The administration came out and said it would be wrong to do it as loans. We needed, because of the international community, to make it a U.S. taxpayer-funded $87 billion investment.

I want to turn to transportation. In Iraq, the President has budgeted $835 million for three new Iraqi airports, $240 million for road and bridge repairs. Last year, the President's budget cut 10 percent of the Corps of Engineers. This…

Let me add one other thing. Ensuring a nation of healthy children. This is the last point on our health care chart; 4.3 million Iraqi children have been immunized, yet the maternal and child health care block grant has been frozen…

if we are going to spend $3 trillion, I would think we would get more than 21,000 jobs out of it. And of the 21,000 jobs that were created last month, not the 200,000, unknown, but it is right there in the statistics, of the 21,000 jobs…

I want to again remind us of one of the headlines here. Training of health care professionals, 2,200 Iraqi doctors and nurses will get free training, $278 million cut in the United States' budget in this area. We will go on to the next…

I know this sounds horribly rude and sarcastic, but could David Kay be appointed to coordinate these two budgets together? I mean, he is available after all. If one looks at this, $44 million in community development projects including…

It is very good, a very good record. I am impressed. I am very, very impressed. They have done a great job. There has been in Iraq free training provided to 22 Iraqi health professionals and 8,000 volunteers. Yet a $278 million cut, 68…

what is known around here as business as usual would make a Chicago alderman blush. In Chicago we have a pretty high standard. If we look at today's Washington Post and New York Times editorial page, they talk about the relationship…

President Bush has decided to make credibility an election year issue. Yesterday the Vice President announced if the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last 2 or 3 years, we would not have had the kind of job growth that this…

President Bush has announced that his campaign strategy will be to make credibility an issue. Just last night, the Vice President said that if the Democrats had been in charge for the last 2 or 3 years we would have endangered the job…

in addressing the Republican Governors Association fund-raiser last night, the President, in a much-touted speech, decided to unveil his reelection strategy. He pointedly accused the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination of…

We created a zone of privacy relating to medical information. And I don't think the first person that violates it should be the federal government.

last week we learned the administration's budget projects a $521 billion deficit. What we also have learned, based on that budget, is that not only are they running a budget deficit, or a fiscal deficit; they are also running a credibility…

last week we learned that after extensive debate we were told that the Medicare bill would cost $400 billion to the taxpayers. We learned that the real number, and known all along, was $540 billion. Not a single benefit has been accrued to…

in today's number reporting a deficit $500 billion, a historic number, it goes to prove that we cannot fight three wars with three tax cuts, having now produced a record deficit in the economy. And what we need now is a balanced budget…

last year, Americans on average saw their health care costs increase by 9.3 percent. That is on top of the year before where health care inflation ran at 12 percent. Today, we have 44 million Americans without health insurance and 32…

last year's 9\1/2\ percent increase in health care spending and costs was the largest in 11 years. Our health care spending per capita doubles that of European nations; yet 43 million Americans have no health care coverage and millions…

today, as the President signs the Medicare Reform Act dealing with prescription drugs, although this is going to be hailed around in Washington as a great day, we missed an opportunity to save our seniors dramatically on the cost of…

the 3-hour wheel of fortune that we witnessed the other day is reflective of the 3-week wheel of fortune, where the public interest and the public trust had been turned into a piggy bank for the special interests. There are 635…

As we address the issue of prescription drugs and as speaker after speaker is speaking about prescription drugs, there are three attempts to deal with out-of-control prices of prescription drugs that are going up on average 20 percent a…

this week we will be taking up the prescription drug bill, and what I find interesting, a number of us on both sides of the aisle have worked on the issue of bringing the cost of medications down to a level that our grandparents and…

as a cosponsor of the Syrian Accountability Act, I am proud to rise in strong support of this legislation. It is a remedy for the absence of a consistent, clear, and strong policy towards Syria today. And while we pass this bill today, we…

Section 202 of the manager's amendment requires the commission to issue rules that will protect mutual fund investors against conflicts of the interest created by the situation where the same individual serves as a portfolio manager of…

I support H.R. 2420 for the simple reason that I think it is essential to replace and retain, but also reconstruct the Good Housekeeping seal that the mutual fund industry has had for so long. They have lost it in the last 6 months. This…

President Kennedy once said, To govern is to choose. And we are now about to spend $23 billion on tax credits for the energy industry. With $1.8 billion we are spending on clean coal, we could raise the maximum Pell grant benefit to…