John Tierney

A large number of older Americans, people 40 years and older, have in fact lost up to 50 percent of the value of their plans. This is not some substantive change in the law that is being asked for here. The law says we cannot discriminate…

Mr. Speaker, I rise only to say that we thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) for bringing this matter before the House; and we, of course, agree that Mr. Carrier has a long and distinguished career and a great invention; and we…

Mr. Speaker, as a member of Committee on Government Reform, I am pleased to join my colleague in consideration of H.R. 4755, a bill in fact to designate a facility of the United States Postal Service after Clarence Miller. Obviously the…

I rise to also support House Resolution 452 for consideration this afternoon. I do think it takes note again for the young people that are here that this is not just about winning and losing a hockey game, but more about the hard work and…

Mr. Speaker, I want to just reiterate some of the points that my esteemed colleague from Connecticut made... he served his country nobly there and was a hero and continued on beyond that. Even after he finished his baseball career, he…

no, it is not likely; and Mr. Coyle made that point, that they do not have the realistic testing scenarios in place and planned for execution before 2004. That is what they should be doing. They should be having realistic scenarios in…

Again, I go to the point of Philip Coyle, who was the director of the operations and testing evaluation program for the Pentagon, who came out clearly and has testified before committees in this House and has made it quite known publicly…

they have a history of having failures. They have had some successes, but none of the successes without those additional components.

the way they have structured it so far, there will not be any tests before 2004 where the beacon will not be present.

I am saying that the testimony was from the Pentagon's own person, the person who was in charge of doing operational testing and evaluation, Mr. Coyle. It was his job on behalf of the Pentagon, as directed by this Congress, to evaluate…

this particular matter, an amendment, goes to reducing the budget by $121.8 million that is now earmarked for the construction of five silos at Fort Greely. This does not deal with research but rather the construction. You will remember…

we have a system here where they are testing, and they have not tested adequately to get to the point to where they should be constructing.

that is absolutely accurate, and when they failed to do that they then tried to change the nature in which they proceed with the system to make it harder to measure, and now they are trying to classify it. If I could add one word and make…

I rise to support a bill to help local officials and our emergency responders better protect our communities. I am a proud cosponsor of H.R. 4598, the Homeland Security Information Sharing Act. We need this bill so we can promote the…

Republicans appear addicted to drug company money. Why else would they try to fool the American people with a plan written with the drug companies that fails to cover over 90 percent of seniors, that insurance companies say they will not…

I think we are doing the exact right thing here today in passing this Small Business Paperwork Relief Act. But I would be remiss if I did not respond somewhat to a lot of the hyperbole that we have heard on the other side. Nobody wants…

I do not know what the reason for that was, but certainly I do not want to leave it with the public or the Speaker the impression that that was part of the legislative history, the negotiations between the subcommittees, the committees…

Mr. Chairman, this bill started as a bipartisan committee effort. It was done in order to fund the emergency needs for defense and homeland security. That is why it was so grating to sit here last night and again today while many of our…

Mr. Speaker, the Children's Defense Fund, which so many of us remember as the original individuals who doctored the slogan ``leave no child behind'' before it was so unceremoniously expropriated by our President for an education bill that…

No, the amendment does not affect space-based sensors. It only affects space-based interceptors.

The politics of this rule are very simple. They did not want to have a straight matchup of each part of this bill. We are not allowed to bring forward amendments and talk about the several aspects that you heard the gentleman from…

Mr. Speaker, clearly this morning when I spoke on the rule I think I made a point worth repeating here and that is that the majority did not want to have a rule that allowed for individual amendments to be made because that would allow us…

I thank the Speaker because it is difficult to maintain a nexus, but we do have to take opportunity that we can to make sure that we are at least heard to some degree on this budget that is coming up and make sure that we use whatever time…

Mr. Speaker, today we are here to vote on the fate of mourning doves. That may be a serious matter, and people may in fact cherish the opportunity to go and shoot these birds, and that would be appropriate at some other time, I might…

Yesterday United Airlines and Argenbright Security were embarrassed to admit that they cleared a man through Chicago O'Hare Airport with seven knives and a stun gun. After enormous public outcry and international media exposure, they vowed…