David Weldon

I want to add one more thing. I have gone into the Space Station processing facility of Kennedy Space Center, and I have gone into the first elements. I want to tell my colleagues that the people who are working on this program are excited…

I can testify to all of you, one of the things an emergency room doctor fears in the course of his practice is to have a minor child come into the emergency room unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian in need of acute medical care…

I believe and I trust the gentleman believes the same way, that the person who is most concerned about the child and the child's education is the mom and dad. It is not necessarily the bureaucracy here in Washington or the Members of this…

In talking to a lot of parents in my congressional district who have serious concerns about the quality of education in the United States, one of the big issues that I find comes up more and more is an area where I think a lot of our…

It is amazing that we here in the United States, the Nation that has championed the value of the free market and how the free market has the ability to do a better job than the government, and how the free market has the ability to provide…

I think the people in the gentleman's district should be proud of freshmen like the gentleman, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Joe Pitts), who have been really trying to push that legislation through. We spent here in Washington…

It is not an issue of money. I reiterate, I come back to this essential point that we are debating or discussing here tonight, we are both on the same side of this debate, which is that if we can give parents that ability, and if the…

to look at American policy of helping China develop its missile and rocket programs, one can only ask who is minding the store. While most Americans would think that we should not be arming our adversaries, apparently there are some in…

I just wanted to close out my contribution to this special order to say how pleased I am to see us moving in this direction, and that we may be able to pass the repeal of the marriage penalty. Many people ask me, how did you get into…

I just want to stress the point that you were just making, that the burden of this so often does fall to the women, particularly when marriages fail. Much of the consequences of that falls to the women because, frequently, they do end up…

I believe the institution of marriage was ordained by God. If you travel all over the world, it is very obvious that it is a universal institution, and its obvious primary function is to be the place where new citizens, future citizens…

I rise today to speak out on Space Day, which is actually celebrated May 21, it was yesterday, a day set aside to celebrate the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's bold challenge to land a man on the moon. The space program, as we all know…

I want to just share with my colleagues here, Mr. Chairman, when I was in the Army Medical Corps, every month at the end of the month my Secretary would bring me a stack of patients who were unable to get in to see me for an appointment…

I have some questions for the other side of the aisle, questions that I am absolutely 100 percent sure I will receive no answers for. I am sure that I will receive no answers, because for nearly three years now the other side has made it…

I am a product of the public school system. I went to primary and secondary, as well as college and medical school, through public schools. Indeed, my mother was a public school teacher. But yet, I support this bill, and I think this bill…

I am a physician. I did my internship and residency in San Francisco in the early 1980s. I remember when I got there as a young intern being told that there were people coming in with strange conditions. And I remember the first article…

I commend him and the Ranking Member on this legislation and, in particular, for including funds for the widening of U.S. Highway 192. U.S. Highway 192 is a dangerous two-lane road that connects the south Orlando-Kissimmee-St. Cloud area…

Well, in the legislation, we have a provision that requires that before they enroll, they have to be counseled regarding any limitations on access to specialists, any out-of-pocket expenses that are associated with going outside the plan…

The bill requires that all managed care entities set up a grievance committee, and it should be, it can be made up of people, doctors that are in the plan, administrators that are in the plan, but it also calls for patients to be enrolled…

is it fair to let some of our fastest growing competitors like China, Mexico and India have an advantage? That is what the U.N. Climate Treaty will do. The President still vows to sign it. This flawed treaty will force the U.S. to commit…

what is happening right now to Judge Kenneth Starr is absolutely disgraceful. The amazing thing about it is that the smear campaign directed at Judge Starr is happening right before our eyes. Attorney General Janet Reno, the Attorney…

I rise in support of naming the airport after Ronald Reagan. I was a medical student in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I remember 20 percent inflation rates, I remember no job creation, I remember my wife and I wondering what kind of…

I think our agenda really should be helping kids get a good education, and saving and protecting public schools sometimes is involved in that, but sometimes these public schools are so bad that they should be closed down... One of the…

I would also like to commend him in his initiative for many, many years on behalf of the importance of improving education in the United States, and in particular, in the area of school choice and its value in improving education. We…

The issue is the kids; it is not the schools, not the bricks and the mortar, but it is the kids, what is best for the kids.