John Tierney

America's priority right now is security. If you walk down any street, any main street in my district or anyone else's district, people are talking about security. They want to make sure that they are safe in their homes, safe in their…

This is not an argument about whether we will move forward or not. This is an argument of just how we will move forward. Everybody seems to understand what the purpose of the two rules, the 12-hour rule and the 50 percent provision, are…

The true fact of the matter is we only have to look at scientists. There are a number of people missing from this debate that would not be in favor of national missile defense. They are basically most scientists, our European allies and…

First, we will have national insecurity, not national security if we start down the path of deploying and actually building and producing a system that is not yet workable. I do not think anybody can make a logical argument that this…

However, I have to make mention that I think we are going in the right direction perhaps in reducing the amount of money allocated to national missile defense, but we are not going far enough. We would all love to throw an umbrella around…

I join all of our colleagues and all Americans in our sorrow for Tuesday's victims and in our outrage for the despicable acts of cowardice which have so changed our lives. Tonight, we show our unity; and by so doing we serve notice that…

I join Americans everywhere today and tonight, as well as my colleagues here, in expressing our sorrow and sympathy and condolences to every family and friend who has experienced a loss as a result of what went on in yesterday's tragedies…

The only thing that has been compromised here with the Norwood amendment is the rights of the American people as patients. In 6 months, the President has done to this bill what he was unable to do in Texas: he has killed those rights of…

for 5 years-plus Democrats and some Republicans have worked towards a Patients' Bill of Rights. The real heroes in this one are the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Ganske) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell). On the Senate side, they…

reclaiming my time, it goes beyond that. No longer will you have to have a proximate cause be the conduct of decisionmakers, but the cause. In a complex area like health care, that is a dangerous thing, and I think the gentleman would…

I would like to provide a copy of correspondence made available from three notable professionals in health care law and policy, Sarah Rosenbaum, David Frankfort, and Rand Rosbenblatt... reasonable professionals that deal with this every…

Reclaiming my time, I have respect for that, but the short part of the matter is that people are being put out of work at the EPA and enforcement will not proceed as it should on this. This is nothing new. This majority and this…

I think we should just get rid of the mirrors and the smoke on this, Mr. Chairman, and cut straight to the heart of the matter. This administration is simply attempting to undercut the authority and the effectiveness of the EPA by reducing…

We do not want $100 million to go to the military of Colombia, because we are sick and tired of their continued collaborations with paramilitary groups. The reason why we are moving this amendment forward, quite frankly, is because this…

I might respectfully just disagree with the gentleman on the last point, as I think the National Academy of Science does, when they indicated that they think this idea of having three different agencies with overlapping and different…

I would hope that the chairman would just know, this is the second year we have presented this motion; and I think it is a pretty balanced motion. We are seeking here to both give consumers confidence, that the gentleman from Ohio points…

Amendment No. 24 offered by Mr. Tierney: In title I, under the heading "AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE-salaries and expenses", insert at the end the following: SEC. __. REPORT REGARDING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS. (a) In General.--Not…

In Massachusetts, there are 85,000 people who rely on LIHEAP in order to get their fuel. I think, however, the gentlewoman from Connecticut makes the point that we need more funds than the committee made available. We have large amounts of…

We ought to engage our brains before we engage our pocketbooks. What sharp contrast that statement is to the administration's apparent focus now on starting a system that they admit has not been shown to have been tested thoroughly and…

I think there is an obvious answer to that. For this country to move forward and commit billions of dollars on a system that is not known to work, has not been tested, and when Mr. Coyle, the reporter of which I spoke earlier, specifically…

This administration, as I started off by saying, has a ready, shoot, in-their-name approach to this whole policy. This is much like what has been going on with a number of the policies of this administration. They have unilaterally claimed…

I would just point out this next quote up here, the gentleman has exactly hit on the point. On June 7, Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, at a press conference, people were asking him, ``Does it even work?'' His answer was, ``This…

I join a number of my colleagues here this evening to discuss the administration's policy on national missile defense. I put up on the board here one of the comics that was recently in a newspaper showing Secretary Powell with members of…

I thank the gentleman. Even if we were to assume on our wildest dreams, because that is essentially what it would be, North Korea, one of the poorest nations in the world, that cannot even feed its own people, would wake up some morning…

I want to thank him for putting together this time and for all he did in the last couple of weeks, as well as throughout Joe's latter years of his life and being that kind of friend and doing us all the honor of befriending him in that…