Dan Burton

I fully support the underlying bill. It is needed legislation. It is a great piece of legislation. I commended the chairman and ranking member for this bill in response to the Dubai Ports issue. But, again, I don't think we can look at…

I hope that Speaker Pelosi will take the time to come down and explain to the full House the reason why she thinks she should have $15 million a year to fly back and forth to California. I think she could be very eloquent in explaining why…

Reclaiming my time, and I just want to say this. If there is a problem that has evolved out of this discussion tonight, it lays at the feet of Hugo Chavez. It lays at his feet. Because there was an agreement that was hammered out between…

Well, I didn't yield any more time to my colleague, he just started talking. But that is okay, I have a high regard for him. Let me just say once again that we have gone the extra mile on this agreement with Mr. Chavez. He wouldn't sign…

In answer to your question, I do not think anything is going to accelerate this until Mr. Chavez decides what he wants to do, and Mr. Chavez was given, if the gentleman will let me finish, Mr. Chavez and you, my good friend, asked for us…

Once again, I want to thank my colleague for being a cosponsor; and I want to thank the chairman for accepting.

I just want to say that we are drilling for oil in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. How did the gentleman vote when we wanted to drill in the ANWR, which is 3.5 times the size of Texas? We could have gotten almost 2 million…

I do not think so at this time. I think this resolution sends a very strong message, and I think we need to pass it.

I love you, man. You know that. But I have got to tell you, the Sandinistas and the leftists in Central and South America are against this for the reasons I stated. If you really believe in stability in our hemisphere, and you do not want…

Thimerosal was approved as well. You say there is language in here that does exempt vaccines?

Mr. Speaker, this is a very solemn occasion on which we meet here tonight: 150,000 people have perished in an unforeseen disaster that took place a little over a week ago. The world has joined hands to try to help these people who suffered…

I hear many of my colleagues on the Democrat side of the aisle talking about spending constraint. For 40 years you guys had control of this place and year after year after year after year the budget deficit went up and up and up and up…

Let me say one more thing, Mr. Speaker, and that is if we had had foresight that Winston Churchill had prior to World War II, we would have saved 50 million lives. President Bush has that foresight, and he is doing the right thing right…

According to most news reports that was not a factory for weapons of mass destruction, as was anticipated, it was an aspirin factory; and there was no reason for it. There were a lot of people, including the media, that thought it was a…

I just hope that the Iranian leaders realize that when they continue down this path, they ultimately not only endanger the entire Middle East and maybe areas beyond, and who knows maybe ultimately the United States, but they endanger their…

They had found 400,000 people in unmarked graves. They estimated between 1 and 1.3 million people that are unaccounted for. They were putting people in wood chippers, they were raping women. It was horrible what was going on, the torture…

The language in the bill is essentially the same as it is right now, and that is that the head of the health agency, HHS, all he has to do is say there is a safety issue, which he has already said, and there will be no reimportation.

So it boils down to why is the Food and Drug Administration trying to protect the huge profits that are being made here in the United States by the pharmaceutical companies, when at the same time in other parts of the world it is not that…

The thing that is interesting is there are containers that are tamper-proof, and you just showed one of them there. But these 940-some production sites around the world that are FDA approved, they send these pills around the world in bulk…

I mentioned Glaxo that made the $9 billion, and I think they made money on other drugs that we will be discussing later, but the company in question was SmithKline Beecham that made $9 billion and returned only $35 million back in…

If he earned $200 million, maybe he deserved it for ripping off the American people to the tune of $9 billion for their very small investment.

Let me say I want to look at the gentlewoman's approach to making the way we deal with veterans' pharmaceuticals maybe the way that we deal with things under this health bill.

In fact, we found zero on the importation from Canada, we found zero problems with the reimportation, and yet they say it is the safety they are concerned about. It does not make any sense.

I want to join the gentleman and some of our other colleagues, a growing number of our colleagues, in demanding that the GAO do an entire study of this to find out why the American people are being ripped off by the pharmaceutical…

I want to tell them there are a lot of people here, besides those tonight, who are committed to making sure that we get these prices of pharmaceutical products down to a level that is acceptable for the American people, as they are in…