since 2001, thousands of rockets and mortar have been indiscriminately fired into southern Israel at innocent civilians. When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, these rocket attacks continued. In December 2008, the negotiated cease fire…

before us is a very simple responsibility. It is a power that has been exercised exclusively by Congress since the very first Congress in 1789, when in the Indian Nonintercourse Act of that year, only Congress may extinguish Indian land…

I rise in support of H.R. 3403, the ``New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008''. This legislation ensures that consumers using Voice over Internet Protocol technology, or VoIP, can make full use of the 911 system in two…

while l cannot support the legislation before us today, I commend Majority Leader Hoyer for the work he has done to negotiate a bill that is substantially better than the version that passed in the Senate. This legislation, which will be…

today I rise in support of 2009 Budget Conference Report. I know many Members here today shared with me the opinion that the President's proposed budget was ``dead on arrival.'' This conference agreement upholds that opinion and goes a…

I am pleased to rise to speak on behalf of the thoroughly bipartisan legislation underlying this motion. I begin with a commendation to my good friend from Kentucky (Mr. Whitfield) and to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including…

Mr. Speaker, as you know, I have long supported filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and strongly support the Energy Policy Act of 2005 provision that directed the Secretary of Energy to fill the reserve "as expeditiously as…

today we consider H.R. 493, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. I first wish to congratulate Representative Slaughter for her leadership on this bill on which she has worked for better than 13 years. It has been a privilege to…

I voted against the original Patriot Act, I voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2005, I voted against the President's Protect America Act that was signed into law last August, and I remain prepared to vote against any…

today we are voting on the passage of H.R. 1424, the ``Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007'', which will permanently reauthorize and improve the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996. I commend my distinguished…

Madam Speaker, stock markets around the world are plummeting. Home foreclosures are ballooning. States, without exception, are facing budget crises. Employers are cutting jobs. Gas and heating oil prices are draining household budgets. The…

New Hampshire doesn't have the ordained right. And -- and the fact of the matter is, it doesn't reflect the diversity of this country.

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.

According to the most recent annual report of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the shortage of organs for transplant is getting worse. Approximately 21,715 transplants were performed in 1999. The number of persons on the…

I would observe that we have a chance here to instruct the conferees again. There is strong need for this because I would note to my colleagues that the leadership on the other side of the aisle has given no comfort whatsoever to those of…

I hope both the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bliley) and the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran) who just spoke will listen. This is a remarkable exercise. We have been discussing with our good friends on the majority side to find out what…

Mr. Speaker, it has been represented that Senator Rudman supports this. Let me read what he said about this with regard to the semi-autonomous weapons agency: ``We do not believe that the environmental health issues should be stripped from…

this is a rule which sanctifies bad behavior. There was no real conference held on this legislation. Members of the conference who were entitled to be present to participate were not invited and were informed when they showed up that there…

I commend the gentlewoman, and I thank her for yielding me this time. I want to express affection and respect for the authors of the amendment and just simply say some years ago I was in favor of this, but I have gotten wiser, and this…

I hope my colleagues are listening to the people out there because if there is one thing to be heard, people think that the system is corrupt, that it is being further corrupted by money, that it is being corrupted to the point where…

What are our priorities if we cannot repay those to whom we owe so greatly? Earlier this summer, against the wishes of the American people, the majority party in this House passed a trillion-dollar tax bill. It helped the rich, big…

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…

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…

this is a bad rule. It is a bad bill, and the process is arrogantly crafted to deny the House the opportunity to consider important questions. It is the function of the Committee on Rules to make possible an orderly debate but also to see…

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…