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The people that I talk to do not want a government that puts them in debt. They do not want their children and grandchildren to be paying, having to bail out the country for this tax cut that is being passed this year because of the size…

Mr. Speaker, it is more than a coincidence that the major pieces of legislation that this Congress does are always done late at night when not very many people are watching. Tonight, Mr. Speaker, the House will pass and send to the Senate…

An American who makes a million dollars or more would get $93,530 of tax cuts on the average. If you make between $20,000 and $30,000 a year, you get $15 a month. If you make between $30,000 and $40,000 a year, you get a little bit less…

I have handled the defense authorization rules on this floor for 25 years; and when we were in the majority, we always made in order the main issues of contention under the defense bill. Sometimes they were amendments that I personally…

It is often said if you repeat a lie often enough, people begin to believe it. Our record $350 billion deficit, the Republican Congress tells us that does not matter. The fact that this Republican administration has asked us not once, but…

here we are again, at quarter to eleven, the shades of darkness have fallen, and we have to ask ourselves a question, at least I do: Is the other side not particularly competent? Is that why we are here this late at night, as we always are…

as I was saying at a press conference last week, not since Watergate and Richard Nixon 30 years ago have government agencies been used for domestic political purposes. And now, as in Watergate, we have the smoking gun. Today's issue of the…

when it comes to supporting America's troops, there is no partisan divide in this Congress. Democrats and Republicans join together in saluting the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who serve America. More importantly, we work to…

I would urge Republicans, my Republican colleagues here in Washington and Republicans around the country, to tell Tom DeLay, as Barry Goldwater told Richard Nixon, this is not the kind of country we have.

I rise this morning to honor 51 Texas patriots, members of the Texas Legislature currently in Ardmore, Oklahoma, who are standing tall to defend Texas against the thirst of additional power of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), the…

there is a very important event occurring in the State of Oklahoma right now. Fifty-one very brave, patriotic Texans are in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and they are there for a reason. They are there to protest the heavy-handed actions by…

the rule poses a serious threat to the American economy because it prevents the House from considering anything other than the same old failed Bush economics that have left America with the weakest economy in a generation. Now, when I am…

by passing this conference report today, Congress can finally end the 6 months of political maneuvering that have delayed my legislation to help set up a nationwide network of AMBER Alerts. The AMBER plan was named for a young girl, Amber…

Mr. Speaker, the issues of war in Iraq and homeland security are among the most important issues that Members of this House will ever have to deal with. They are incredibly important to our constituents and, indeed, have implications…

Right now, Mr. Speaker, the brave men and women of the U.S. military are, once again, proving themselves to be the finest fighting force in history. On the ground, in the seas, and in the skies over Iraq, our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and…

the underlying bill, the Social Security Protection Act, is largely noncontroversial. Its main provisions would deny supplemental security income, SSI, to fugitive felons, make it easier for seniors to get a lawyer for the complicated…

vote ``no'' on the previous question so we can help all those who are unfairly penalized in their pension benefits simply because one spouse is a government employee and one works for the private sector. Let us support those who go into…

Mr. Speaker, they understand that the AMBER system works. It has helped to recover 52 abducted children, five of them in the month of March alone; but it does not work where it does not exist, and the AMBER Alert Network Act will help set…

Mr. Speaker, I am going to make a lengthy statement in just a moment, but I think it should be made clear to people who may be watching this on television, listening to this, Members listening to this in their offices or watching it, what…

It was once observed many years ago in the pre-television age that there are two things that you do not want to see happen. One is the making of sausage and the other is the making of legislation. But, of course, now we see the making of…

Let us be clear what is going on here. I may have misunderstood my colleague from Georgia, a member of the Committee on Rules. I think he said that I did not support the larger bill. That is not the case. I support the larger bill, the…

the war to remove the grave threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his regime's weapons of mass destruction has begun. Throughout this mission, the men and women of our Armed Forces will have the unwavering support of Congress and the American…

Mr. Speaker, there is something in politics called having a tin ear. That means being totally oblivious to everything around you. Right now we have troops in the field, a war has begun, and we should be doing everything we can to speak…

But I would suggest that the $1 trillion tax cut forced through by the new administration is the main reason why we face the deficits we have today. The $1 trillion, which primarily benefited the wealthy, forced through by the new…

I could not give her an answer! After a lengthy conversation about how the Amber Alert has been politicized, she asked me if there was anything she could do to help pass it. We decided to draft this letter. As you know, I can't express…