Karen Thurman

No. No. And therein itself is a perfect issue as it comes to the defense issue, because now we are wondering how we are going to continue to keep things rolling and not have some kind of an emergency on funding because of the gas price…

I actually was at a function on Friday night for the Key Training Center, which is for children with mental retardation, and I have to tell my colleagues something. I went to a friend of mine who I know is a Republican and is an…

I find it quite interesting that we are talking about an insurance plan. In this country, we already have these plans. We have Medigap plans, we have Medicare Choice. But the problem is, they failed; and yet this is what we have to vote on…

When I go home, I am an elected official, I represent Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. And what I heard from my constituents, and why we are protesting so loudly, is because there are Americans that are not being heard in this…

Over the years, Mr. Speaker, all of us have heard from small business owners and family farmers who want to pass on to their descendents the fruits of their labor, and I empathize with them. And I have worked, as many of us have, to have…

I voted ``yes.'' And I am certainly glad the gentleman did point that out because, yes, I did. And then, of course, we revoted that vote, with every Democrat and Republican on this floor except for three voting to protect Medicare and…

I have a letter here from a mayor, Paula DeLaney out of Gainesville. And she writes to me, ``Dear Representative Thurman: We have just learned that severe cuts in the Department of Labor's FY 2001 appropriations are under consideration by…

reclaiming my time, we have given hope to employers by having skilled workers. We all will hear from our communities about how important these issues are. Let us not shut out the very same people that you talked about giving these programs…

I think that is just a real stretch here. However, I do want to say that I will not vote for the Republican budget resolution and will support the Democratic alternative for lots of reasons. Yesterday on this floor I talked about renewable…

I am going to call this the stay tuned rule, and I call it the stay rule because we are talking about this being an open rule, pre-printed amendments and we go on about that. The problem is that what is going to happen in the next hour or…

I kind of knew this was going to happen, but I still think this is a very important part of the debate that is going on today. It seems that we are talking about a lot of issues that are not coming before this House that, quite frankly…

today we have heard about the 24 million people we supposedly helped last week. Well, let us talk about the 39 million people we could help that are under Medicare. Let me just explain to you that this is a dollars and cents issue for us…

I do just want to say, we had a hearing in the Committee on Ways and Means on prescription drugs, and I will tell you if people are watching this tonight, maybe they will turn on C-SPAN when this hearing is replayed, because it gave us…

But do my colleagues know what is even harder in all of this? It is a moving target on the costs. The target keeps moving for these people. Their incomes are not going up. And all of a sudden one month they go to the pharmacist and the…

it is ridiculous. Let me just give my colleagues some ideas of what happens when they get into the situation. This is a letter, and I have not been able to ask them for permission to use this, so I am just going to kind of read an outset…

another thing that is happening, and the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen) can tell us, too, and certainly from the area that he is from, I mean, I have been absolutely envious of what New England is looking at doing and I think probably…

there are also some other things that are going on. Of course, the Gift of Life pin with the green ribbon symbolizes Organ Donation Days, which is something that we can all participate in. Another is the organ donation stamp, nationally…

Organ donation falls into the category of things you never think will affect you, your friend, your neighbor, or your family. It happens to other people. In this Congress alone, there are several Members who have undergone successful organ…

I want to address this issue that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Weller) keeps bringing up. Our information in numbers is exactly the same as his, but under the Democratic substitute, when signed in law, because it will be the one signed…

Mr. Chairman, as my colleagues on the floor can see, this is a very important issue in Florida. I think the entire Florida delegation is down here to speak on this issue. I might say that I think the reason we feel so passionately about it…

Again through the hearings that we have had, if anybody has been watching the news or reading the newspaper or looking at Newsweek or any one of the organizations that have been writing about what is going on up here, Greenspan both in the…

Maybe another way to put this then is, if we take this surplus, the dollars that are coming in from the payroll taxes, which would be hard-earned folks' money that they spend out of their check, actually would then go to fund a tax cut…

It may be called something else, but the fact of the matter is it is the dollars that are going to have to be spent to cover those people that are on Social Security today and within the system. Now to that, one of the things that John…

One of the other things we have found, not maybe with the Galveston but just generally, particularly when we are using another form of an IRA 401(k), those kinds of issues, again, this comes back to women. In many cases, if they only work…

The average is about 11 years less than what men work in the workforce. And then women live longer. So they have less money as income, they have worked less number of years and then they live longer, so that they are impoverished or they…