Wendy Sherman

this bill shows the courage to boldly go where none have gone before, to levels of public debt and levels of trade deficits that no nation has ever tried, higher than any have dared. We have a dollar that is dependent upon our fiscal…

first, on the choice issue, I want to commend those other speakers who have stood here and pointed out how this bill will lead to the death of women who are suffering from partial miscarriages and will lead to the partial death of our…

I vote against S. 2986 not for the purpose of causing the United States to default, but rather for the purpose of forcing a serious debate on fiscal policy.

The Bush administration has going to have to take the gloves off a little bit, and be a little more head-on about where President Putin is leading his country.

We're going to see leaders turn to the American president and say, What about your budget deficit? What about the weak dollar? What about rising oil prices in the world?

now Bremer has told us what went wrong in Iraq and why. He said we did not have enough troops and, specifically, we did not have enough troops in the days immediately following the fall of Saddam. This led to violence and looting…

this is bad procedure to adopt bad tax policy. I want to get parochial and address my fellow southern Californians. This bill shafts southern California. Take a look at Roll Call. "Studios Take a Hit in the Tax Bill." The article explains…

during the presidential debate, both candidates agreed that nuclear weapons in the wrong hands were the greatest threat to America. President Bush described his policy by saying we have sanctioned Iran; we cannot sanction them anymore…

I tell my colleagues, please do not listen to this speech unless they are from California. As Californians, we, of course, care that this bill will hurt America because it encourages the export of jobs and increases the federal deficit…

I rise to address a bill by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder). It is co-sponsored by the majority leader, a bill which the President has indicated he looks upon favorably. It is to abolish the income tax and impose a '23 percent…

I hearken back to the Grand Old Party that gave us Teddy Roosevelt and reflect on how far that party has fallen in the area of consumer protection, to the point where we now have the most anticonsumer administration in the history of this…

are we safer now than we were 4 years ago? We have spent billions and 1,000 of our best have died in Iraq. But spending blood and treasure without wisdom will not necessarily make us safer. And while we have as a unified Nation dealt with…

What if stock options were given to a health insurance company in return for providing health insurance to the employees? Everyone in this hall agrees that would be listed as an expense. What if a company issues stock in return for…

America has to fight to get capital. China lets its domestic companies put anything they want on their financial statements. We respond with independent, nonpolitical, generally accepted accounting principles written by the FASB, an…

Mr. Chairman, this bill is packaged as a bill that requires the expensing of stock options that are issued to the top five executives of every company. This amendment allows the bill to achieve its stated purpose. The bill, in fact, when…

I come here as a CPA to fight for the independence of the FASB, an independent board that has given us generally accepted accounting principles which this bill would change to generally political accounting principles. America has to fight…

I introduced this amendment on behalf of myself and the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen). We are both concerned that the World Bank has decided to make loans of $359 million to the government of Iran. We are also both concerned…

This vote on this amendment is our only chance this year to vote to put economic pressure on the government of Iran that is developing nuclear weapons. It is the only chance we have this year to respond to the World Bank and to show how we…

I voted against H.R. 4418--The Customs Border Security Act of 2004--because I did not feel a bill of such importance should be considered under suspension of the rules.

I rise to deal with one aspect of this bill, and that is that it does not impose, as I would like it to, a $25,000 limit on the amount of postage spent by any one committee in any one year. That would be $50,000 a Congress or $25,000 as an…

Even as overall postage and printing expenditures have declined from the $100 million-plus levels once seen in Congresses 15 years ago, franking remains a source of fiscal and political interest to NTU. The already-generous limits…

just to quickly respond to the gentleman from Georgia who argues that these mass mailings by committees are justified. If we do not have a limit, they will grow. What was a $500,000 request this time may be a $1 million request or a $2…

I suggest if we catch a bomber, we arrest him. He suggests a doctrine in which anyone could be called an enemy combatant for doing whatever the administration thinks is harmful to the United States and incarcerated forever, and that the…

Mr. Chairman, what we use to protect American citizens is our criminal law. If bin Laden arrives in the United States, he has already been indicted. If someone smashes an airplane into a building, I suggest they be arrested for murder…

My first amendment deals with the enemy combatant doctrine, and what the bill does is that it provides that none of the funds in this act can be used to detain for more than 30 days anyone apprehended on U.S. territory solely because that…