Rep. Rahm Emanuel

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

No, they will not get that. There are 12 million children in this country who will not get the tax credit; yet we are going to spend $100 million in Iraq on a witness protection plan. There is a desire to build 3,500 units of affordable…

To my colleague, I do think that the House Committee on Rules will give me ``welcome to the NBA'' treatment. I do see my bill getting stuffed.

In 2\1/2\ years, we have added $2.5 trillion to the Nation's debt and 2.5 million Americans have lost their jobs. As Ronald Reagan used to say, facts are a stubborn thing, quoting former President John Adams. In the short order of 2\1/2\…

I think the deficit has now become the centerpiece of his economic policy. If we look at the administration's projection over the next 6 and 7 years, on the deficit going out to the year 2011, they actually borrow money every year…

One out of four children in America are covered by Medicaid for the maternal care. So the cuts in Medicaid affect directly the newborn children and the health care coverage, where we are talking about universal coverage in Iraq.

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…

In Bosnia, the United States troops share a burden with other Democratic nations under the command of a United States general. They are not serving under anybody else's command. There has not been any major deaths post combat. That is true…

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…

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…