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I would like to talk to you for a second about Specialist Sean Walsh. Sean served for two tours of duty in Iraq in the 933rd Military Police Company in the 16th Airborne Brigade of the United States Army. He protected main supply routes…
what I find most intriguing about this discussion is that those who are unemployed, to get this benefit, paid for this insurance policy. This is their money. When times were good, they put money away to unemployment insurance. And when…
Alaska is not today. There are 9,300 permits that have been issued today for onshore drilling not being exercised by the oil companies. But the fact is, by law our companies cannot drill in ANWR, they cannot drill in the Outer Continental…
The fact is a lot of people want to talk about you have to have a balanced approach. That's true. You do have to have some drilling. There are 9,300 permits owned by the oil companies here in the United States for drilling that they do not…
It's ironic that it took 4 years to close this offshore loophole. But we are shutting it down and paying for all these other benefits to ensure that this company and other companies like it who set up in the Cayman Islands do not go around…
About a week ago, this Congress passed the most comprehensive update of the GI Bill of Rights for both Active Duty, Guard and Reserve soldiers. We follow up that legislation with what we are doing today to also update our laws as relates…
In 2005, when the Republican Congress passed the President's energy bill, let me tell you what some folks said. The minority leader at that time says, ``This will lower energy prices for consumers.'' The minority whip, Mr. Blunt, said…
picking up on what my colleague from Connecticut said, which is nobody says this is a panacea, but all experience shows, both the Harvard study and the Department of Energy study, shows that about 20 percent, which would be about $25 a…
That is the strategy we are talking about. This is the right thing to do. It has been proven that when we have instrumented this tool, that is to stop purchasing from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, that in fact there will be immediate…
in 1993, when professional baseball owners were deciding how to rehabilitate the reputation of baseball after the players' strike, they debated whether to enact a wild-card rule to allow the second place team into the playoffs. Only one…
let me just say to the simplification of the student loan form--actually, it happened to be my first bill--which is to take the 106 questions, 8 pages long, down to commonsense English, cut it in half, and the good news is that, in fact…
And the way this was discovered was on a worker who was laid off with 10,000 employees, went to go collect unemployment insurance and was told no, you don't have the money for that because you didn't pay insurance. He said no, I work for…
to pick up on my colleague's comments about fairness, one of the provisions in this legislation deals with closing the loophole for KBR, a former Halliburton subsidiary, that used the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes. And that is, it…
Mr. Speaker, we are having a conversation here about trade and globalization and about how to make sure that, in fact, globalization is a win-win strategy for the American people. And we were talking about Colombia, but what we really are…
No conversation about trade is ever about trade. It's about the standard of living of the middle class of this country. Globalization could be a good thing if you have an agenda, and just trade alone is not an agenda to make sure that the…
this week, or just today, rather, it was found out, we discovered and it was reported, that the United States is running a $176 billion deficit in February alone. Earlier this week, we also found out that the Iraqis have a surplus of over…
I'd like to thank my chairman. While other speakers have noted some of the shortcomings and their reluctant support, I enthusiastically support this legislation. Unlike the 2001-2003 tax cuts, in 2001, 36 percent of the tax benefit went to…
A lot of people have mentioned that in fact this extension will cover the children that presently are in the program. That is half true and half not true. Kids who are on the program will be covered. But if you live in 14 States in the…
Okay. I come from a family. I believe politics is a good thing, because we have differences, and you work them out on election day and the American people make a decision, except for when you do special redistricting. But usually you let…
The fact is there have been a million additional children in the last year and a half whose parents work full-time who don't have health care and this would cover. And to the other point you said, actually there have been Democratic and…
First of all, it wasn't part of welfare reform. Welfare reform had a 1-year transitional for Medicaid. It wasn't part of that, which is a point you made. Second is, SCHIP was so successful, while the rest of the population actually had an…
in less than 12 months this Congress will do what previous Congresses have failed to do for 32 years. Today, after 32 years of failure, we can take America's energy policy in a new direction. And that failure was through Democratic…
more than 40 years ago, this House stood up in the name of America and did the right thing and passed sweeping civil rights legislation to protect men and women of all races from discrimination. By widening the circle of freedom to include…
I first want to thank both the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, also Congressman Levin, as well as the minority leader, Congressman McCrery, for their leadership on this issue. This bill picks up exactly where the last trade…
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