Rep. Corrine Brown

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…

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 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…

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…

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 did not support it because it did not include almost any of those elements that we are discussing here tonight.

For every billion dollars that we spend on infrastructure, it generates 49,000 jobs. If we want to stimulate the economy, then we should invest in the building up of our infrastructure and tie it to homeland security.

Well, we all know that Fast Track is not the solution, because I used to represent a rural district. I know my colleague from North Carolina currently represents a rural district, and we lost our jobs.

What stands out most in my mind is that the economic stimulus package that passed this House, that I did not vote for, gave more tax breaks to a certain segment. I call them the country club tax breaks. I say it is the reverse Robin Hood…

Just one last point. Recently, for the past couple of weeks I have been flying into Orlando. Orlando aviation has over 30 million people flying through there. It was very disturbing that nobody was there. Why? Because if you want to…

Many of us went to Ground Zero a couple of weeks ago, over 100 Members of Congress, and everyone talked about the physical devastation. What stands out most in my mind was the number of people that lost their lives. We cannot put that back…

It was disgusting. They were talking about why were we rushing. I would have passed the bill on September 12. Here we are 7 weeks later and we are rushing? I am on the House Committee on Transportation and the Infrastructure. We have not…

Some of the changes are just cosmetic. Unless we agree to screen all of the luggage, have background checks and communication between the FBI and CIA and the airport security, it does not work. We need to put a system in place that…

We understand who runs the House. People talk about we are working together, but the proof is in the pudding. Let us pass an aviation security bill for the people of the United States.

Twenty-seven thousand of my constituents were disenfranchised in the last election. The whole nature of the last presidential election, from the roadblocks set up in black areas, to innocent people labeled as felons and kicked off the…

Election reform is a priority for the American people and it should be a priority for this Congress. We should never forget that 180,000 uncounted ballots were cast in Florida last November. Florida has not forgotten. Unfortunately…

H.R. 4844 is long overdue. Railroad labor, widows and widowers will gain enhanced benefits as a result of this self-financing legislation. I am particularly thrilled that the 4.3 cents/gallon tax repeal is not a part of this legislation…

I speak from Florida, and let me just say to my colleague from Florida (Mr. Stearns), we are being hurt most by this, not one program left in your county in Marion County. This Republican bill is a slap in the face to every senior citizen…

Do not be fooled by the spinmasters on the right. They are solving a problem that does not even exist, while the poorest in America who do not enjoy our great prosperity continue to be ignored by the leadership of this House. We need real…

Also, there has been a shift in the vegetation and wildlife in communities around the lake because of the polluted facility.

But, as I said, there has been a shift in the usage because of the contamination of the lake.

In reviewing the bill, I was very concerned that Florida was not represented in the bill. Of course this lake is crucial to the State of Florida.

Can my colleagues imagine Florida saying, courses that one has to take, they are going to put them on the Internet? Even though they are wired, they are not hooked up. My colleagues can go to schools in my district, and half of the schools…

I am certainly hoping that everybody from Florida will take a real close look at this proposal because I do not think it should be a Democratic or a Republican proposal. I think this proposal should be one that benefits the people…