Peter Blute

The majority whip was referring to the USA Today article yesterday which was very extensively researched. It was referring to the passenger-side airbags and the regulations that were imposed a number of years ago that were not well thought…

The amendment will mean that an additional 2,000 units of elderly housing will be built which translates into tens of thousands helped over the life of the buildings and will give more of our parents and grandparents the ability to live…

We are going to continue this. We are going to continue to pursue signatories. We have 70 cosponsors. We think, as the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Tauzin] said, every Member should sign it. It is basically fairly basic stuff most people…

I think a great example of this was the political relationship between somebody who I have a great deal of respect for, who brought me into Republican politics. That was our former President, Ronald Reagan, and his relationship with…

And with some great humor exchanges between them which communicated to the American people that the Government at least could ultimately decide on things, move forward on that key question that we respect each other as Americans first and…

But again, you know, we need to have vigorous debate. I mean, again the people who were promoting this civility resolution are some of the hardest, toughest debaters, and I have heard Zach out there. Jay gave a speech earlier on the…

I just noticed that we are surrounded by Southerners here. But of course we do not have any accents up there in New England, of course. You know, some of the finest moments that I have experienced here were interparty tributes. For…

Stood up for his people, for their civil rights. That is a tremendous history. And I think from my own area, the Kennedy family and their great history and contributions to America. You have got Patrick Kennedy and Joe Kennedy. I mean…

If I could just interrupt for a second, Jefferson had a great line. I do not have the exact line, but he said that we should always believe that our opposition is at least, there is a 10-percent chance that they may be right, that we may…

They are patriotic. They believe their philosophy is something that will help people. I think to some extent we have gotten away from that, and we think of our opposition in a debate format as someone who actually is out to hurt the…

I think does it not begin by ceding to your opponent here in this well or on the clash of ideas over these very divisive issues, it begins by ceding one thing to your opponent up front, that their motivation is, in their view, in the best…

Well, Mr. Chairman, I would only say, reclaiming my time from the gentlewoman, that implicit in that argument is that all income belongs to the Federal Government and that the Federal Government should decide how they will share it with…

Mr. Chairman, this bill does not affect the Budget and Accounting Act. The budget would still flow through the executive untouched. But once the legislative branch was involved then, rightly so, the executive branch should be involved also…

I would simply respond that we wanted to narrow the scope of this capability of the President's, to limit it and to target it at the most egregious examples of tax pork. I think we have done that. We adopted a Democrat amendment.

Well, if it related to specifically 26 companies, then the President would be able to veto that particular benefit. It it goes beyond 100, then he would not.