At every critical juncture in American history, each preceding generation has been asked to pick between equality and inequality, justice and injustice. In that struggle, our predecessors always tipped the scale in favor of equality and…

two headlines speak volumes about the economic conditions of the middle class in America today: Sunday's New York Times headline, ``Hourly Pay is Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises''; yesterday's Wall Street Journal, ``So Far, Economic…

I have put together a proposal that would affect about 60 percent of the tax filers and get the form down to 12 simple questions and eliminate 200 pages of the code, about 2,000 addendum pages, and it is called the simplified family…

President Kennedy used to say, to govern is to choose, and we all would like to do a lot of things, but we do not have the resources to do everything. As we know, the World Bank is sitting on top of $119 billion in equity, enough to make…

Since 2001 the country has lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs. Now, I offered an amendment which was President Bush's 21st Century Job Initiative in an act of bipartisanship. Let me quote what he said on April 5 when he introduced his…

some people like to make experience the issue for the Vice President of the United States of America. Let me ask how much experience does it take to wave the banner ``Mission Accomplished'' and watch another 700 Americans lose their lives…

as someone concerned with the health of the Great Lakes, I rise in support of H.R. 1856, the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research Amendments Act. I would also like to thank my distinguished colleague from Michigan for offering this…

Inspector General's report released yesterday determined that the Medicare actuary provided accurate cost information about the Medicare bill to a select group of Members of Congress but not to all Members of Congress. This was because the…

just last week the American Association of Retired Persons released a study showing that drug prices rose in the last year by nearly 4 percent in the first quarter of last year, putting us on target for what has happened in the last 5…

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…

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz testified before Congress yesterday that he did not plan or expect an insurgency in Iraq. This observation, from one of the war's architects, whose record includes ridiculing former General of the…

finally, today, the State Department will release the complete and authoritative report on the ``Patterns of Global Terrorism,'' a correction requested by our colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman). The original report…

just yesterday President Bush in the cabinet room said, ``This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.'' Really? Let me read what National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice…

Yesterday in Florida, the Vice President reasserted that there were connections between Saddam Hussein, he said, long established ties between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. This has been proven wrong, and woefully wrong, many times. But as…

here we go again. Lately around this Congress I feel like it is Groundhog Day. I never knew that Bill Murray became a consultant to the Republican Conference. As you know, in the movie Bill Murray's character relived the same day over and…

last week the Associated Press reported that Iraqis are paying 5 cents a gallon for gas in Iraq, 5 cents. Why are Iraqis getting such a good deal? Because the American taxpayer is subsidizing the Iraqis to the tune of $167 million a month…

I do not have stories like the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton), personal interaction with former President Reagan, but as somebody growing up and loving politics, I obviously watched his Presidency as a student of politics. Here was a…

last week we learned from an internal Bush administration budget memo detailing their planned cuts. According to the budget document, education, transportation, Social Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science…

Yesterday, the Health and Human Services rolled out a new Medicare drug card. Yet, today, seniors across America are still wondering when we in Congress will take real steps to help them afford the drugs they need and are prescribed. The…

during the past 3 years, we have seen a tale of two economies and an unprecedented redistribution of wealth in this country resulting in one economy for the middle-class families and one for the special interests. While there have been…

twenty-two million new jobs, the beginning of an economic recession. Lifting 4.3 million families out of poverty, the beginning of an economic recession. Reduction of uninsured in this country from 44 million to 38 million, the beginning…

on April 24, President Bush visited the Timken Company, a plant in Canton, Ohio. He touted there his economic program and his tax cuts. Just the other day in Timken, Ohio, they closed the plant, firing 1,300 employees. The President went…

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…

This Congress in the last 43 days has been in session 14 days. What have we done with our time? We have named 11 post offices, recognized the Garden Club of America, recognized the importance of music education, authorized the use of the…

the past 3 years show a tale of two economies and an unprecedented redistribution of wealth in this country resulting in one economy for middle-class families and one for the special interests. While there is a profits boom for…