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I thank Representative Capps for yielding. One of the things that everyone agrees on tonight with respect to this amendment is that we need to have an adequate supply of energy to meet the needs of this country. Eighty percent of the known…
for years, many Members of this Congress have pushed for exactly this type of measure to be adopted today that would give the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, the authority it needs to investigate price gouging. We are living in a time…
I yield myself 1 minute. The argument has been made that this debate is about limiting resources. Does anyone want to stand on the floor of this House of Representatives and tell anyone that they cannot go visit a dying member of their…
I yield 15 seconds to anyone who opposes this amendment, that wants to defend a policy that says that your family or mine or anybody's family cannot include aunts, uncles or cousins. I would be happy to yield to the gentleman from Florida…
I yield myself 2\3/4\ minutes. Today I am offering an amendment to repeal the administration's rules restricting family travel to Cuba. I offered this same amendment last September. It passed by a vote of 225 to 174. Unfortunately, the…
may I first ask, as a matter of procedure, who will be claiming time on the other side? The CHAIRMAN. Time has not yet been claimed.
reclaiming my time, the silence is deafening here. With all due respect to my colleague, with whom I agree on many Cuba policies and respect, no one dares stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and answer the question why we…
I, too, as a fellow Floridian would like to pay tribute tonight to my friend, Tillie Fowler. Tillie was a role model, not just for the women who followed in her footsteps, but for all of us who attempt to represent our communities and our…
The voters have spoken. They have elected us to return to Washington to get the job done. And one of the first things we are getting ready to do is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. We are getting ready to charge to future…
I represent the Tampa Bay area, adjacent to the gentleman from Florida's (Mr. Young) district. The community I represent went through four separate preparations for these horrific hurricanes that have been described tonight, and we were…
I just want to further respond to the gentleman's comments because I agree, we need to be clear on the facts. We will disagree on the policy. The rule specifically states that if you are sending something to a spouse, a child, a parent or…
I think this is a human rights issue. This is not an issue about whether the embargo is going to stand with Cuba. This is a more fundamental issue about the human rights of Cuban-Americans living in the United States: in my home, the Tampa…
I want to first start by thanking the gentleman from California (Mr. Pombo), chairman of the Committee on Resources, for working with me and others to clarify that the language in this bill is not intended to alter the existing law and the…
I am here with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Putnam) on behalf of several representatives from the Tampa Bay area to add a few words of pride and satisfaction at this remarkable achievement. Yes, we heard that right. A Florida hockey…
One of the statistics that I think is beyond dispute here is the Federal debt now totals $7 trillion. And if you break that down by every person living in the United States, it is $24,000 a person. A few brave, moderate Republicans in the…
Forrester Research, Inc., has predicted that American employers will move over 3.3 million white collar service jobs amounting to about $136 billion in wages overseas over the next 15 years. There are clearly sectors of our economy that…
This is about choice. This is about whether the beneficiary under current law can fall back on the traditional Medicare program. There has been no dispute that under this bill as the chief actuarial, the President's chief actuarial, has…
The purpose of the premium support provision is to try to reduce the cost of the Medicare program to the benefit of Medicare beneficiaries and the taxpayers, and that goal is a worthy goal. We have heard debate tonight about one of the…
I find it incredulous that the gentleman believes that the Federal Government should not take advantage of negotiating some discount, just as Sam's Club does to buy discounts on behalf of its customers, or just as the Secretary of Defense…
tonight I rise in honor of Martha Gibbons, who hand in hand with her husband, former Congressman Sam Gibbons, faithfully and selflessly served the Tampa Bay area. Sam and Martha were partners in all that they did. During Sam's 34 years in…
Mr. Chairman, my trip to Iraq last week convinced me of the need to support this bill, to provide to our troops with the tools and protection they need to do their job. In addition, I am convinced if we do not adopt this bill, Iraq will…
I think first it is important to put into context the motion to instruct. The motion is an attempt to try to remove the voucher provision which many of us believe is an obstacle to finding a middle ground to developing a Medicare…
Mr. Chairman, in March of this year, the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset Control, OFAC, proposed a regulation which would end licenses for travel to Cuba for educational purposes unless the travel consisted exclusively of…
I think it is clear this is not a debate about tourism, and it is not a debate about illicit activity. It is about whether certain kinds of educational activities can occur. It is fair to point out that there is abuse as the gentlewoman…
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