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I want to speak about another national wildlife reserve. It is not in the cold north of ANWR. It is not in the frozen tundra along an Arctic coast, which is already producing just a short distance away, in Prudhoe Bay, an amazing amount of…
Nutria is a rodent native to South America. They weigh approximately 18 pounds and resemble a beaver. In the 1930's, they were introduced into Louisiana. Studies indicate that female nutria are capable of producing up to 15 young per year…
Let me address the two principal objections to this bill. The first is that some of the first responders would like more coverage. They would like more coverage than we currently provide for police officers and firefighters who take the…
I yield myself 2 minutes to briefly set the record straight. There has been extraordinary negotiations with the minority on this bill, over 2 weeks of it. The administration brought this bill to us as an emergency. It called upon us…
the Dingell motion offers us a different solution than H.R. 5. Interestingly enough, not a single one of the 175 health care organizations and associations, doctors across America, endorses that solution. But they have all endorsed H.R. 5…
Subparagraph 11(c)(1) says: ``Any State law, whether effective before, on, or after the dates of the enactment of this Act that specifies a particular monetary amount of compensatory or punitive damages, or the total amount of damages…
I rise first to commend a Member of the House who has done some extraordinary work, not even on our committee but on the Committee on Ways and Means, and that is the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson), who has really contributed…
Madam Speaker, whatever happened to the quiet evening at home? Most people have experienced it, that annoying ring on the phone just as dinner goes to the table. When one answers, it is not a call from a friend or family member or even…
I rise in support of H.R. 5005 which represents the President's ambitious and historic proposal to create the new Department of Homeland Security. I believe the President's proposal represented a great framework for congressional…
I do want to seriously thank the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young) for the extraordinary degree of cooperation between his committee and his staff and the staff of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, as well as the staffs of the…
I wanted to cite another example of how the gentleman's committee has worked on a problem in America that was awful, the Firestone tire failure problem just last year. When the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee…
I wanted to rise, too, to let the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) know that, from this side of the aisle, the feelings that have been already expressed about her personally are shared broadly across this body. I say to the gentlewoman…
Mr. Speaker, this debate tonight should not be about politics. American seniors have heard all the politics they can stomach. And the AARP said it best in their letter. They said, ``Our members, virtually all older Americans, need this…
I am pleased to let my dear friend, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek), know that the poor seniors in her State, over 1 million of them, will get free insurance drug coverage under this bill. That is 42 percent of her seniors and the…
there is trickery about this place. There is fraud about this House. We could have a motion to recommit forthwith, but that is not what happened tonight. What happened tonight was a motion to recommit promptly. My friend, the chairman of…
How dare any of the Members suggest they love their mothers and fathers more than we love our mothers and fathers. How dare they suggest that we dislike our grandparents and would feed them bitter pills, and get them. How dare they make…
So the question before the House soon will be will we rubber-stamp existing trade policy? Is it so good, is it working so well for the American people that we should say, hey, let us just keep doing more of the same, let us give President…
The major components of what we are suggesting is that it is time to quit talking and to put in place a real and sustainable entitlement program within Medicare that will provide access to drugs at more affordable cost to the seniors of…
That Federal funding for diabetes research should be increased annually as recommended by the Diabetes Research Working Group so that a cure for juvenile diabetes can be found.
As the gentleman knows, at this time, more than 1 million Americans have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly. It makes them insulin-dependent for life, and it carries a constant threat of…
9-11 taught us a lesson, in effect. It taught us that we have to be willing to think like evil people. And that is not our custom. We think like good people in America. We do not think like evil people, designing ways and means to kill and…
when the Joint Statement of Managers was filed last night, it inadvertently omitted some important language concerning a Performance Goals Letter for the authorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Chairman Tauzin and…
I simply want to rise in opposition to this alternative offered by the Democrats for one of the many reasons that I hope we oppose it, but for an important one. The Democrats will argue that they want to put flexibility into the title V…
Mr. Speaker, today the Chair will consider one of the most important public health and safety issues facing the Nation, the development of a centralized and permanent geologic disposal site for our country's nuclear waste, wastes that are…
I respect my friends, the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Gibbons) and the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley), and I appreciate the fight they are making on the floor today. I understand their concerns for their home State and for this…
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