this week 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 expect a different result. This budget repeats the same mistakes…

Every tablet is manufactured in a facility not in the United States. It used to be here, but it is manufactured in Ireland. Then it is exported, same packaging, to the pharmacy shops in France, Germany, England, Ireland, United States…

Before I leave, I wanted to add one other point. I think the gentleman explained this, and I had not even known this, but on Tuesday night, the pharmacies across America get the new prices coming in over their fax machines. Going to that…

in the 2000 election, President Bush declared that he was against nation-building. When we look at the Republican budget, who knew it was America he was talking about. They have three wars financed with three tax cuts, resulting in a $550…

having worked on the 1993 budget that cut taxes for working families and reduced the deficit by $500 billion and having worked on the 1997 budget that balanced the budget and cut taxes for middle-class families so you could both reduce the…

not only did we cut the taxes in 1993 and 1997 in our budget this time, it resulted in 22 million jobs, a reduction in poverty, a reduction in those who were without health insurance. And today under your economic stewardship, 2.5 million…

The 1993 budget reduced the deficit and cut taxes. And it cut taxes on working families who needed it most and put our priorities and our fiscal house in order. The 1997 balanced budget built on the shoulders of the 1993 budget, balanced…

telling the truth and facing the consequences in the Bush White House has become truth and consequences. General Shinseki, retired Army Chief of Staff, said occupying Iraq would require several hundred thousand troops, and was forced to…

in the 2000 campaign, President Bush declared that he opposed nation-building. Who knew it was America he was talking about? When we look at this higher education agenda, the President can run for reelection saying he kept his promise…

Richard Clark is a career civil servant and registered Republican who served in four administrations: President Reagan, President Bush, President Clinton and now our present President Bush. Most recently, he served for this President as a…

In the 2000 Presidential election, President Bush declared that he was against nation building. Who knew it was America he was talking about? President Kennedy used to say, to govern is to choose, and how we make our choices in this budget…

the consequences for insubordination are extremely severe. That was the warning that the Medicare actuary Richard Foster received from his superiors for trying to tell the truth about the real costs of the Medicare bill. The penalties for…

Last year Congress created a zone of privacy that blacks out the transfer of personal medical information. There should be a sign above one's medical information that reads, ``Do not enter.'' It has been a bipartisan effort. On Monday, a…

this is a tale of two budgets. Let me point to one thing: $353 for an American Iraqi enterprise fund and job training. $353 million. Yet, the President's budget cut $316 million in the vocational education program. That represents a 24…

$793 million for health care facility construction and medical equipment replacement throughout Iraq. Yet there has been a $94 million cut to community access programs here in the United States, a 90 percent cut in that budget. Mr…

In Iraq, we have renovated a little over 2300 schools in all of Iraq. 1.5 million secondary school student kits have been sent out. 800,000 primary school kits have been sent out. In America, the President's Leave No Child Behind has been…

that is a fair question. I think that the budget that we are submitting, and one of the things I want to talk about and start off with is that it is not just a budget, and it is not just a set of values, and it is not just a set of…

My last count says in Iraq there have been 52 hospitals and health care clinics that have opened up since the end of the war.

The President's budget also freezes job training. We have a cut, as I said, of $151 million in dislocated worker problems, dislocated from economic trade and globalization. Yet, at that time, with one week to go in the President's budget…

the purpose of this evening, because this administration has two books, two sets of values, two priorities, and two budgets, one for Iraq and one for the United States. And the American people, with 43 million Americans without health…

As the gentleman probably remembers, last year when we voted on our budget for the United States, they projected a deficit at that point of a little north of $300 billion. Then they brought up the investment of $87 billion in Iraq after…

If I may, we have voted in this Congress on $160 billion of investment in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rebuilding of those countries, healthcare, housing, jobs, roads, bridges. As the gentleman wanted to remind me of a point in…

Why would you freeze then the maternal and child health care block grant, which basically does the immunization programs here in the United States? What would make you freeze it here in the United States, but somehow think that 4.3 million…

I thought it would be an opportune time to discuss and go over the review of this budget and the economic policies that have resulted from the President's past budgets here at home, with also the type of priorities that have been claimed…

So my colleagues understand, as we have opened 52 hospitals and clinics in Iraq, just a month earlier than the President's budget, he froze the National Institutes of Health's budget; rural health care was cut by $638 million, and $785…