David Skaggs: “Why should that publicly owned powerplant not pay for cleaning up its own pollution?”

Trying to regain my composure, and I thank the gentleman for interrupting me, perhaps just a couple of quantitative observations will capture how we are blessed and graced with the gentleman from Illinois being really an example of living…

I am not questioning the gentleman's sincerity about taking national security issues seriously. Far be it from that. Contrary to what the gentleman is suggesting, I think we should adhere to and aspire to a particularly high standard of…

At a time of economic prosperity, thank goodness, we all generally do feel pretty good about things, but we should bear in mind that there is an enormous underclass in this society that is hurting. And to the extent that we deny them…

I hope the chairman would review this matter when we do go to conference to see if a similar provision could be included in the final version of the bill, which I think would be a good idea.