Sam Gejdenson

I know I speak for the entire community when I say 'Welcome Back, Mr. President.'

The effort to purchase and preserve the banner demonstrates that pride in the community and our heritage is alive and well in America today.

The return of the 'Lincoln Banner' to Norwich brings the community full circle and closes an important loop in its history.

The story surrounding the discovery and restoration of this 138 year old artifact is a testament to the spirit of volunteerism and pride in our history.

I believe President Lincoln would be proud of, and probably more than a little humbled by, the community's efforts to preserve an important part of the past.

I rise to commemorate a momentous event in the history of Norwich, Connecticut.

I hope the chairman could at this point release the chemical treaty while he is negotiating in the omnibus. The advantage of that, of course, is that this is an important thing that I think the chairman should if he does not, I think he…

the President and the people of this country have forced this do-nothing Congress to take some actions, and we have begun a process of dealing with issues they have avoided for 2 years. But there are two critical issues that still are not…

I can guarantee you near Democratic support if it is a clean bill on the chemical treaty. If it has a number of other items on it, I am afraid we may not see that bill pass in this session. I think that would just be wrong. It is late in…

one of the key differences between the United States is that we have made education universally available. As we compete in this modern economy, it is clear that we cannot compete at the bottom of the economic ladder. Countries will always…

The reality is what the very capable chairman of the Committee on Appropriations has for a problem is he cannot get agreement on his side in the House or in the Senate, and he cannot get the House and the Senate to agree. Mr. Gingrich, the…

I just think that it is interesting where the priorities are, as the gentleman points out. I am sorry I offended the gentleman earlier today about the intensity of my statement. Frankly, when I find friends and relatives and constituents…

I can hardly believe what I have just heard. The Republican Party, which has used its majority in Congress to deny people access to education, to deny them access to health care, refuses to take any steps to deal with HMO reform or the…

It seems to me that, if we go back before the battles that have raged in the last several weeks, there has to be a fundamental question of why we came to Congress. I grew up in the town of Bozrah, a town about 2,400 people. I knew that…

Now the bad news here is that the extreme right has taken control of the agenda here. We find ourselves through this session not dealing with the budgetary matters, health care, education. We spent half a day on the floor trying to take…

I come and join my friends from California to ask my colleagues to join the debt of history here. This is a people, the Armenians, who have suffered through history. Their lands had been taken; they had faced the first modern genocide…

Mr. Chairman, the people of this country watching this debate, as few or many as they are, obviously feel some confusion. Everyone gets up and claims that they have the product that personifies reform, and, as you look through history…

just in case there are any questions left about what is wrong with health care in America and the failure of the Republican proposal in this House, my family has had another opportunity to see America's present health care system up close…

I hope that he will do everything he said here today to try to add funding. Clearly, the R&D function is woefully underfunded. And I would also hope that we would give the Coast Guard some latitude within its budget to move funds around as…

for the past few months, my democratic colleagues and I have demanded that Republicans bring HMO reform to the floor. And now, what do we get. Barely 2 hours to debate a bill that was introduced just last week and has had no hearings, no…

one has to wonder what motivates Speaker Gingrich to continually stop movement on HMO reform. Today in the paper again a 52-year-old father of five suffers and waits to get a liver transplant, and it is not approved until he is too ill and…

in this institution through the years we see many people come and go. The great wealth of American ability is that they get replaced by capable individuals that go on to represent their constituents. It is not often that a vacuum is felt…

that system, which you condemn in public education and all these other forums, has the highest standard of living in the world, has the biggest economy in the world, is the idol of every other economy in the world. The countries that…

I would say two things. One is, I fundamentally disagree with two of the concepts of my colleague. One is that by making everything soft money, basically, under the proposal of my colleague, we could have unlimited contributions to…

only those with enough money to buy the megaphone would get to speak. Yes, the rich would be heard. But the average person, he might be able to read about which rich person is being heard, but he could not express himself if the almighty…