Neil Abercrombie

It is of course one man, one vote, because our governing council recently ruled that women would no longer have the political rights that they had under Saddam Hussein. We are going to take a step backward from Saddam Hussein's government…

We now have barbed wire villages. Those images are going all around the world as we speak. We are now creating our own areas of concentration camps and villages complete with identification cards that have to be shown to American soldiers…

All of our assets, human and otherwise, are being concentrated in Iraq, or that area of the world which purports to be Iraq. As the gentleman knows, Iraq is a construct of the post-World War I colonial powers, particularly Great Britain…

This is precisely the point that we are trying to make, and have been trying to make here in Iraq Watch, over and over again. By engaging as we are in Iraq right now, we are actually undermining our capacity to confront terror, whether in…

The reason this has relevance is because these are the people who are formulating the policy. These are the people who are making the case for the foundations of the political policy that we find our troops having to bear the brunt of…

In fact, if one takes into account, and I am looking here at an article in the Wall Street Journal, in an opinion article, ``Politics and People,'' Albert Hunt, ``What Might Have Been,'' and it concerns our good friend and my good friend…

What is coming out of the Committee on Armed Services and what is coming out of the Committee on International Relations, if I understand correctly, is the recommendation to all the Members when it comes to the floor to vote down, vote…

For those in our listening audience and for those Members who may not be thoroughly familiar with what Impact Aid means, you will find that when a child is in a school district as a result of his or her parents being assigned there by the…

What we are doing is saying we are going to put money out there and then figure out a policy afterwards. What I am saying and I think all of us are saying tonight is, let us get the policy down first, and then figure out what it costs and…

I just want to say, and I want this on the Record, he is the man. He is the man on this. He and I have had these discussions in the past; and if there is anybody who understands the issue, anybody who has been more devoted on this issue, I…

The problem we have in the United States now is people are showing up and there are no jobs. They want to have a job. We have lost two-plus million jobs, manufacturing jobs, in this country. There are plenty of people who want to show up…

The answer, I am sorry to say, in my judgment is this has been a clearly articulated policy of people now associated with the administrations who were determined to start a war in Iraq, to include Syria and Iran, because of the policies…

The gentleman's analysis brings forward again the question then: Who benefits from this reconstruction in Iraq? While we cannot have schools built in this country, while we cannot have hospitals paid for, when we cannot get health care for…

I do not think we would be speaking in a Chamber as we are tonight during Special Orders with, again, the press being absent. I will presume perhaps some of them are watching on C-SPAN. We would not have an empty Chamber. On the contrary…

Because they were trying to establish a new doctrine for the United States of preemptive warfare. Not that citations might not have been made with regard to other military actions by the United States in previous times, perhaps up to and…

One closing remark, I do not think the parents and families of the young people who have died make any differentiation between formal and informal. I think those deaths are devastating regardless of the timing associated with it.

Not while we have the opportunity and obligation as Members of the House of Representatives to speak out on behalf of the people of this Nation.

I think that that is what fits into the premise that I am establishing here, that we need to have the press in that gallery paying attention to what is going on here on the floor because this is the only place right now that such a…

I want to preface my remarks with the observation that part of the complaint that is being made across the country with respect to this attack on Iraq and the subsequent war which is now unfolding is that where are people speaking out on…

No one doubts for a moment the motivation of the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers). No one doubts the desire of the body to move forward in this area, not just with dispatch but with a focus that will accomplish the task. The problem I…

I have an article here on what was called a bone-sopping rainy day, hundreds of unemployed people in Waikiki coming hoping they could get a job working on invasive species in Hawaii, to work with their hands in the fields to try to work to…

I am here to tell Members that the State of Hawaii is at risk of bankruptcy if there is not confidence in the people of this country being able to fly. I am not trying to deal with hyperbole, I am not trying to deal in rhetorical flights…

I have to stand, then, with my original reluctance and at the same time say that even after this colloquy I find myself still in opposition, not necessarily to doing it or finding some other solution, but at this particular time, pending…

I rise to honor the Army for 225 years of service to our Nation... the 25th quickly set up its defensive positions to protect Honolulu and Pearl Harbor against possible Japanese attack. I must also mention the heroism during World War II…

So if this bill is passed, regardless of the gentleman's instruction, the gentleman does not intend to include a cost of living allowance for our staffs?