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if the gentleman will yield, pointing out the attack on the U.N. Embassy in Baghdad where most of the deaths were Iraqi citizens, and, of course, the Ambassador from Brazil who had spent his entire professional life in trying to promote…
The gentleman is so right, and of course, people want to say, well, we have not found any weapons of mass destruction, we have not killed or captured Saddam Hussein, so we have not accomplished the mission, the reason we went there; but of…
I am glad that the gentleman was part of a group that recently was in Iraq who could see for themselves and understand that, as he points out, how much progress is being made. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot of discussion, of course, about…
I want to remind them that it is inappropriate, indeed, out of order, for a Member of Congress to speak in this House from this well and to suggest that the President is lying, that the President is untruthful, that the President deceived…
And, as the chairman just mentioned, it is not all about funding; it is certainly also about accountability. That is what we are trying to do in the reauthorization of the Title II part of the Higher Education Act: We want to bring…
I have delivered probably 5,000 or more babies over a 30-year medical career; but I will be prouder today of this delivery that we are giving to our seniors, that we have promised them for the last 2 years. Finally today that delivery will…
Mr. Speaker, as a physician Member of this body, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003. I do not take lightly voting for a Federal program that expends $400 billion of the…
I must say I absolutely deny being there at the inception of Medicare; maybe it was close, but not at the inception.
when we extrapolate that, and I have gotten verification of these numbers from the gentlewoman from Connecticut, the chairman of the Health Subcommittee under the Committee on Ways and Means who has done so much work on this bill, and I…
I personally do not need that $3 million exemption or even the $600,000 exemption. I would probably be fine with a $300,000 exemption; but the point is, it is a double taxation and it is wrong. It is wrong to tax anybody twice on the same…
I stand here and I am listening to the other side and all of the discussion I hear is about a tax bill, and it just makes me wonder if the speakers from the other side plan to vote against this bill, if they are opposed to keeping children…
I think my colleague did an excellent job of emphasizing something that is so important for all of us to keep in mind, which is that this is first of all an option that seniors have. And as the gentleman from Georgia was talking about, it…
I practiced medicine, an OB-GYN practice, for over 28 years; and, of course, most of my patients were fairly young, in the child-bearing age range, and I did not really see a lot of Medicare patients. However, if I were back in that…
It is the only way to terminate a pregnancy without delivering a live born child. These pregnancies can be terminated by injecting saline or they can be terminated by performing a cesarean section, but the problem there is it is a live…
The gentleman from Texas earlier talked about other late-term pregnancy termination procedures other than this one we know as partial-birth abortion. I do not know exactly what he or you are referring to.
I have come before the American people today to express my deep concern over the situation affecting our domestic airlines. Today we will be voting to appropriate a supplemental budget. Within this budget there will be much needed, in…
When we have legislation in this body, often times we come up with an acronym. In this particular bill, the HEROES Act, Higher Education Relief Opportunity Act for Students, what a great acronym for H.R. 1412, because truly we are talking…
I rise in support of H.R. 1104, the Child Abduction Prevention Act, which provides for the national coordination of the AMBER Alert communications network and strengthens criminal penalties for kidnappers, child molesters, and the sexual…
Mr. Chairman, as the Nation's resource center for child protection, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children spends 94 percent of its revenue directly on programs and services. Due to their commitment to spend their resources…
Mr. Speaker, as we know, this bill, of course, is applicable to those States that have not addressed this issue. Certainly the State of West Virginia and others who have finally tackled this issue, as they did in California in 1978, I…
As an OB/GYN Member of the body, I think I have a unique perspective on this issue, not only as a physician who has delivered more than 5,000 babies and seen many of my colleagues giving up their practice because of fear of runaway…
The answer is no, it takes away no one's economic rights. What in H.R. 5 is the gentleman pointing out to me or suggesting that takes away a person's right to economic recovery?
Indeed, Madam Speaker, Texas, just as Pennsylvania, just as West Virginia, just as Georgia, is one of those crisis States. According to a Texas Medical Association poll of Panhandle doctors, 61 percent, 61 percent, have plans to retire…
Madam Speaker, in closing, as I said at the outset of the hour, this bill is not about denying access to a redress of grievances, if you will, for a patient who has been injured by a physician or a facility who is practicing below the…
I want to share some examples of excessive costs for liability concerns. Consider this: an April 2002 survey of physicians showed that nearly 80 percent have ordered more tests than medically needed because the doctors feared being sued…
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