including the very important one dealing with education, our number one national priority; also, the appropriation bills that deal with…

I thank the gentleman. Can the distinguished gentleman inform us when H.R. 3450, to reauthorize community health centers, might be scheduled? Twelve million Americans who are served by the centers are waiting to hear. I was hoping it might…

We all want to reaffirm our Pledge of Allegiance, but we can do that by pledging allegiance not only to the Flag but to the American people. They are still crying out for us to take action, to grow the economy, to create jobs, to educate…

There are many other issues that the American people are concerned about that relate to education, to a prescription drug benefit, to access to health care, pension security. The list goes on and on; and as we come in for our 2-day-a-week…

The Senate had passed it 78 to 21, the prescription drug bill relating to generic drugs which would lower the cost by $60 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. We have a discharge petition to that end to…

We have given away tomorrow, we are giving up next Monday, we are giving up next Friday, and the list of unfinished business continues to grow. The number of legislative days continues to shrink. Does the gentleman expect the bill to…

I think that if there is a person out there who has lost their pension or a senior making a decision about how much of a dosage you are able to afford to take or whether you can even afford to take any prescription drug over purchasing…

Mr. Chairman, we are gathered here today to honor a compact that our government has with the American people, and that compact is to provide for the common defense. It is embodied in our preamble to the Constitution, wherein our civil…

This section would prohibit the Government from putting in place the Bush administration's TIPS program, the Terrorist Information and Prevention System. Is it the majority leader's intent that section 770 ban both the program called…

I just want to make this final point: I talked earlier about the size of this department and the number of localities in this country that are larger. There are not that many that have more people than this department will have. The main…