Neil Abercrombie

I do think that people nonetheless come to conclusions. They nonetheless reserve judgment, if they are prudent, and when they think that they have heard the facts and contemplated the factual basis for a judgment, they then make it.

Yes. The proposal coming from the President, with all attendant difficulties associated with balancing the budget, nonetheless, has as its priorities the Medicare, Medicaid, environment and education. Those are priorities that the…

I am sure many of our Republican friends, if not all of them, esteem education, including the Speaker. The problem is not esteem. The problem is paying for it. The problem is setting it as a priority. The problem is do you have education…

Of course, they are claiming now a deal cannot be reached, that we cannot come to an agreement even through the American people in poll after poll and inquiry after inquiry are requesting, is the nicest way I can put it, the Government…

Oh, yes. It gave them exactly what they wanted. As you know, the old saying is be careful what you ask for, you might get it. That is exactly what happened. What they asked for was a game plan according to the rules that they said they…

Well, they did not like the numbers. After all, it did not do to Medicare what they wanted to do.

The answer to that question comes from the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich], and he said that he felt that the 7-year was intuitive on his part. Now, if intuitive is taken to mean generally or generically a kind of sense that this was…

That request was made of the President over and over and over again, and obviously a brief reading and overview of the general press will show that he did, in fact, do exactly that.

I would like to reiterate it at this juncture by way of asking a rhetorical question of the gentleman from Texas, precisely because I think he has made the case on the face of it for not getting into a situation in which we attach other…

One would think, would one not, that if it were perfectly safe, that they could conduct this test in the bay at Marseille in France? If the tests are perfectly safe, why do they not conduct them in the channel off the French coast? If the…

Is it not then the case, would you agree, that if it was, in fact, safe and it could be done in France or it could be done in the seas in the waters surrounding France, and it has not been done and has been done in the South Pacific, that…

I think if people were not making the association between cuts and/or additions arguments that are made in Medicare and Medicaid, in the context of a tax cut, if we could remove that tax cut from the context, I think that this argument…

Then, excuse me, why would you not then want to take the $270 billion out of it? Why not apply it toward the $7,100?

50 years ago this year Senator Daniel Inouye was fighting to liberate Italy from Nazi oppression. He lost his arm and almost his life, as did many other American soldiers of Japanese ancestry. What a savage irony it is that Senator Inouye…

I do insist on my appeal. Respectfully, I am not targeting the Chair. The people of this country are being targeted.

I find myself discussing this not as a question of partisanship, not as a question of Democrats versus Republicans. I do not find myself in a position, Mr. Chairman--and I refer again to my good friend, the gentleman from California, and…

I say to my colleagues, ``Now you want to be family friendly? I'm all for family friendly, but don't anybody come and tell this Member that in the name of family friendly that we are not going to do our business in a proper fashion. Every…

Would the gentleman agree, for those of us who have served in State legislatures, who have served on county councils, who have dealt with budgets at the local level and the State level, that members of county councils, boards of…

Would the gentlewoman characterize the reaction perhaps in her district as I find in my district, that people are under the impression that we may be giving this money to the Mexican Government? And would it be a fair characterization to…

Is it a correct assumption that if they have not paid any of the debt that you have mentioned so far and are unable to pay anything on that which we are going to advance them, that they will be combined and the taxpayers in America will…

Would the gentlewoman kindly explain what that means, if we become their insurance company? What obligation does the taxpayer in America have if there is a default by the Mexican oligarchy?

I consider the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] to be my good friend. Now that is said on this floor probably more often than not, and maybe it is thought to be a rhetorical flourish, but in this instance I think the gentleman…

Mr. Speaker, I attempted to talk to the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Cooper] about his statement and to establish a perspective on this issue, and I was unable to do so. So, I will take advantage of the 1-minute segments that are given to…