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Let me again mention a follow-up to that point directly. The modern State of Israel, as the gentleman pointed out on his chart, is 54 years old, and there are still many in the Palestinian community who again do not accept Israel's right…
Israel wants a peace partner. Israel wants to have peace. Israel offered what we have discussed previously. They have negotiated with Chairman Arafat. But I think what has occurred in the present time is not that Arafat might or might not…
This legislation very well might go down as the very most important piece of legislation that this Congress passes in this session. It has not gotten the most attention at this point in time, and I hope what it tries to prevent does not…
I plead with my Republican colleagues, I plead for them at so many different levels, that without the confidence in the airlines, there was a reason why we chose the airline industry to provide relief to. There are other issues that we can…
As most Americans are aware, National Airport has reopened. National Airport is now probably the safest airport in America, because my understanding is they are actually screening every bag. This is not new technology. Israel is…
April 1, 1999. Florida, the State of Florida, has an unusual driver's license. You do not get rephotographed. There is a sticker on the back that you can take a look at, which is when you renew it you actually get a sticker that you put on…
I have the same perspective that the President of the United States does and I believe the vast majority of Americans do, that we, in fact, are at war. We are at war with an enemy that has attacked this country with horrific results, 6,000…
this is my 10th year in this Chamber; and I will tell my colleagues that I still have goose bumps when I walk into this Chamber every day, even after 10 years, because we are part of not just the greatest Chamber in the history of the…
Mr. Speaker, I have been attempting to personalize this issue as much as I can. One of the things I would ask my colleagues to do is look at some of the lists of groups that are supporting the Greenwood-Deutsch amendment in opposition to…
I want each of us as Members to think about, and I think my colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood), did this as well as I have heard anyone ever do on this floor, think about some of the most awful stories of the human…
reclaiming my time, why is this about stem cell research? As I said, what the American people have said, and I was talking about in vitro fertilization, that we have the ability to take these embryos and do research on them to literally…
I agree with the gentlewoman 100 percent, which is one of the reasons to defeat this rule. In my 9 years in this Chamber, this is the least informed collectively that the 435 Members of this body have ever been on any issue, and in many…
Let us be very, very clear to each other and to the American people. Both of those bills absolutely totally ban human cloning. I am going to say that again so there is no debate on that. They absolutely, totally ban human cloning. There is…
everyone in this Chamber agrees, and we have been here for about an hour and three-quarters, everyone in this Chamber agrees that we should ban human cloning, period. Everyone. There is consensus here. Mr. Speaker, both pieces of…
this is an issue that, from my district at least, is a local issue. I represent a district that is 90 miles from the shores of Cuba and people visit under the existing process right now. But one of the things that has been talked about, as…
I would take second place to no one in this Chamber in my faith and my belief in God. I would take second place to no one in this Chamber in terms of my personal commitment to supporting faith-based organizations. But I cannot support the…
I would yield to no Member of this House in terms of my efforts to lower prescription drug costs for seniors in America. I support the efforts of the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) to allow importation of drugs from outside the…
I support the gentleman's efforts, but again, as a place holder, we do not do place holders, we do real amendments. We do real law. And, unfortunately, I understand the limitations that the gentleman had in the appropriations process, and…
I support Stiltsville. This is not about Stiltsville. What this is about is freeloaders in a national park. These people are not owners. These are leaseholders. The people that own that property is us, the people of the United States of…
this is really an exciting day, I think a great day, for our Congress; and I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cantor) for bringing this resolution in front of us. It is clearly a bipartisan effort from both sides of the aisle, but it…
I wish that this bill literally had tens of billions of dollars of more aid for peace in the Middle East, because I think all of us know that, had there been a closure at the Camp David meeting, that we would have been asked to do that. I…
This is a great day, not just for the Everglades in South Florida but really for Florida and America and truly the entire country. This is Congress at its best, really doing the work of the American people in creating legislation that…
this year we celebrate the 35th anniversary of Medicare. The program has benefited over 93 million Americans since it was signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Johnson. Yet, our health care system has changed dramatically since…
But as representatives of the people, we must put patient health ahead of profits and vote no on these unfair and unwarranted patent extension requests.
With so much profit at stake, we can expect brand drug companies to do everything in their power to delay the expiration of those patents.
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