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July 18, 2013
I want you to know that what has happened here is not acceptable, here, nowhere in Florida, nowhere in the country, and nowhere in the world.
— Rep. Corrine Brown
I want to thank Chairmen Young and Duncan, and Mr. Oberstar and Ms. Johnson for their hard work in bringing this bill to the floor. Like the TEA-LU bill, we have been waiting several years to pass this important legislation. These water…
I am here tonight to say that I cannot believe that this supplemental bill is handing over billions and billions of dollars in reconstruction funding to Iraq through direct grants . . . let me repeat that--Direct Grants! And where do these…
This irresponsible Republican budget needs to be sent back to the drawing board. The war in Iraq is no reason to ignore the needs of this country. This budget cuts programs for our neediest citizens, while rewarding the wealthiest with…
Mr. Speaker, we have a good bill with lots of important provisions, including new matching grants to improve port security, a national security card for port workers and truck drivers, antiterrorism response teams and sea marshals, and…
Yes, sir. Let me just say as far as the bill is concerned that it is still the same flawed bill that this House passed in August. The problems with creating an agency of this size are still there. I do not see any new solutions. This bill…
I do have a question for Chairman Young at the appropriate time. I want to make my statement and put it in the Record, but on that same subject as far as the gun provision as put in the Record and the colloquy, can you clarify for me…
I stand in strong support today of the Lee substitute, which I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of. I wholeheartedly support the principles of this substitute, and believe they contain a much more humane answer to the grave issue of…
I know this is not a perfect bill, but it is the perfect beginning. I say that over and over again because, as I stand here today, 27,000 of my constituents' votes were thrown out because of old equipment. Do my colleagues hear me…
I stand before the Members today, one of three African Americans sent to the United States Congress 10 years ago, the first time in 129 years that Florida sent an African American to Congress from the great State of Florida; the scene of…
I would just make a quick comment to the family. My favorite scripture is ``To whom God has given much, much is expected.'' Our colleague has given much to this country on women's issues and on education. She has done her work. We have to…
today, September 24, I stand before this body in our Nation's Capitol, nearly 2 years after the Supreme Court selected the President of the United States. To this day nothing has been done, while the American people wait and wait. No new…
the first agency to respond to the terrorist act on September 11 was the United States Coast Guard. Within minutes, they were guarding our ports, bridges and waterways. It was so reassuring to know that they were out there protecting us…
Mr. Speakers, it matters who is in charge. This Republican leadership must think the American people are stupid. Last week they raised $30 million dollars in a fund raiser with the drug companies, and this week we have a prescription drug…
I had the Committee on Government Reform do a study in my district, and we compared what the seniors in the Third Congressional District of Florida pay. We pay 131 percent more for a brand-name prescription than other consumers and 98…
Let me just say that I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding, but I want to also thank her for her leadership on this matter. We both share the great State of Florida, and we also share the many problems. Being one of the oldest aging…
tomorrow, in my district in Orlando, President Bush will be visiting the Marks Community Center on Physical Fitness, and we thank him. I have a lot of seniors in my district, but besides physical fitness, they need the prescription drug…
today is another sad example of why it matters who is in charge. We see today what the priorities are for this house leadership. For Republicans, the answer to every problem we have in this nation, and we have plenty, is tax cuts. The…
it is truly an outrage that we are here today debating how much money that we are going to spend on the weakest when the President and the Republican leadership want to make permanent tax cuts in this country to their country club friends…
I held up this picture earlier, and this is Rile-ya Wilson has been missing in the State of Florida for 15 months. Now we are talking about super block granting the money to the State where we have no accountability. In Florida, we have…
there is two words to describe what is wrong with this welfare bill: Rile-ya Wilson, this beautiful baby. Right now, this 5-year-old child from my State is missing somewhere in this country, and this Congress wants to give full…
I have been elected for 20 years, 10 years in this House, and in that time period I have seen all kinds of welfare. The bill we passed last year, $94 billion to the farmers, the percentage of the farmers is 2 percent of the population. I…
I am on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and have been on that committee for the entire 10 years I have been here in this Congress. Let me tell my colleagues I am very upset over the fact that we have a budget before this Congress…
I cannot begin to explain how important this legislation is to the homeless service providers in our hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. Unless this legislation is passed and signed into law, two long-time agencies will stop serving their…
as we pause for the holiday, the loyal opposition party is bent on giving out huge handouts for their country club friends for Christmas. Meanwhile, most Americans, especially minorities, go on suffering the economic consequences of 9-11…
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