Bill Delahunt

What you are speaking to is competence. It is just sheer incompetence. What the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) and I were discussing earlier in our conversation, it is credibility, credibility, and again, when we think of how we…

But when one examines the reporting by the CIA, by the Defense Intelligence Agency, by the appropriate agencies within the Department of State and the Department of Defense, their reporting was characterized by conditionality, by caveats…

I think it reveals the flaws in not only the foreign policy but particularly in terms of the economic strategy of this particular White House. There is another observation I would like to make because the reality is that the median income…

The question is will America of tomorrow be better, given the policies enunciated and the policies we have witnessed over the course of the past 3 rac{1}{2} years? That is the question facing the American people as we look towards November…

In terms of the health care, I am convinced that it is some sort of socialized medicine initiative that is surprising, since this administration decries efforts to adopt a universal health care coverage Federal policy here in the United…

I will tell the gentleman presumably there is a stealth OMD somewhere. Maybe it is in the Department of Defense. My colleague knows how they have that office of strategic planning.

But the Government of Iraq is being well financed. Mr. Speaker, if I can continue for a moment, because the picture that the gentleman is drawing is rather clear to me. I noted in a report from my hometown paper, the Boston Globe, that the…

Can my colleague repeat those? How many enemy combatants? Presumably those are former Iraqi soldiers.

While here in this country, and I am sure this has impacted just about every Member's district throughout the entire United States, while in this country, community hospitals that tend to be the hospital of the first response for that…

We could recommend that somehow they contact the Department of State or the Department of Commerce and maybe there are jobs in Baghdad or Kirkuk or Basra. There are certainly none in Ohio.

Maybe, just maybe we can find the secret so that we can avoid a jobless recovery for Iraq and learn those lessons so that we can replicate them here in the United States.

Is paying for the budget for the United States of America, with all our responsibilities, all of the issues that we are concerned about here domestically and internationally, and then the American taxpayer is also paying the budget for…

Two values and two budgets, a budget for the United States of America and a budget for Iraq. But the truth is, the reality is that it is the American taxpayer.

I bet that that $50 billion will come to the floor of this House in November or December, sometime after the election because, clearly, that $50 billion is going to exacerbate the deficit. It is a debt. But maybe I am wrong. Maybe the…

The gentleman mentioned the figure $50 billion. I do not think there is any Member in this House on either side of the aisle that would deny that $50 billion. But it is not part of this budget. When will that $50 billion be revealed to the…

That is gone. I dare say there have been about other speakers on the floor here this evening that have talked about the failure in this budget to be forthright and honest, and we all know, and the American people should know that the money…

The $87 billion. Does the gentleman remember that many of us on this side actually voted against authorizing the President to launch this intervention because we did not believe the evidence for a variety of different reasons that he…

If I can continue to interrupt the gentleman, I made a point of examining the record in terms of other international donors. There was a conference in the capital of Spain, in Madrid, where other international donors came together. Among…

I just want to applaud the gentleman for his leadership over the years in terms of issues surrounding Haiti. Let me just conclude by asking a question. I know the gentleman does not have time to respond. Presumably elections are going to…

I think what he is saying is what we need is something that does not exist here in Washington at this moment in our history. And that is openness and transparency and accountability, and it is not happening. To think that, and I do not…

Since 1986 Shea & Gardner has represented Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress in Washington for about $10,000 a month. One of the partners at Shea & Gardner is James Woolsey, the former CIA director. Chalabi also gets help from Francis…

I share your disappointment. I really do. I find it so incredulous that I will presume that there is some responsible answer why that disclosure was never made. Maybe this is a question of inaccurate reporting, but this is what appeared…

I would hope, and yet it would appear to be a remote possibility, given all that we know, that Mr. Woolsey was unaware of the representation possibly by another partner.

What I learned this evening, and I find it particularly disturbing, is that Mr. Chalabi was present in this chamber during the State of the Union that was delivered by President Bush back in January and sat with other members of the Iraqi…

I should interrupt the gentleman to say that Secretary Powell made that statement again. And not having had the opportunity because he left early, I was stunned by that particular remark. I do not know any Member in this body that had…