John Tierney

Today we are debating the administration's request for an $87 billion bailout occasioned by its failed planning, or rather, its failure to plan, its lack of planning for postwar Iraq. We are asked to pass this $87 billion bailout despite…

Mr. Speaker, I understand the levity in which we all rise here today; and I think in the best of spiritedness, the question for us that this would be a time for the House of Representatives to pass a resolution congratulating just a single…

I rise today to add a word of caution to my colleagues about this legislation and to support the Democratic substitute. Everybody in this body supposedly supports charities and the important work that they do. At the same time, however…

Mr. Speaker, this issue of safety is nothing more than a red herring, and to the American people it is another example of big corporate interest and big government joining together against the interest of the American people. Tonight we…

We have heard talk tonight about people saying that everybody on this side of the aisle wants to have things stay the same, and that frankly is not so. We worked quite hard together to make changes and improvements in the first section of…

Mr. Chairman, I think the theme of this particular bill seems to be 'promises made and promises broken.' The fact of the matter is that this theme is true with respect to K through 12 education, where President Bush's own education bill…

But as the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) mentioned, there are other good things that could have and should have been in this bill that unfortunately have been set aside because of the self-inflicted situation where the…

I am proud cosponsor of this legislation here today, a bill to commemorate the remarkable life and tremendous achievements of a woman who served with great distinction in the House of Representatives. To Patsy's friends, to her husband…

Mr. Chairman, I have introduced the Build America Act Amendment, which is a step towards ensuring that the United States defense jobs are performed by United States defense workers. American defense workers are 100 percent committed to our…

I am disappointed in the legislation that we are debating today, because this could have been much better. We are only days after depressing job reports, the most depressing reports in decades, released by the Department of Labor showing…

I rise in honor of the 182nd anniversary of Greek independence. As a member of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, I once again join my colleagues in paying tribute to the Greek nation and its people. Today in the Congress of the…

I rise today in the face of mounting evidence of a national crisis in retiree health care, and I want to announce the reintroduction yesterday of the Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act, known as H.R. 1322. Mr. Speaker, H.R…

I want to say that we all understand the issues that are here and we understand the impact that premiums have on doctors, but it is a shame that we have to choose a vehicle in this bill that pits doctors against victims of malpractice. The…

If you remember the debates about the Patients' Bill of Rights, where doctors and consumer-patients, consumer groups and others were together on this issue, understood that we needed to have protections against HMOs and the like, needed to…

But when you sit people down and talk to them, it is really easy to see that this bill is not about doctors, it is not about lawyers, it is not about patients, it is about insurance companies.

Mr. Chairman, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have simply put a new number on last year's bill without any apparent attempt to address the new realities of this worsening economy. That bill is, in terms, harsh and seems to be…

as the previous colleague just said, the decision of whether or not to send our young men and women to danger and to possibly kill or harm others is certainly the most solemn and serious decision the Members of Congress will have to make…

I rise to express my condolences on the death of the Honorable Patsy Mink. I rise this evening to join my colleagues in commemoration of the remarkable life and tremendous achievements of the woman who served with great distinction in the…

I suppose that the gentleman who just spoke up understands that the constituents in his State have lost about $5.25 billion of their hard-earned nest egg due to a poor economy, corporate scandal, and weak pension laws, and in fact, what is…

I thought we might take a minute this morning to talk about the fact that while our economy struggles and while families across America watch helplessly as their retirement savings dwindle away as a result of corporate greed and…

there has been much debate on how the United States should proceed with Iraq. I rise to draw attention to an issue that is critical to this decision-making process. As we debate how and whether to take military action in Iraq, I should…

I think he is right, but the one stubborn fact that we cannot avoid here this afternoon is that this bill does nothing. It is a very stubborn fact that this is a resolution of the House attempting somehow to tell the other body when and…

I rise in strong unity with my colleagues in urging passage of the welfare reauthorization bill some time this year. We do have a responsibility to provide meaningful job training, job training that will work with our community colleges…

Mr. Speaker, today citizens across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are going to the polls to cast their votes in the State's primary election. It is certainly fitting that on this same day, the House of Representatives votes to honor one…

Mr. Speaker, I am a member of the House Committee on Government Reform and I am pleased to join my colleagues in the consideration of H.R. 4102, which names a post office in Fallon, Nevada, after the late Rollon D. Melton. H.R. 4102, which…