on rollcall No. 114 I was unavoidably detained at the White House. Had I been present, I would have noted ``yea.''

But we also want to make sure that we're preparing this nation for the future and reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

the cultural differences in this House are intriguing. Hailing from the South, we would label ``cockamamie'' a theory where the President would conspire to break the law and invite Members of the other party in on the deal. We would call…

relaiming my time, the gentleman had suggested that the other 420 Members of the House had not had access to the information, and that is precisely how it is set up, that they would not have access to that information. That is why we have…

House Resolution 774 is a structured rule that provides for consideration of H.R. 5020, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to bring this resolution to the floor for its consideration. This…

my friend from Massachusetts had me with Iran and lost me with Iraq. Everything that he said regarding the seriousness of the threat from Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran, is unacceptable to our interests. Everything he said is absolutely…

House Resolution 766 is a rule that provides for general debate of House Concurrent Resolution 376, the bill establishing the congressional budget for the Federal Government for fiscal year 2007, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary…

perhaps in the gentleman's stack of letters that we are entering into the Record, he could find the thank you notes from the veterans who thank us for finally, after decades of inactivity under the previous leadership, acting on concurrent…

the myth is this: in your plan, you assume that the $200 billion tax gap will magically appear tomorrow. If we knew where the $200 billion was, we would find it now. You assume that the $200 billion in uncollected taxes are available to be…

it has been a good debate. We have 4 more hours to go. We need to pass this rule. The gentleman has grabbed the veterans issue by the horns, and appropriately so. We will stand by our veterans funding. It is a 4 percent increase in an era…

my colleagues join me in complimenting your selection of neckwear this morning. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell), one of our newer members of the Budget Committee and a CPA.

I think the gentlewoman raises an important point about the need for us to continue to invest in research and development, in health care initiatives that allow us to remain a Nation on the cutting edge of technology both in biosciences…

it is always fun to have these debates. We ought to at least start out with our facts straight, though. For the last 10 years, spending per veteran under Republican leadership has doubled. In the last 10 years, spending budget authority…

reclaiming my time, nowhere in the CBO score for this report is there any estimates that States will lose TANF funds for failure to operate satisfactory child support programs. They would score as an additional Federal savings if they did…

both of the gentlemen are very eloquent, except they miss the overall point, which is that we are debating the technical amendments to what the House passed long before the President's State of the Union speech. The three changes that were…

I yield 2 minutes to the senior member of the Budget Committee, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Ryun).

we are dealing with the Deficit Reduction Act yet again to address some technical amendments that were made by the Senate. House Resolution 653 provides that the House agree with the Senate amendments to the House passed version of S…

I yield 2 minutes to another gentleman from Florida (Mr. Crenshaw), a distinguished member of the Committee on the Budget.

Under your definition, sir, people continue to get more money year after year after year and it is a cut. Under your definition.

while I would love to engage the gentleman in his theory that big oil companies caused Hurricane Katrina on the rule about consideration of legislation on the same legislative day, I reserve the balance of my time.

obviously, I came prepared for the wrong debate. I brought the good economic news that is being told and shared and being invested all across this great land. Productivity numbers up, unemployment at 5 percent, nearly full employment for…

we have worked our way through Dickens, Dr. Seuss, and the entire New Testament. I wait to see what else awaits us.

House Resolution 640 provides for consideration of the conference report on Senate 1932, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. The rule waives all points of order against the conference report and against its consideration. As a member of…

the gentlewoman is correct when she characterizes this as an unusual time. It is almost 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and the Congress is in session. These are very unusual times as we approach the end of this first session of the 109th…

these are unusual times as we struggle through the important deliberations of this Congress to make sure that our troops are cared for through the Department of Defense appropriations process and that our gulf coast friends and neighbors…