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Okay. A 33-year-old senior moment. I just wanted to mention something real quick that I think is important. There is going to be a lot of talk tomorrow. We are going to do some good legislation. We have stem cell research that is coming…
And on and on under Republican control. So I think it is very important for everyone to understand when we have legislative leadership, the writers of Constitution said there is going to be a legislative, an executive, a judicial. They did…
Mr. Ryan, you did take it like a man. We were watching the game together, and it was great for college football and great for all of us here in the country to see the underdog win. And it kind of tells our story here in the U.S. House of…
it is an outright shame what the Republican majority has done. They have expressed themselves as the rubber-stamp Republican majority to the Bush White House. As you know, yesterday we took a vote here on this floor as relates to going…
I want to commend Chairman Rogers for both of us working together, along with the members of our subcommittee and also full committee. I think that this bill is about retention, recruitment and respect for the men and women of the U.S…
The reason why they have been very secretive in classifying everything is that the Congress has not demanded more, not only for Members of Congress such as myself who serve on two national security committees here, either be Homeland…
Mr. Delahunt, I am going to yield after I mention something, about 2 minutes, to Ms. Wasserman Schultz, because the facts are what they are. It is what it is. We are highlighting these. Because we are using third-party validators, Mr…
I am just going to put it to you this way. Anyone that speaks the truth, some may say truth to power, those individuals that are trained, that are educated, that have been in the Armed Services as the two-star general has been, and has…
This has now gone far beyond party loyalty. I mean, this is when you take off your partisan hat, and you have to say this is for protection of not only the U.S. troops but also the people of the United States of America.
I can tell you, Mr. Delahunt, and with Mr. Ryan being here, as we are both members of the Armed Services Committee, of course there hasn't been a hearing. Mr. Delahunt, if I may, I just want to top shelf my rubber stamp again. It would be…
So just for balance we need a Democratic House. We need a Democratic Congress that will bring balance and will ask the ``but'' question or maybe we need to call this individual in and understand more about things because we are the…
I would just say, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, we will have the appropriate fire, with all fire codes, because we have to do away with this. Mr. Ryan, I want to thank you for taking on the additional couple of minutes so that we can fully share…
Thank you very much, Madam Leader, for coming down. You definitely cement what we have been talking about for 3 years on this floor. Mr. Speaker, we had it from the top person. If we have an opportunity to lead this House, and we sure hope…
Mr. Ryan, let me say this: Since we are getting into the debate of who can be appointed or what have you, I could be a millionaire, but I am not. Let me just say this, and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, either. But let…
Thank you. Mr. Ryan, I look forward to continuing, until the clock runs out on this Congress, to continue to come down to the floor to share with the American people. Mr. Speaker, we can't get any higher than where we are right now as it…
When you talk about minimum wage, I can tell you right now, as it relates to the middle-class squeeze on families, especially as it relates to lower incomes and higher costs, these are rising health care costs up here. And here are the…
The COPS program is something that the Association of Police Chiefs wants; it is what the Association of Sheriffs wants. It is something that local communities, Mr. Speaker, they want it. The cops support community-oriented policing…
I think it is important, I think it is very, very important that we shed light on what has actually happened here in this Chamber and what has not happened. There are a lot of pieces of legislation that are coming to the floor as we close…
This was a fund-raiser to raise money for the police officers who lost their lives here protecting the Capitol, to make sure that their children have an opportunity to go to college and be all that they can be. Mr. Ryan got caught up into…
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, I think it is important that we take this in a very serious manner. Even though it is Eastern Standard Time, it is approximately 11:20 p.m., and we have worked a full legislative day. We have a full legislative day…
The facts are what the facts are. Some individuals say it is what it is. And the bottom line is we have a rubber-stamp Republican majority. I do not spend a lot of time, Mr. Speaker, talking about what the White House should have done and…
Mr. Delahunt, when I came and shared with you the positive message, I mean, when I said the positive message, I wanted to make sure that people understand there are people here in the Congress willing to work in a bipartisan way to make…
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, I can tell you that as you start to go down the line of the facts and not fiction of what has happened and what has not happened here in this House, you can't help but think that we only have tomorrow that we will be…
No money. Yes, we are going to build this fence. It is going to be for 200, or if someone sat in the back room somewhere off the chamber and said, do not make it 200, make it a 300-mile fence, let's build a fence all of the way, let's put…
Thank you. A Doug Flutie Hail Mary pass when the clock has now hit almost 0:00 and trying to sensationalize a speech or just saying that, well, I will just say this even though it is not true. I know it is not true. And we even have…
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