Steny Hoyer

Absolutely, that is my point. And if the gentleman would support pay-as-you-go, perhaps we would not have to look to other ways to try to get to balance.

I think the gentleman certainly makes a point that we do not want to delegate to the executive branch. I think the gentleman makes a good point: We ought not to delegate.

During this month, we celebrate the important contributions Asian Pacific Americans have made to our great country. More importantly, I thank every Asian American for the extraordinary contribution they have made to this country.

I will tell my friend, he has repeated the fact that we knew this in January at least four or five times, that I have heard. If that is the case, and I take him at his word, frankly, I did not focus on it, the chairman did not focus on it…

It is a shame we cannot have a longer, more substantive debate on this. The gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) got up and criticized the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Moore) for his inconsistency. He is for middle-class tax cuts, as I am; but…

I got up to my office, and I heard the comments of the gentleman from Pennsylvania. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) both said not the perspective you thought revenues were going to…

Our goal was to allow more families and more businesses to keep more of their money, thereby encouraging private sector investment and consumer spending. These investments are driving, we feel, the economy forward. They are helping create…

Reclaiming my time, I take that as a yes. The gentleman mentioned extending the $1,000 child tax credit. Do you think this time we might include those families that are making less than $26,000 on this go-around? That has been pending for…

Reclaiming my time, the reason I asked the question, obviously, is members of the Committee on Ways and Means had not heard about marking up that bill. Is there some reason we are not pursuing the regular order and having that bill…

At a time of great challenge for our country abroad, we find ourselves unfortunately divided at home, not only in the Congress but our country divided, as all of us know, and that is reflected in the very close divisions that we find when…

I think we still have some work to do on that, hopefully in a bipartisan fashion. This is obviously a critical problem confronting the Congress and the American people. Hopefully, perhaps, we can reach some agreement on that. I have been…

I do not necessarily expect an answer today, but I really would hope, because we are talking about very significant, important issues, where there are differences in a bipartisan fashion on either alternative, that alternatives should be…

It is a jobs bill, a very important jobs bill to all of us here in the House. We want to do what we can to create these jobs and get them going as fast as possible.

As a matter of fact, we are as pleased about that as we were last year when the gentleman from Texas urged everybody to support our motion to instruct, that we follow the House Democratic substitute as opposed to the one that we actually…

I am encouraging the minority to present substitutes so that we can have a very healthy debate about the future of this country and how we would as a House decide that the importance of the budget is such that we can come to some sort of…

Lastly, Mr. Leader, the Foreign Sales Corporation Act, as the gentleman knows, we have not modified that, and the European Union has said on March 1, a few days from now, Monday, they have the ability to start imposing sanctions on U.S…

I know there is bipartisan support for what was referred to as the Crane- Rangel bill. I am not sure what it is referred to now, the Rangel- Manzullo bill. I think we could proceed in a bipartisan way if that bill could be moved forward. I…

I want to make this comment. I make it as an interesting comment, that during the Clinton years, the gentleman claims that it was the Republicans who created those jobs. Is it not ironic, Mr. Leader, that the Republicans cannot do that…

There were 39 Republicans who joined over 190 Democrats to say that we need to give unemployment insurance to those families who have lost it. To assert that that was a political stunt, with all due respect, Mr. Leader, is incorrect. It…

Mr. Leader, you indicate there will be a short-term extension of the highway reauthorization bill scheduled for next week. Can you tell us as to when the full reauthorization, the permanent reauthorization, will be ready for consideration…

I want to take you back to October 28, 1987. The House was considering a controversial Democratic budget reconciliation bill... The vote was 206 to 205. This bill, for over 2 hours, had an absolute majority of the House of Representatives…

I want to make the public aware of the fact that we differ from time to time on partisan issues, but if the chairman of this committee, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), had not been such a tenacious supporter both of revising and…

Joe Skeen was one of those Members who added greatly to the comity of this body. He had deep convictions, but he also had a deep respect for those with whom he served. Joe Skeen will be missed by New Mexico, by his family, but he will also…

Mr. Speaker, this Congress seems destined to end the first session of the 108th Congress in the same hapless and undemocratic way in which we began it. One of our first acts this year was to pass an omnibus appropriations bill on February…

Intolerance based on one's religious belief, ethnicity and race is a poison that has coursed throughout the body of human history, and it has caused untold suffering, pain and strife. This great Nation itself, Madam Speaker, was settled by…