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One of the things that was reported on briefly but should have been reported on in more detail was after 9/11 and the World Trade Center was taken down by the planes, and the Pentagon was attacked, and they were going to attack the Capitol…
they saw what happened in Somalia when Black Hawk Down happened, and the previous administration did exactly what they wanted them to do, and that was to pull out. Now, that was an encouragement, I believe, to the terrorists around the…
Let me just say that back in the mid-90s we knew from intelligence reports that there were terrorist training camps in and around Khartoum in the Sudan. We knew that. We knew Usama bin Laden was in Khartoum, and we knew of the terrorist…
if we did not do anything but free that country, that would be a great thing. But what we have done is we have sent a very strong signal to the terrorist network al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Baath Party in Iraq, and the terrorists around the…
I think it is the rhetoric. We are all in support of our troops, but those who have been over there, as we were just a couple of weeks ago, know that our troops know they are doing the right thing. They know that the Iraqi people are happy…
for about the past 4 years we have been talking about children with autism. We have gone from 1 in 10,000 children who are autistic to 1 in 150 to 200. It is an absolute epidemic. And we have had hearing after hearing where we brought in…
I admire our President and my leaders in the House, but I want to tell you why I oppose this bill. The average senior is going to pay $4,000 in order to receive the first $1,500 in benefits. Now, we should take care of the 24 percent of…
last night I took a special order, and I talked about what seniors are going to pay under the new Medicare prescription drug program if it is passed in its present form; and I understand it is coming out of committee just a little bit…
we are going to be voting before the end of the week on probably one of the most sweeping reforms in Medicare in the history of the program, and it is going to involve prescription drug coverage for seniors. There is a lot of…
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.
it was my pleasure to serve in the Congress of the United States for 6 years when Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States. When Ronald Reagan became President, the economy was heading in the wrong direction. Early in his…
for some time, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht), the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Emerson), myself and a number of others, Congressmen from the Democrat side, the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), our independent…
I come here tonight to set the record straight because last night the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Mr. Mark B. McClellan, made some statements in a speech before the National Press Club that I think need to be corrected. One…
If this amendment were put to a vote tonight, it would pass overwhelmingly; I am just confident of that. But the Committee on Rules chose not to make this amendment in order. Yet we are allowing the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence) and…
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…
the big issue that is being raised on the front page of USA Today, which I hope all of my colleagues will have a chance to read, is the very large price disparities between prescription drug costs here in the United States and what they…
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…
As we approach the flu season, many of my colleagues will visit the doctor's office here on Capital Hill and receive a flu shot. And before they go, I think all my colleagues ought to know that that flu shot contains mercury, which is a…
Mr. Speaker, I met Frank O'Bannon, our now-deceased Governor, I met his father back in the late 1960s when I served with his father in the Indiana State Senate. His father was editor and publisher of a newspaper in Corydon, Indiana; and he…
Mr. Speaker, S. 678, the Postmasters Equity Act, was introduced by the distinguished Senator from Hawaii, Senator Daniel Akaka, and it gives our Nation's most valued postmasters the same options available to postal supervisors when…
for the past 2 or 3 years, I have held hearings on the issue of autism in America. We used to have one out of 10,000 children that were autistic. That is where they will not focus on things, they will not talk, they yell, they stamp their…
The Saudi Arabian government has been and continues to be, in my opinion, complicitous in terrorist activities involving Americans abroad and here at home. The Saudi Royal Family, according to reports I have been made aware of, have been…
I have been here for 21 years in this body. I know I look a lot younger, but I have been here 21 years. And I have never seen the kind of pressure exerted on Members of this body like I have seen on this bill. They say it is about safety…
for 21 years I have been in the Congress, and for 21 years I have supported the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) and the people who were fighting for the lives of the unborn, the pro-life…
for some time now, a number of us have been coming to the floor of the House to talk about the high cost of prescription drugs here in the United States. We pay more for prescription drugs than any country on the face of the Earth, and…
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