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there are so many success stories that are going on around Katrina and yet we always dwell on things that are not so successful, but I want to talk about the Coast Guard and some of the great things that the United States Coast Guard has…
let us look at the breakfast menu: pancakes with syrup, orange juice, butter and milk or raisin bran cereal or oatmeal and a bagel and orange juice and butter. Then for lunch we have pita bread, hamburger, honey glazed chicken, and…
I stand in support of the comments of the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn). It is too bad more Members are not here, but I think it is proper for the Democrat Members of this Chamber to demand an apology of their Democrat…
as my colleagues know, the United States Senate leadership wants to have an up or down vote on Supreme Court nominees. Why? Because that is what the Senate should be doing: voting yes, voting no. We have heard that the President is…
I wanted to mention, if I can, that we met with the AARP, American Association for Retired People, the largest retirement group in America, and did it on a bipartisan basis. And the gentleman mentioned that the gentleman from Texas (Mr…
that is the year we cut benefits 27 percent unless we do something to protect and preserve the system. So for somebody like the gentleman who retires in 2041, it is going to take them probably 30 years. I do not know the mathematics. He…
I want to speak to that point, though, because I do think it is something on a bipartisan basis we could probably come up with something. I have been working on a lock box bill which was originally the idea of the gentleman from California…
several years ago, I went to a ribbon- cutting on a new road and the road had taken many, many years to build, yet all the politicians who participated in the ribbon-cutting were newly-elected. But in great political fashion, we all stood…
we need to ask ourselves every now and then in a moment of truth on a bipartisan basis what this House is doing. Ethics rules should be there to prosecute somebody who has broken them. The same rules should be there to protect somebody who…
I want to say, even though we are the majority, we still want your ideas. We want the Democrat party to put a plan on the table. On the subject of town meetings, I personally held nine town meetings. There is a lot of division out there as…
well, the month of January went by and nothing happened. The month of February went by and nothing happened. Here we are, it is March, as a matter of fact, it is March 3rd. It looks like nothing is going to happen from the Democrat side to…
I wanted to speak tonight about Social Security and some of the debate that is going on. I want to thank the gentleman from Oregon for putting forth a proposal, because I think it is important for Democrats to put forth proposals, because…
I stand in enthusiastic support of H. Con. Res. 6, which urges the Department of Defense to continue to exercise its statutory authority to support the activities of Boy Scouts of America, and particularly letting them have jamborees on…
last week the Democrats booed when the President laid out his plan for Social Security. I promise one thing: I will not boo when and if they lay out their plan. I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very…
most people will remember Ossie Davis as the deep-voiced actor who paved the way for African-American performers. He helped widen horizons for blacks on stage and screen while fighting for civil rights from Washington to Hollywood. Born in…
I want to speak certainly in favor of the Solomon Amendment and remind my colleagues that it does not apply to institutions of higher education that have had a longstanding practice of pacificism based on historic religious grounds, and it…
I dipped my finger in purple ink today in symbolic unity and in support of the free election in Iraq, the first free election in the history of that country. Their actions this weekend were not about America or necessarily an endorsement…
Mr. Speaker, insurgents in Iraq this weekend had vowed to wash the streets in blood. Yet, despite all their threats of people who were going to get killed and places that were going to be bombed, and indeed 43 people were killed, despite…
in the year 2018, Social Security will start paying out more money than it is bringing in. In the years 2035 to 2042, somewhere in that range, it will be out of money, and it will force a benefit cut of 27 percent. Now, that is not a…
we have been asked by our Democratic colleagues to take this objection to the vote today seriously. We have been told this is not frivolous. Well, we have to ask, why Ohio? Why Ohio, the State that happened to put President Bush over the…
the Marriage Protection Amendment would not prevent any State from enacting civil union laws, but would protect marriage in all 50 States. Recently, I went to a friend, Mr. Sage Brown, who is a distinguished attorney and civil rights…
10 years ago the Republican Party put forth the Contract with America, and it was the first time that collectively Members of Congress had put forth an agenda. And certainly the Democrats did not like it, but 10 years later they are trying…
today we received the long awaited report from the 9/11 Commission, and the 9/11 report I think had some constructive ideas that we in Washington are going to listen to. It was a bipartisan group and they had a lot of good thoughts and…
today the bipartisan 9/11 Commission gave their report to Members of Congress, and I think it was a solid report. It pointed out we just did not have the imagination to perceive our enemies hating us so much that they would use airplanes…
Americans remain frustrated and fed up with the liberal lopsided media. Worse than their decisive liberalness, Americans are tired of the media's pessimism: we cannot have democracy in the Middle East. We have to have the permission of the…
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