since April 1, 42 days, the House has been in session 12 of those 42 days; and in that period of time, we have lost 171 of our fellow citizens, bringing the total to 772. While that was happening, what has Congress done? We have named…

Mr. Speaker, since everybody wants to talk about the 1997 plan and what we did, just so we can all have a rendezvous with the record here, in fact we cut taxes on middle-class families with the introduction of the $500-per-child tax cut…

Since April 1, 163 soldiers died in Iraq, bringing the total to 767. Yesterday, the administration announced that it will keep our current troop level through 2005, and that we will need another $25 billion on top of the $112 billion…

today in Iraq, 138,000 American troops are putting their lives on the line. Despite the President's ``Mission Accomplished'' declaration, more of our brave service men and women died last month since any month since the war in Iraq. Deputy…

President Kennedy once said, ``An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. Today, Members of this House and…

What we have here is what never has been tried in history. We are waging three wars with three tax cuts that have resulted in $500 billion of annual deficits and a $3 trillion increase in the debt. What has passed here in the year 2001…

I would like to review this week as it relates to the Medicare prescription drug bill. It started with the Secretary of Health and Human Services announcing on Monday, given the confusion over the Web site that they had put up, that they…

In 1993 and 1997, we both reduced the deficit and in 1997 balanced the budget by cutting taxes for working families and middle class families who were trying to meet their obligations to their children and their families. We did not make a…

Congress is now working on a final budget, a $2.3 trillion budget with a $521 billion deficit. That deficit shows that it is impossible to finance three wars with three tax cuts and expect a different result. Never before has anybody waged…

30 years ago President Bush and Senator Kerry received their reviews from their respective commanders. Lieutenant Kerry, from Lieutenant Commander George Elliott: ``Lt. Kerry frequently exhibited a high sense of imagination and judgment in…

today's New York Times states that middle-class families are being edged out of the prestigious universities by rising costs of college education. Access to college for middle-class families has worsened over the last few years, another…

The first lesson in life your parents teach you and your first grade teacher teaches is one learns from their mistakes. That is the first lesson in life. Usually by 8 in the morning my wife has identified four of them for me. By 5 when I…

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…

I know we want to get back to our friend from Washington State, but people remember in the first Gulf War, which cost $60 billion, the United States paid $5 billion of that $60 billion and we were part of a larger international effort that…

Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes are the largest body of freshwater in North America. They contain literally 20 percent of the entire world's freshwater. Twenty-eight million Americans get their daily drinking water from Lake…

prior to our recess, the House voted on a $2.3 trillion budget with a $521 billion deficit, showing that it is impossible to finance three wars with three tax cuts. This budget, the budget by the President and Republican majority, repeats…

when the House voted on the Medicare bill, we and the American people were told its cost was $400 billion. Later, we found out that the Bush administration and congressional leaders knew all along it would cost actually $550 billion. What…

Before the House voted on the Medicare bill, the public was told it would cost $400 billion. Later, we found out that the administration knew all along it would cost $550 billion. Congress was misled by an administration that hid the…

the House is on the verge of passing a $2.3 trillion budget with a $521 billion deficit, showing that it is impossible to finance three wars with three tax cuts and come up with a different result outside of a $521 billion hole in the…

later this week the House is on the verge of passing a $2.3 trillion budget with a $500 billion deficit, showing that it is impossible to finance three wars with three tax cuts. This budget repeats the same mistakes that have resulted in a…

when we were off a couple of months ago debating the Medicare bill, we were told it was going to cost $400 billion. We found out all along everybody knew it would cost $550 billion, and nobody was told the absolute truth. Most importantly…

What galls me a little about this whole subject is that not only are we paying the most expensive prices in the world but all the research that the pharmaceutical industry does is subsidized by the taxpayers. They write it off fully, 100…

Right. First of all, 2 years ago is the last year for which we have data, and the data shows that the United States imports $15 billion, just shy of $15 billion a year of pharmaceutical products into the country. $15 billion. We already do…

Five to six times more than the core inflation rate, and it is what drives seniors. I have done town halls, but also I still do office hours at grocery stores and pharmacies where I just meet constituents; and seniors always tell you, I…

I am glad you pointed that out. In each of those years pharmaceutical products ran higher in the sense of inflation by the average of 5 to 6 percent more than the core inflation rate.