Debbie Dingell

Let me observe that, first of all, the gentleman is dead wrong. I said that that particular package of reforms was not something which was acceptable. I encouraged the Governors to reject it and I urge you to reject it. I have never…

I rise to announce the death of a distinguished former Member of this body, a colleague of ours and a friend of many of us here, the Honorable John Lesinski, Jr., who passed away on Friday, October 21, 2005. He served in this Congress with…

I have no requests for time at this time, so I reserve the balance of my time. If the gentlewoman wants to terminate the debate, I will be supportive of that.

With great pleasure, I yield 2 minutes to my dear friend, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton).

Although not opposed, I ask unanimous consent to claim the 15 minutes in opposition. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) will control the 15 minutes in opposition. There was no objection. The…

I believe that I am entitled to close the debate? The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) is entitled to close and the gentleman has 1 minute remaining.

It sounds to me like they are going to stick it to the ordinary uniformed military service under the rank of lieutenant, and let everybody else off the hook. This is a bad proposal.

That is what the administration would tell us, but I would say to my friend, that I am as confused on what the administration's policy is as the administration is and as my good friend is, because they do not seem to know what they are…

I rise to assert my strong support for the Shays-Meehan substitute and to urge my colleagues to do likewise and to vote down all poison pills and crippling amendments.

I do not propose to rebut what my dear and valued friend has said about me. I do not remember setting up a straw man, but I would like to say the gentleman has mentioned H. Con. Res. 253 which I sponsored earlier and with which the…

All of that dies, but the preemption clause remains, and, as a result of this, the subscriber to the health care plan is left totally naked and devoid of any protection or any rights to enforce his interests in his policy.

What does this amendment do? It eliminates two items of assistance. The first is $600,000 for the Lebanese Army. The second is $35 million to USAID for humanitarian concern and aid to U.S. educational institutions in Lebanon. What my good…

I rise in opposition to this outrageous piece of legislation on which none of my Republican colleagues have the vaguest idea of what they are doing.

I want to observe to the gentleman I think his complaint is a very legitimate one and thank him for raising it, and indicate that I know that the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee and my good friend the gentleman from Ohio (Mr…

These are important programs. They are great national treasures and they are a curious example of legislation which is protected by people who pay taxes, and the taxpayers and the sportsmen who pay the taxes are those who are the strongest…

I agree with my good friend that the Service should, in fact, start such a review. It is my hope that that will take place and that they should make every effort to have it completed within 120 days and to be without any taint of outside…

I want to observe that I have been much impressed with the gentleman's statement on the point of order. Regretfully, he is correct, but we still need this language to be enacted into law, and the reason is, without it, the President's…

This medical privacy provision has no more assurance of protection of the ordinary citizen or patient than does a lace doily of stopping a flood. The simple fact of the matter is existing law is better than the provision that we are…

The way to address the matter is to take out unfortunate language and put in good language in a separate medical records privacy bill. At least, if we do not allow this language to remain in the legislation when it finally does go to the…

Madam Chairman, what we are talking about here is a banking system and a financial system that is going to be fair and open. The gentleman, I am sure, will recall that this amendment was adopted unanimously, unanimously by the House last…

I know the authors of this amendment are Members of great decency and goodness, and I think they are accomplishing something that they really do not want. This is opposed by the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of Treasury…

Reclaiming my time, I have a further question of my good friend. Is this provision also intended to prohibit a broadcast station from negotiating different terms and conditions, including price terms, with different distributors?

Let us be clear, the government of South Korea provided Hanbo Steel with a $6 billion subsidy to continue producing steel. Hanbo is producing the same steel that sits in our ports and results in American steel workers losing their jobs…

They said it was not necessary. They said it was not proper. They said it was not justified. Yet here we in the Congress, with no hearings, with no information, simply with power for prejudice and enormous lobbying effort by COMSAT's…

What happens every time this provision comes into play is that the competitors, the providers, the suppliers and the customers of COMSAT then get together and they renegotiate the contract, and COMSAT has got to constantly reduce rates…