Bill Delahunt

Can I suggest that what we will see with that trend line in terms of the increase of the number of scientists and mathematicians and computer personnel is those jobs, those well-paying jobs will also trend towards China and India and OPEC…

And we want to fully fund, if the gentleman would yield, we want to fully fund the landmark legislation that was passed in a bipartisan way under the leadership of Mr. Miller and others and Republicans that was described as the No Child…

I think these are the points we have to stress is that the trends, as you allude to, are running in the wrong direction; and I guess if we do not jump start with this initiative and work with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle…

If I can, just for a moment, just to digress, because we have been talking about Katrina and the fraud and the mismanagement associated with the Katrina spending, I think it is important to remember, too, that about half of the 700…

And to pay the interest and our debts off to the Chinese, Japanese, the Koreans and OPEC.

The GAO auditor, Gregory Kurz, told senators during a hearing that the amount of waste and abuse and fraud could be hundreds of millions of dollars. They just do not know yet. {time} 2245 As he indicated, FEMA may also have brought too…

A $450 tattoo. Federal money also paid for $375 a day beachfront condos and almost 11,000 trailers that were stuck in the mud and unusable.

Are you aware with the President's budget that 263,000 of our veterans will be denied access to veterans health care?

Along with the dollars we are using to buy oil at $60- plus a barrel to heat our homes.

It was a long process all day, Mr. Meek. But I just about accounted for everybody that it was appropriate. And a happy Valentine's Day to you and to your family. I had an opportunity to meet your family recently, and they are great folks…

We are also giving money to the Iraqi people and denying it to the American people.

This is a quote from October 28, a column by Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, again, people that would not agree with me or my colleagues on this side of the aisle. Here is what they said: Defense officials tell us the scandal involves…

But the American people have a right of transparency and watching and hearing from these people. You make that effort and I understand that you do and you ask questions, but we need to do this in the light of day. There is pervasive…

From September 11 of 2001 to today, has anything changed in terms of our preparedness for a major terrorist attack such as we experienced in New York and here in Washington? Has anything changed according to the 9/11 report of any…

There is no doubt that we know that he did have weapons of mass destruction because we provided, during the 1980s, the means for the development of those weapons to Saddam Hussein. Members of this administration, former Secretary of State…

We have wasted billions of dollars of taxpayers' money in Iraq, and yet not a single hearing. And I do not want a hearing where some administration official comes up and presents a 5-minute overview and we have 5 minutes to question. I am…

We do not know. But you know what is sad is that this Republican majority in Congress will not allow us an oversight hearing to determine whether this report is true or not. There has not been a single hearing in the House of…

And they will not have a hearing. They are afraid of transparency and accountability.

Neither did Paul O'Neill, the former Secretary of Treasury who served on the National Security Council.

I did. I am rested up and looking forward to participating tonight. {time} 2230 I do concur with everything you said and, again, I want to acknowledge your commitment, your creativity, and the fact that this is an effort to allow people to…

Well, I am part of the 30-Something Working Group. I might be a two-fer, though. You know, I mean, I would suggest that in my case you get two for one.

If I can just interrupt, I heard that in my absence the other night that there were some comments that were made about my lack of, well, made about my absence. Could you explain that to me?

Right. Ask General Shinseki, who was dismissed when he disagreed, when he gave just a different opinion as to the number of troops that were going to be required in Iraq. He said 300,000. The then-Under Secretary of Defense, Mr. Wolfowitz…

Our party controls the levers of government. We are not about to go out and look beneath a bunch of rocks to try to cause heartburn.'' In other words, you have a shroud of secrecy that has descended around the democratic institutions that…

Because he sided with the veterans of foreign wars, with the American Legion, with the disabled veterans and the various veterans services organizations.