Peter Deutsch

I do not have the good fortune of having been born a Cuban-American, but having represented the district closest to Cuba for 10 years and having over 200,000 Hispanics, tens of thousands, if not more, Cuban-Americans in my district and…

there is an expression those of us in Florida occasionally use that there are two types of Americans, those that live in Florida and those that want to live in Florida. And if people live long enough, generally that might be where they end…

Mr. Chairman, there is an amendment at the desk that the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings) originally offered. Unfortunately, the mother of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings) is in the hospital, and I know she is in the thoughts…

Mr. Chairman, yesterday eight of the Republican Members in the United States Senate voted not to have the $20 billion grant that is in our bill as a grant. And I have had the opportunity to listen to part of that debate. That debate was…

the DeFazio amendment only deals with our money, not their money. There is every indication that Iraq will remain part of OPEC, will remain part of a monopoly that taxes Americans to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

I would hope that in the conference process that we are about to enter that there is an acknowledgment that OPEC membership and limitation on production capacity is problematic for the United States of America, and we need to focus on that.

one of the things that all of us know is one and one equals two, and I think a very good question for all of us to ask is why are the two parts of this supplemental one part? Why are the military and the reconstruction parts of this bill…

This bill I believe will pass today, but it is somewhat melancholy because at the same time, right after this debate is over, we are going to take up the supplemental bill which includes $20 billion of direct aid to Iraq, and when we talk…

the House bill in front of us, as the ranking Democrat of our full committee has ably quoted the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in his own words, ``To those who say the bill would end Medicare as we know it, the answer is we…

I too join with my colleague in supporting this resolution, but also speaking out really to help educate our colleagues in the country about the 200th adversary of Haitian Flag Day. It is a significant event, the bicentennial of the second…

Mr. Chairman, in the April 22, 2001, edition of the magazine ``Science,'' researcher Irving Weissman and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore said, ``The wrong action here could close the door to an important avenue of scientific and clinical…

As you may know, Ronnie will observe his 92nd birthday soon. In earlier times we would have been able to celebrate that day with great joy and wonderful memories of our life together. Now, while I can draw strength from these memories, I…

many of us here in this Chamber have adopted Cuban political prisoners in order to publicize their unjustified incarceration. We have done so in hopes of helping them to regain their freedom and shed light on the numerous injustices and…

I am very much in support of many provisions in the bill, but the rule, unfortunately, specifically in terms of not protecting two very significant issues on Everglades restoration, I urge my colleagues to look, understand the rule, and…

this is with both great pride and sadness that I rise today to join what I really think are unprecedented spontaneous words of Members to talk about our friend and our colleague, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek). I joined this…

The Karin-A was a ship that Israeli commandos captured that had $20 million of weapons in it and had some very sophisticated weapons right off the shelf from Iran, including rocket launchers, rockets, not just mortars but rockets. The…

It is funny, not funny but tragic, that if it was a Martin Luther King instead of a Yasser Arafat or a Gandhi instead of an Arafat, I think you are absolutely correct because the majority and even with the vote by the Likud Central…

Yasser Arafat in the compound spoke about sending a million, the English translation is as my colleague so ably pointed out, martyrs to Jerusalem. The Arab word is 'shaheed.' If my colleagues were to ask any Palestinian what shaheed means…

But it is interesting, much has been made in terms of who voted against it, why they voted against it, but there were Democrats and Republicans. Again, less than 15 percent of the Congress, but I am going to quote from one of our…

this is just a very small cache of mortars which obviously are illegal under the Oslo Accord.

Let me read, these are different Members, every quote so far this evening has been from a different Member. I will read from another Member: ``We in this body have a constitutional responsibility to protect the national security of the…

I think in the environment we are at we won when we entered the Chamber and I think it is important, and I hope there is a discourse because clearly a number of our colleagues, again less than around 10 percent or so, articulated a…

This is going to be the last document and there is more, but this is dated March 24, 2002, and during the stage of these operations, and this is a copy of minutes of a meeting at the Ramallah headquarters, and Chairman Arafat is in…

They are what they are. Arafat, he was not a terrorist 10 years ago or 5 years ago or a year. He is still a terrorist. He was engaged in terrorist activity continuously, and his words might sound nice at this point in time, but it is not…