I was moved by my colleague's story who remembers his father here when he got sworn in. Just 5 months ago, my father sat up there and watched me get sworn in, and he came to this country in 1959. So whatever happens in his life and my…

I applaud the efforts that are reflected here and the attempt here. But that bipartisanship, also those common set of values that we come together on, is in sharp contrast to what was done on the child tax credit. Mr. Speaker, the other…

If you take this market on either cancer or AIDS drugs, just those segments or families of drugs, there is not a single cancer drug today or AIDS drug on the market that was not directly developed with assistance from the United States…

The fact is, your chart up there shows exactly the similarity that is happening now to the American taxpayer and consumers, where you could buy these same drugs overseas in different markets for far cheaper than we are buying them here…

I think it illustrates again what our good friend from Minnesota said and has brought forth examples is that, in fact, there is not a drug today, and we can also expand this to medical choice, but no drug today that is not being developed…

I am glad to see that both Republicans and Democrats after all this time are working together to try to correct this critical deficiency in the Medicare program. When Medicare started in the early 60s, about 10 percent of the health care…

yesterday's New York Times story ran a headline: ``Iraqis Are Out of Jobs, But Pay Day Still Comes.'' With the administration's blessing, 200,000 Iraqis are receiving $20 a day for no-show jobs. They do not work. They do not show up for…

today the headline in The New York Times reads: ``Iraqis are out of jobs, but payday still comes.'' With the administration's and the President's blessings, 200,000 Iraqis, employees of the government ministries and government-owned…

Tomorrow morning the new unemployment numbers come out, and we are probably close to nearly 3 million people that will have lost their jobs in the last 2 years. We have added $3 trillion to the Nation's debt. That has been the end result…

when we were here in the House the other day to vote on the third tax cut of the President, the majority leader stated that we were going to be back and they were going to be back with another tax cut. Well, we have a tax cut. It is on…

like my colleague from Illinois, I, too, have families that I represent. The gentleman spoke about a family who got a tax credit. I would like to talk about Renita Jackson-Keys, who works as a cook for the Chicago public schools. She…

in Illinois we have unemployment now of 6.7 percent; 17,000 workers have lost their job in the last 6 months; 2.5 million Americans have lost their jobs in the last 2 years; and 2 million of those jobs are manufacturing jobs. One gentleman…

I rise to oppose this rule. The underlying bill does very little for those working Americans whose benefits have run out. In my home town of Chicago unemployment is up to 6.7 percent. My State of Illinois has lost 17,400 jobs in the last…

under the new tax cut agreement, some investors could cut their tax liability to zero. I want to read a few excerpts today from the Wall Street Journal: ``After Congress gets through with President Bush's tax cut proposal, some rich…

since everybody liked to quote President Kennedy, I would like to quote President Reagan: ``Facts are a stubborn thing.'' After the 2001 tax cut, 2.5 million Americans have lost their jobs, 5 million Americans have lost their healthcare…

I am grateful to 67 of my colleagues who have cosponsored my bill, the American Parity Act. They join me in supporting a funding boost for health care, education, and public safety by the same amount we have pledged to rebuild Iraq. We are…

The American people find themselves in the middle of a job recession. This tax bill does nothing to kick-start the economy. In Illinois, in Chicago, we have lost 56,000 jobs, one of the greatest losses. Fifteen months ago, we passed one of…

we recognize older Americans each May. This May we must address the unpleasant fact that too many of our elders are beaten, neglected, and extorted. Like other family crimes such as child abuse and domestic abuse, elder abuse has existed…

Ronald Reagan once said: Facts are stubborn things. Since the economic management in the last 2 years, 22 million Americans have lost their jobs; 5 million Americans are without health care who had health care before; $1 trillion worth of…

I rise today to echo what other speakers on both sides of the aisle have talked about, talking about jobs, creating new jobs, saving jobs now in jeopardy as our economy continues to deteriorate. I am privileged to represent one of the most…

the United States is at war. We have one Armed Forces, one Commander in Chief, one Nation. There are questions to be asked about how we came to this moment, about the diplomacy, about the relationships with our allies, about the shifting…

this budget resolution is a failed economic plan. Fourteen months ago, this body passed a tax cut worth $1 trillion, a little over $1 trillion; and the net result has been 2.5 million Americans without work, 4 million Americans without…

Mr. Speaker, one of the first acts I did as a Congressman was to expedite the citizenship of a young man, Mano Catchatoorian, who is in the 416th Engineer Command, so he could ship out with his unit to Kuwait on February 24. I cannot think…

in the coming weeks I intend to introduce a bill to create the simplified family credit, real tax relief for working families with children. My proposal would help grow the economy, simplify the IRS code by merging an array of tax…

What we have decided is we just do not have the same sense of urgency. And let me add one other point that I lost in here is that today there was a story, I think in the Wall Street Journal again, that States have borrowed more money this…