Timothy Roemer

MPP is a thoughtful policy that protects migrants looking to the United States of America for a better life and those living in the USA.

I am confident that as our partnerships continue to grow in the form of information sharing, manpower, and monetary support, more lives will be saved.

I want to emphasize that we can quantify results in a number of ways, but there is one metric we can't account for, and that is the number of lives that have been saved.

No, it is not. In fact, Anderson, al Qaeda attacked us in 1993, waited patiently seven years, wanted to be more spectacular, wanted to kill more people.

Air-conditioned garbage trucks, Anderson, and, also, body armor for dogs. How is this helping us fight the war on jihadist terrorism more effectively?

If my children were to receive this report card, they would have to repeat a grade. We can't afford to repeat the lessons of 9/11 and the losses of 9/11.

We need to make sure that the national intelligence director is a director with strength and authority and presidential access, not a czar.

We need one person in charge, one person with accountability, one person with responsibility and the president's ear to be able to manage, hire dire, have an appropriation budget, and direct the activities of the 15 different agencies that…

It is a crescendo type activity that is causing the CIA director to have, so to speak, his hair on fire. Why aren't we seeing a commensurate reaction out of FBI and Justice to try to meet this threat?

I thank my good friend and teammate on the Cuba Working Group. We have heard mention many times today committees and communism and changing foreign policy. Months ago 23 Democrats and 23 Republicans came together, formulating ideas…

I would just engage the majority leader a little bit further on this particular bill in saying that the committee reported this unanimously out of the committee a month and a half ago in a bipartisan fashion after we worked very hard on…

Does the majority leader think this is a priority for the House, since it is a priority of the President of the United States, to report this bipartisan bill to the entire House?

The bill that I referred to, as the gentlewoman from Ohio knows, was a Clinton proposal that came to the House for three different votes. It passed with bipartisan support from Democrats and Republicans working together, not excluding and…

I would compliment the gentleman back, and say our work on the libraries and museums bill went in a bipartisan fashion, another very significant piece of legislation to help urban and rural libraries and museums. This bill I hope will pass…

The poet Shelley once wrote that it is very important that children believe in belief; that children believe in Santa Claus; that children believe that pumpkins can turn into carriages; and that children believe that little elves can…

As a conferee on the Elementary Secondary Education Act, I was participating in a public forum advocating full funding for children with disabilities. Had I been present, I would have voted 'nay.'

I am hopeful that our distinguished chairman, who has done a very good job on our ESEA conference, will be open and amenable to including the forgiveness, not only to those who have died, but the remaining spouses, due to their hero status…

I think the people of New Albany are particularly proud today. I think the people of Indiana are particularly proud today. I know the people in the United States are particularly proud today of honoring our home State leader, Lee Hamilton…

Every time we have engaged these other countries in trying to help us, like the Russians, we end up paying for everything they were supposed to pay for. It is yet another cost overrun for us.

I simply say they have $42 billion, $42 billion, to decide what to do to build a safe and scientifically worthwhile space station.

The amendment states they shall not exceed an authorized bill for a cap; they cannot go over what we have already approved and passed as a Congress and been signed into law for a cap. And then it says do not jeopardize the lives of the…

The first part of the amendment, as the gentleman knows, simply states what the United States Senate has passed as a cap for what can be spent according to the authorization levels for both launch and construction costs.

Amendment No. 8 offered by Mr. Roemer: Page 70, after line 7, insert the following: Sec. 305. (a) The Federal building located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, and known as the Department of Justice Building…

I hope this bill is a stepping stone for successes of a future Congress, that we can work together in a bipartisan way to help moderate- and low-income people get access to housing and help their children and help their families and help…