Bill Delahunt

Who do not give money to politicians. But because he sided with them in terms of their priorities, their expression of what was needed to properly respect the needs of American servicepeople who have done so much for this country, you know…

What we need is the Congress to reassert itself, coming together on a bipartisan basis and demanding oversight because, you know what, this administration is the most secretive administration in all of American history. Let me make one…

They were going to try to pull the same thing in the gulf States. They were doing the same thing. They were importing the same practices from Iraq that have resulted in this incredible brewing scandal. They were going to do the same thing…

It is worse than that. You know what is happening in Louisiana, Mr. Speaker? You know what is happening? They have got a bill for $4 billion. That is the estimate. If they want help from the Federal Government they have got to come up with…

But they want $4 billion from the State of Louisiana, and the State of Louisiana's annual budget is $8 billion. So half of it would go to the Federal Government so that Louisiana can get relief from their Federal Government. That just does…

Well, if I can ask a question, who is paying for the creation or the establishment of all of those primary health care centers in Iraq? Who is paying for that?

Maybe the gentleman can help confirm what I just heard when I was in the cloakroom, and that is over 10 years, it is $40 billion that is reduced from Medicare. Obviously, we are not consulted, and it is not something that we would support…

If you think about it in terms of individuals and then extrapolate to nations, it is really easy to understand. We are borrowing a trillion dollars. Let us say we are borrowing, just for the sake of discussion purposes, half of that from…

I have to tell my colleagues something about corruption. My colleagues have not seen anything yet.

Government, with all due respect, and I do not disagree, but what government is about, it is about representing the people. {time} 2245

Can someone explain to me, anybody, why the oil companies, that had revenues in the last quarter of some $100 billion, each and every one of them saw huge increases in terms of their net profits, why they need subsidies?

Not a bad quarter. In one quarter, Exxon-Mobile had a net profit of $10 billion. Simultaneously, today in the Budget Committee, there was a motion, a motion to increase the so-called LIHEAP program.

There is another crisis coming too, and that is the cost of home heating fuel in the Northeast and in the Midwest that is going to strike particularly the elderly. As we know, gas is about $3 a gallon, and the utilities are now predicting…

He is going to own that interest rate, too, because that is interest rate is going up.

Well, I cannot understand why anyone would ask about my accent, because I would submit that I am the only person in this Chamber tonight that does not have an accent.

Maybe somebody can help me, because this is a question that the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Inslee) posed, but this is directed to this specific case. What does it tell you about an administration that will not confront a direct…

Correct. Let me suggest this: what is at risk here is not the Republican Party, not the Democratic Party, but the viability and the health of our democracy. That is why, along with some very good Republicans, we are insistent that…

If my friend from New Jersey would yield for a moment, I would direct my colleagues' attention to Wednesday, October 22, the Congressional Quarterly Today that you all know we receive once a week here. What is the headline? Just to…

That is Colonel Larry Wilkerson, a Republican, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Let me just say, and this is an understatement, this is disturbing. But this is the atmosphere, this is the context, this is why we…

How about helping our kids? How about helping our elderly? How about helping our disabled? How about protecting our cities? We talk about a strong America. A strong America begins at home. That is really what it is about. Right now, given…

There was a dam up in Taunton, Massachusetts, in a district that is represented by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) that was on the verge of collapsing and inundating a city of some 50,000 that would have been a disaster. But…

It is just another example of a great sense of humor on the part of our colleagues on the other side on the aisle. They gave us and the American people who were watching this evening a real good belly laugh. Fiscal responsibility? Please.

I thank my friend from Ohio. Before I begin to comment, let me say that over the past several months I have had a chance to observe the gentleman and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Meek) and the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman…

I see. I know the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone). We share the same alma mater, Middlebury College in Vermont. I know that I graduated a decade or so before the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone).

And that would be Congressman Robert Simmons, and I am sure that people from all over the country would not have difficulty finding that number, and it would certainly be a wonderful acknowledgment of the Coast Guard personnel that are…