Victor Fazio: “I am concerned that this conference is going to engage in some fundamental changes not only in the Medicare law----”

I yield to no Member of this institution in my love for infrastructure. I think we all appreciate the fact that this bill gives us a great opportunity to take something home to the people who send us here. But my problem with it is that it…

I have been reading the gentleman's amendment, and I think that I can come up with a number of phrases that would apparently be permitted but which, under his amendment, would be very questionable. Think of words like ``Think Joe Smith''…

first of all let me say how much I appreciate the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and want him to know that in the future when people come to me and ask how we are going to accomplish this or that, I am going to simply refer them to…

Now, Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will continue to yield, as I remember the gentleman's comments from that earlier debate, he was also talking about people who were taxpayers, as many legal residents are, who are not citizens.