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I must say, this is really very troubling as to what is going on here and how stuff is ramrodded through, and we are getting paid, but we are doing nothing. We are becoming like the farmers, I guess. We get paid whether we legislate or not…
I proudly stand with the gentlewoman from Hawaii in her privileged resolution, asking that this body take up and debate whether or not the President of France should have the very special privilege that so few heads of state ever have, and…
reclaiming my time, that is absolutely astounding. They get paid whether they decide to work or not?
Mr. Speaker, what the gentleman is saying is classic about what is going on around here. This place is basically shut down. They throw out a bill, and we find out all of these special interests here in it. Here we are, playing political…
reclaiming my time, I guess so. I am very troubled by that. I am also very troubled by the fact that Moody's came out and said they are close to making the bonds of this great Nation almost the junk bond. Mr. Speaker, if we are going to…
The bill is not here because right now negotiations are going on with the administration, in good faith, to determine what the administration can live with and what they cannot live with. Once we determine some kind of an agreement, we…
I thought the most interesting thing the President had to say last night was his point No. 7. It was a very serious thing. I certainly hear this as I travel around this country. I have never heard a President in the State of the Union do…
I must say, I like the gentleman from California, but I am rising to say please vote ``no'' on this bill. I really do not understand this. The favorite thing I have on my schedule today says that between 10 and 4 today I can go to either…
I am just here to hope that this body tonight can listen to what the President says and we can come together and not have another shutdown of the Government or not declare a default on the debt, which would be the first time in the history…
I must say I am very troubled that we do not have the opportunity under this rule to be able to move to recommit the bill and do a clean continuing resolution to open the Government. I really see this body moving from extremism to…
as one who is prepared to leave this body, with my quasi-emeritus status let me say I think this institution is in one ``mell of a hess'' today. It is in terrible shape. We have Democrats coming down and citing their agreement with the…
I wanted to ask the distinguished gentleman from New York why the Democrats were not allowed a motion to recommit in this bill so that we could offer a full and clean resolution to open up the Government rather than this muddled one. I do…
for the first shutdown we spent $700 million. In this shutdown we are spending $40 million a day. We have now been shut down for 19 days. So that comes out to about $1.5 billion the taxpayers have paid for this little clown act. I think…
I am delighted that he made that point. I would make one further point, and that is that the President did sign the defense appropriations bill. I am sure the appropriations chairman knew that. So the appropriation for the Defense…
I must say that it has been a very rough week for those of us who believe that this is the people's House, and, indeed, the people should be able to come here and ask questions. We found we have not even been allowed to ask questions or…
we are told that a million men will be marching on Monday in this city, and we are told that the march is to strengthen and rebuild families, but where are the families? They are to be at home. This is to be a sex-related march with no…
after watching what happened in this House yesterday, I feel like taking this well and yelling at the other side: ``Hey, hey, what do you say, how many seniors are you Republicans going to arrest today?'' This is supposed to be the…
I thought the gentleman was doing a very good job of explaining that, and I think they ought to explain it again, because I also saw this weekend that the other side of the aisle is talking about even doig away with all the Federal health…
The gentleman from Texas again, I am sorry to say, is very correct. We should not look at people's words, we should look at the bill. Here all they want to do is throw words. We have not even seen the real bill, I guess, on Medicare. We…
Absolutely. I think another thing we need is, unfortunately, because we are seeing so many lobbyists now really just moving in and supposedly writing the bills, they ought to put their name on the bill. Let them know which lobbyist…
The fact is that now, after what the Committee on Commerce did, we took away the spousal impoverishment thing. It would not just be the mother and her home, it is everything that couple owns must be sold before they can go onto Medicaid…
I will be very brief because the gentleman from Texas is being very kind. I am glad I got to answer these statements. No. 1, the cost for bringing the statue up. There has been a private group that the Senate has put together that is…
Golden Rule is going to own all the gold if this works the way the gentleman from Texas is explaining. That is exactly what I understand. They are going to say to people, if I am right, they have this option to have this medical savings…
today my city of Denver and many other Coloradans went to the Supreme Court and a very, very powerful argument was put together by my city and many others that would say that all Americans, all Americans, have the right to equal protection…
Absolutely. If we had that kind of disclosure, I think we would have much less in the line of October surprises when this passes because we will know exactly how it is going to look. It is going to look like something they favor. If they…
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