Bill Delahunt

Again, I think he rethought that statement, because of the reaction, actually, from Democrats in this House. Because we were not going to tolerate it. But, I will tell you, he is shaking hands with the President of Iran who described the…

I don't think it was ``friend.'' It was not ``friend,'' but it was even more intimate. I can't find the quote right now, even though this is a story that came out today where the Prime Minister of Iraq, after his meeting with President…

Exactly. The President of the United States has achieved a remarkable, an absolutely remarkable, accomplishment.

We know this, those questions will never get asked as long as the Republican Party is the majority party in Congress.

But now we have a new picture. We have a picture of the President of Iran and the Prime Minister of Iraq. What have we done? Can anybody answer the question? {time} 2320

I think we have got to underscore that the former Speaker was the leader when he served here of the Republican Party.

Less than 1 percent. And this is the crowd, this is the crowd that is talking about border enforcement. We have to enforce our borders. But the truth is that there is a lot of talk, a lot of rhetoric, a lot of hot air, and when it comes…

If I could ask a question because I just find this stunning. How many enforcement actions against employers were brought in the year 2000 by the Bush administration?

Can I just suggest, just on those two items alone, I would submit that that is disgraceful.

The people in this country need to vote for a Congress that will ask those questions. How did we get him? How did we arrive here?

Do you know when this picture was taken? This picture was taken today, today. So with the loss of almost 2,700 American military personnel, Madam Speaker, in the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, what is the reality in the…

What I am suggesting is the greatest beneficiary of the military invasion of Iraq by the United States is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Madam Speaker, you must remember, of course, when the President of the United States in his State of…

I voted, and, again, with one exception out of 435 Members, there was a unanimous vote here in this Chamber, bipartisan, Republicans and Democrats and Independent, to go to Afghanistan and destroy al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden and…

Well, if one reviews the memoir of Paul O'Neill, former Republican Secretary of the Treasury, who served in this Bush administration for 2 years, and in that capacity was a member of the National Security Council, you will discover that he…

He has been to Tehran, like Mr. Maliki has been to Tehran, and Mr. Zebari and Mr. Chalabi, all of the friends of the neoconservative movement, they have lived in Tehran for a considerable period of time. But let us talk about this today…

Today is the 26th of July, Mr. Speaker. The 26th of July. You know that I, and hopefully accompanied by others, was going to go to Caracas this August, have a conversation, and come back with a signed agreement. That is the hope. But with…

First of all, my friend made a misstatement about Chavez going to North Korea, but that is irrelevant to the revolution.

Well, I think what he said in a quote that appears here, really, is the summation, if you will, of his disgust with what is occurring in the American political system. He described it as a broken system. These are his words, Newt…

Just stop for one moment. The war in Afghanistan and Iraq has been going on for years. Every day we pick up a newspaper and learn about the loss of American lives. {time} 2200 Every day we hear about the rampant corruption that goes on in…

But, Madam Speaker, the Republican majority in this House is spending the American people's money not in America, but in Iraq.

Well, I think a lot of it is going to line the pockets of corrupt officials because that is what Mr. Walker, who is the Comptroller General of the United States, found. He expressed concern about the black market in the sale of oil. We all…

Well, I would suggest that that is a remarkable statement by an individual who led the Republican Party to a majority in this House. When he says it is time for the American people to start firing everyone, that is to me a demonstration…

Can you tell me what his solution to the crisis that this country is now facing in terms of its democratic institutions and its relationship between a White House that has acquired incredible power and a Congress that continues to see…

Could I just submit a hypothesis for a minute? You know, one of the leaders in the neoconservative movement, a Mr. Grover Norquist, coined an interesting term called shrinking government, until it practically disappears. This…

Can you tell us what that number is, as compared to the 417 under President Clinton?