President Bush is continuing to oppose a bipartisan plan to give 10 million children the health care they need. This morning, the Associated Press reported that President Bush will veto any plan that raises the resources necessary to fund…

I helped negotiate the original SCHIP when I worked for President Clinton. It was President Clinton who proposed the SCHIP bill, not the Republicans; in fact, they opposed it. Then they agreed, after the Balanced Budget Agreement, that we…

Dolores Sweeney, from my district, works for an insurance company that doesn't provide health care for her or her children. She earns a paycheck, not a welfare check. She has three children and would like to buy private health care, but…

this morning, The Washington Post reports that States across this country are forced to start preparing to cut hundreds of thousands of children off of children's health care because Republicans in this House and President Bush have put…

when the House tried to reauthorize the children's health care bill, the President of the United States called SCHIP ``a welfare benefit'' for ``middle-class households.'' Maybe there is some confusion at the other end of Pennsylvania…

In 7 years, the President has been awfully reluctant to use his veto pen. But when it comes to important health care legislation, this President hasn't hesitated to say ``no'' to the American people. Stem cell research, which could cure…

the President has asked for another 190 billion more dollars for the war in Iraq. That's 190 billion more dollars for more of the same. For 41 days for the cost of the war, 10 million American children would get their health care. For 1…

Yesterday Defense Secretary Gates requested 43 billion more dollars for the war in Iraq, 43 billion more dollars to support the President's plan for more of the same. We have spent $400 billion in 4 years on the war in Iraq. For 41 days of…

Last week the President asked for $200 billion more for the war in Iraq. In the same week, the White House said that the bipartisan plan to give 10 million children health care included ``excessive spending'' and threatened to veto it. I…

in Alan Greenspan's recently released memoir, President Bush and the Republicans in Congress come in for some sharp criticism. Reuters said of the book, ``Mr. Greenspan sharply criticizes President Bush's administration and Republican…

the former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan, has recently released his memoir for the years of his time in public service. And it comes as a surprise to many that President Bush and the Republicans in Congress do not fair particularly well…

Right before our break, we passed and sent to the President comprehensive innovation legislation that allowed America to maintain its lead in the area of technology and investment in the R&D of this country. With this legislation, the…

the previous days have offered a series of reports on conditions in Iraq. These reports have been consistent: Iraq remains dangerous, unstable, and political progress is virtually nonexistent. It wasn't supposed to be this way. The…

in 2002 when I ran for Congress, I met Dolores Sweeney. She works full time in an insurance company, but for years she and her three children did not have health insurance until SCHIP. Her children are enrolled in the health care program…

Republicans were opposed to this bill before they were for this bill, and what has happened is that pediatric care and the eye and dental care that is in this bill was a principle that President Clinton had and there would be no agreement…

in 2002, when I was campaigning for Congress, I met Dolores Sweeney, who had three children. She worked full time at an insurance company, was too rich for Medicaid and too poor to get her own private insurance because her company didn't…

last year, we promised to break the link between lobbyists and legislators here in Washington and to fundamentally change the culture of corruption that has become accepted practice here. This new law is on the doorstep of becoming law…

This amendment would cut down on that type of fraud and bring real accountability to the system. A billion dollars to dead farmers still getting government benefits. I think a Chicago alderman would be jealous of this type of benefit. So…

there's a sad irony on this decision by British Petroleum, and that is, 10 years ago, 1997, when I was working in the White House, we had made a decision and Geolyse standards were negotiated at that point, coming on line just about now…

Republicans and Democrats throughout the Nation agree no child in our Nation should go without health care. In States across the country, Democratic and Republican Governors have supported strengthening the Children's Health Insurance…

Here it states, ``37 million Americans get their daily drinking water.'' It's the largest body of fresh water in North America. In fact, it's 90 percent of the water as it relates to body water. In that effort, this is a bipartisan effort…

The freshwater that surrounds Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio is a great national treasure. It provides, as I said, 37 million Americans with their daily drinking water.

this morning the President noted with a report that we were at the starting line; 3,600 American lives, $485 billion spent, $10 billion a month, 5 years into the war. If that is the starting line, then I ask you, what is the cost to get to…

Today parents have a choice of a second job, a second mortgage, or dipping into their savings to help pay for their kids' college education, and that is the wrong choice to ask parents to make. In Illinois, tuition last year went up…

this Saturday the President will issue an interim report on the Iraqi government's success or failure meeting the benchmarks. But prior to taking a look at that report, we have another set of benchmarks to look at; that is, the benchmarks…