Rep. Rahm Emanuel

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here it states, ``37 million Americans get their daily drinking water.'' It's the largest body of fresh water in North America. In fact, it's 90 percent of the water as it relates to body water. In that effort, this is a bipartisan effort…

The freshwater that surrounds Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio is a great national treasure. It provides, as I said, 37 million Americans with their daily drinking water.

Question number one to the minority whip, I would say to you that, of course, there are three branches of government. I don't think anybody in room or in the Chamber needs that explanation. It is the Vice President's lawyer that needs that…

I would like to say that it's true, there is an important constitutional precedent here, and that's why the Vice President should never have claimed that he wasn't part of the executive branch, something any eighth grader knows.

I do appreciate your conversion on the road to Damascus as it relates to fiscal responsibility and spending. And I do believe that after we've seen the highest increase in the Nation's debt in the shortest period of time under a Republican…

The truth is, you don't base your research on one report in a medical journal. You provide leadership. If you go back to the 1950s, we had a polio epidemic in this country that was killing thousands of people, leaving people terminally…

I do appreciate it. As you heard what I said from my friend from California, I said you came to change Washington and to pass lobbying reform. Over 12 years you came to change Washington; Washington changed the Republican Congress. Now, to…

I cannot think of anything better for city that hosts, any time you go to one of its public schools we have across the city 50 some odd languages being spoken, Chinese being spoken in the school, Arabic being taught in the school…

Roosevelt once said, ``We have nothing to fear but fear itself,'' and you have taken that and turned it on its head and said, ``all we have to offer is fear.'' This is a new direction versus a status quo budget. There are clear choices…

Investigators have recently uncovered a letter from the Republican leadership to special interest lobbyists. Dear Lobbyists, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth of thy oil wells, for thou shall have $14.5…

As somebody who worked for President Clinton as his senior advisor, President Clinton did not support, nor did he introduce in his welfare bill, anything that you are saying, and I will say he never promulgated those rules or enforced…

In the original welfare reform bill by President Clinton, this provision was never in it. Second, it was unconstitutional, and it was never promulgated by President Clinton in the rulemaking. He does not support that provision. If you want…

In the Committee on Ways and Means we are debating CAFTA, and market analysts estimate the U.S. economy is losing up to $1.24 billion annually in agricultural exports alone because of the Cuban embargo. According to the USTR, CAFTA would…

The truth is, over the last 5 or 6 years pharmaceutical products have gone up somewhere close to four times, three times the rate of inflation. And every one of us know people in our district who go to get their prescriptions filled. They…

A Republican lobbying firm who has Pharma as its client was offering a bounty of $4,000 per senior if that senior would come forward and say they are having a positive experience under the prescription drug benefit.

This bill is very clear. With the war on terror going on, what this bill says is that every American has their skin in the game. I have seen my Marine units going. And on the war on terror, not all of America is fighting. So when it comes…

What has happened to our troops in Iraq in that time? We lost 184 Americans, our loved ones, bringing the total to 785. As we name post offices, our constituents are asking questions of the whys and hows of Iraq and want us to get the…

He is in constant contact with both the State Department, the White House, and Defense. Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, he never talked to the Iraqi Governing Council. No Iraqi would have given him that advice. I mean, it is the President's…