one thing I want to run the statistics by is the people who remember, because I think it is often in this administration where the right hand misses what the left hand is doing. In the area of health care, there is a proposal for 13…

Well, Mr. Speaker, having worked in the White House, I want to be clear, I do not think anybody here is saying the President, and I am sure the President, the First Lady, and the entire administration feels for every one of these families…

This is the only war post combat, after the President has declared hostilities have ceased, that there have been more deaths in the aftermath of the war than during the war. Again, I think it comes back to the fact that Saddam Hussein is a…

But when the President said ``bring it on,'' it was close to putting, unfortunately I think given the guerilla warfare and the terrorists that have now come into Iraq, I think it has put a target on the American service people that existed…

people from around the world come to America for their medical care. Yet Americans travel around the world for affordable medications. Between 2000 and 2003, seniors' expenditures on prescription drugs increased 44 percent. The legislation…

People from around the world, Mr. Speaker, come to America for first-class medical care, but Americans need to travel around the world for affordable medications. Between 2000 and 2003, seniors' expenditures on prescription drugs increased…

In fact, I think it was mentioned, and I want to say one thing to our colleague from Washington, that not only did the President not read it, or it has been reported he did not read it, but I think it has also been reported, though I want…

Which would require that we invest the United States equal to the goals we are setting in Iraq, whether it is in the area of health care, education, in the area of road reconstruction. In America, our highway fund will be cut by over $6…

Well, one would think on the doorstep of war one would read that. But I want to stress one thing about what our colleague from Washington mentioned. He said the President was certain about his opinion about the imminent danger of Iraq and…

There is no doubt he read those that were presented, and especially on the doorstep of war.

as the conference for a Medicare prescription drug benefit gets under way, we are reminded how difficult this compromise will be and that the bills in both the House and the other Chamber will leave many seniors with many high prescription…

I am struck by the lack of compassion for the fact that Enron, for 4 out of 5 years with record profits, never paid a single corporate income tax, yet was the recipient of $250 million worth of export-import loans, or corporate welfare. I…

I thank my good colleague and friend, the gentleman from Minnesota, for his leadership on this issue, as he has shown time and again. The test of leadership is the ability of an individual, in the face of a great deal of opposition, to…

may I ask my colleague, what you have as an ad in your area paper, where people can buy the same medications that they could get at their local pharmacies, if they went to Canada, the reductions, if you could read a few of those…

if my colleague would yield, as a friend of ours once said, if they say it ain't about money, it is about money, and that is what this is about. It is not about abortion. It is not about safety. It is not about anything else but about…

I think that our other colleague from Michigan laid it out. What would happen is you would see a dramatic reduction in prices here in the United States. There would be some levelling off. Prices in other places would rise. We can call it…

the pharmaceutical companies set up a front group, because if it was paid for by the pharmaceutical companies, it would totally be discredited; but they set up a front group to advertise and start to attack or pressure individual Members…

what I want to try to do is try to demystify this process. It was not like the CIA got the speech and itself edited it out. This is a coordinated process. National security does it, its team. There is a domestic team. There is an economic…

That is right, a minimum of 4 years. That is $50 billion a year if my math works, and I still I think I am pretty good at it. That comes to $200 billion on the occupation side of Iraq. We spend $12 billion, $12 billion on just college…

I would like to note that on the occupation, not only are our troops there, 150,000 U.S. troops now, permanently stationed there, and as my colleague noted that there are other countries who will not, like India, participate without the…

I want to say one thing before I have to go, and our colleague from Massachusetts noted this. That is not a different question than the Republican Senator, Richard Lugar, had asked, the head of the Foreign Relations Committee. This again…

My colleague asks who is benefiting. I do not have the answer to that, but I do have the answer for who is paying. That is the United States taxpayer. Again, I want to remind our colleagues, for 60 years the American people have showed…

Remember, the same people that wrote that speech were participating in crafting this policy, and they have now set out a course of $1 billion a week of occupation, $50 billion a year of U.S. taxpayer money for the occupation and…

Well, Mr. Speaker, before I try to catch that last flight, when I was running for office and I was in Six Corners Jewel, which is our big grocery store with the Osco, on Irving and Organza, seniors would come out and show me what they were…

in yesterday's testimony, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld noted that our reconstruction costs, providing health care, education, transportation and housing needs in Iraq have cost the American taxpayers $2.3 billion, and projected…