Bill Delahunt

We are talking billions on the American taxpayers. Let us be honest. We are in this alone. We are doing it alone. Nobody is helping us.

They are willing to take the money. But let us go back to the Gulf War that was managed by this President's father. There were 160,000 nonAmerican troops that were involved in that effort. That was a true coalition of the willing in the…

No, that is not connected and pigs fly. The point is, when you talk about a coalition of the willing, I cannot think of such a misnomer as the coalition of the willing.

I think the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) made an observation relevant to the Turkish Parliament supporting sending troops now to Iraq. But the other half of that story is that the United States Government just issued a loan…

That is on top of the $300 billion that is already been spent. We are looking at a billion dollars for, as the gentleman says, a search for ghosts. But we did find in a refrigerator of an Iraqi scientist purportedly one vial of botulin…

If Mr. Emanuel could tell us how many tax dollars from the United States are going to Iraq to construct or rehabilitate schools in Iraq. What is the dollar figure?

I intend to offer another amendment too along with the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland) which would provide $1.8 billion for our veterans, for American veterans who are currently fighting in Iraq so that when they come home, they will…

I have hospitals in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that, because of the cuts to Medicaid, are on the verge of closing and our people are suffering.

The estimates that we as Members of Congress were provided by the administration. If my colleagues remember, the head of the office of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is an arm of the White House, informed us that the cost…

There was a report today, or rather Monday, in The Washington Post that the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld, when he was concluding his 4-day trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, complained that critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy…

And does that include the $2 billion necessary for veterans health care benefits.

Not this time. We want a plan, and we want all of the answers. I can remember Secretary Feith coming in front of the Committee on International Relations. I asked him, give me just an idea of the costs to rebuild Iraq. He said, I do not…

I do not think, based on the information we are hearing ahead of time, that anybody thought Iraq was going to be anywhere near as tough an egg to crack as it has become. We did not have a rotation policy at that time. We were just going to…

Those that will be employed by Halliburton in Iraq will be Iraqis. They will not be Americans. The low-wage jobs and the medium-wage jobs will be Iraqis. Meanwhile, as earlier stated, in this country we have lost 3 million jobs. And…

Billions of dollars, and yet we cannot find the money here to invest in America.

I have to say that my colleague is wrong, my dear friend from Philadelphia. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, predicts the deficit for the next fiscal year will be $480 billion, $480 billion. And in the course of the past several…

While we were back in our districts working this past month, I am sure the gentleman noticed the announcement put out by the Congressional Budget Office in terms of the deficit that is accruing day by day on the future of the American…

What was the cost to our economy of the blackout that I think was of a 12- to maybe 24-hour duration, what was the cost?

In ruthless candor, these are his words, President Bush does not have the surplus of resources, military, strategic, financial, political, to hold the empire. As some of us predicted a decade ago, the compulsive interventionism of the…

The President, while meeting with the Italian Prime Minister, accused both Syria and Iran of continuing to harbor and assist terrorists; and he warned those two nations that they would 'face consequences.' I do not know what that means…

I dare say that if we expended the amounts of resources that we will be expending in Iraq for security and for reconstruction that we could have a prescription drug benefit plan, not just for seniors in this country, but for just about…

I will just follow the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) by saying that when I first heard the President in response to attacks on U.S. soldiers in the way that he does suggest bring them on, I remember wanting to say to the…

It is time to pick up on that to end grudge diplomacy. Let us get past that. Let us move on. Let us understand that the only way we can bring stability to Iraq without breaking the bank and without putting at risk the lives of American…

It is as if the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing. It is as if nobody is in charge. That is the only reasonable conclusion that one can infer from this murky explanation, this passing almost a legalistic argument.

India has made a decision through its democratic process that it will not send troops unless there is a United Nations resolution. What I am very, very concerned about is, are we going to end up in Iraq with a vast majority of troops…