question number one to the minority whip, I would say to you that, of course, there are three branches of government. I don't think anybody in room or in the Chamber needs that explanation. It is the Vice President's lawyer that needs that…

I would like to say that it's true, there is an important constitutional precedent here, and that's why the Vice President should never have claimed that he wasn't part of the executive branch, something any eighth grader knows.

I want to make two closing points really quickly to my colleague from Ohio, if I can: one is I don't come to this amendment lightly. The Vice President's unprecedented act of declaring that he was not in the executive branch is the reason…

for years the Republican Congress sat idly by while we spent billions of dollars in Iraq and lost thousands of lives, no questions asked. Now Republicans are starting to get nervous with the lack of results. On Monday, Senator Lugar said…

this week President Bush nominated former Congressman Jim Nussle to run the Office of Management and Budget. Just before Mr. Nussle and President Bush took charge of America's books, we had a $236 billion surplus, the largest in U.S…

At this very time this would lead, if I am not mistaken, this actual amendment would lead to about a $150 million cut to assistance in Israel. At no time is there a more precarious moment in Israel's history since the founding of the State…

some things are more important than politics. Lifesaving research that has the potential to cure diseases and end suffering for millions of Americans ought to be one of them. But for President Bush, certain things aren't above politics…

once again, the world has seen another outbreak of Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 people were killed and 70 were wounded the other day in Gaza City, bringing the total to at least 63 people having been killed. Fatah…

I do appreciate your conversion on the road to Damascus as it relates to fiscal responsibility and spending. And I do believe that after we've seen the highest increase in the Nation's debt in the shortest period of time under a Republican…

At this time last year, the Jack Abramoff scandal was on the front pages of the newspaper. Today, a new guilty plea in the scandal proves it is not over. It is like deja vu all over again. The president of a major environmental group with…

The truth is, you don't base your research on one report in a medical journal. You provide leadership. If you go back to the 1950s, we had a polio epidemic in this country that was killing thousands of people, leaving people terminally…

Mr. Speaker, my father is from Israel, and every summer I spent a good portion of my childhood in Israel, 2 days after the 1967 war, every summer for 5 years, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1973, every summer going to Israel. I remember…

I don't think I will use that time. Madam Chairman, as Ronald Reagan once said, facts are a stubborn thing. Let's take the section on required recusal for Members and staff in negotiation for jobs. This bill has a closure on that, and it…

When the new Congress came in session, this Congress, the 110th, we banned gifts by lobbyists. We banned meals paid for by lobbyists. We changed the rules of the reports on earmarks where Members were doing things that benefited themselves…

I do appreciate it. As you heard what I said from my friend from California, I said you came to change Washington and to pass lobbying reform. Over 12 years you came to change Washington; Washington changed the Republican Congress. Now, to…

in 1994, when we passed the Community Policing Program that added 100,000 community police onto America's streets and also followed through with the strategy of not only getting cops on the beat, but getting gangs, guns and drugs off the…

like my colleagues, I too, rise in support of the full funding for the 100,000 community police officers. It has been a linchpin to a very successful anti-crime strategy. In the 1990s, we pursued a single strategy of putting more cops on…

Johnnie Burton and Terri Shaw, two of President Bush's administration's foxes that have been guarding the henhouse, are stepping down. And now they are gone and the American people are better off. At the Interior Department, Johnnie Burton…

when it comes to hate and discrimination, America speaks with one voice, ``no.'' Zero tolerance. You cannot be a beacon of freedom around the world and fail that test here at home. President Kennedy was moved on the civil rights movement…

the list of Republicans under investigation or resigning in this administration in disgrace keeps growing. This morning, The Washington Post reported Julie A. MacDonald, the deputy assistant Secretary of the Interior Department, resigned…

I cannot think of anything better for city that hosts, any time you go to one of its public schools we have across the city 50 some odd languages being spoken, Chinese being spoken in the school, Arabic being taught in the school…

according to our military leaders, the status quo is not working in Iraq. Major General Batiste said, ``The administration got it terribly wrong and I applaud Congress for stepping up.'' Lieutenant General Odom said our bill ``gives the…

Today we will once again hear from the Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, on the prosecutor purge. When it comes to the U.S. Attorney firings in public corruption cases, we have heard plenty of different explanations from the Attorney…

During the President's weekly radio address, he accused the Democrats of spending 68 days pushing legislation that would undercut our troops. During his tour of the Middle East yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, ``The debate…

Roosevelt once said, ``We have nothing to fear but fear itself,'' and you have taken that and turned it on its head and said, ``all we have to offer is fear.'' This is a new direction versus a status quo budget. There are clear choices…