Mark Kennedy

Our FAST Act does provide for those connections. It does provide for maintenance, and it is a perfect complement to some of the most efficient transit options that are out there in the form of bus rapid transit. If you use congestion…

we are hearing two sides of a story here. On one side we are hearing doom and gloom. On the other side from folks like myself who have had a chance to go over to Iraq, we are hearing a story that there is much more progress there than the…

today this House is set to pass a historic bill, the partial-birth abortion ban. We have passed it several times in the past, but this time is different. In this case, we have a President who has said that he will sign this important bill…

A Gallup Poll conducted in January found that 70 percent of those surveyed favored banning this horrible procedure. Even doctors agree on this point. The overwhelming share of doctors believe this procedure is not necessary. The…

I am pleased to say that there is finally light at the end of the tunnel in what has been a long battle. Tomorrow, the House is poised to pass the conference report on S. 3, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. This conference…

I would just remind us to keep in mind that under Federal and most State laws, a live birth is when a baby is entirely delivered from a mother and shows any sign of life, regardless of whether or not it has yet reached the stage where it…

I would like to close by sharing a story that is in my heart, a story and some thoughts on a community in my district that has recently shown us all the way that we should respect each other, that we should respect life itself. When I…

even the strongest abortion rights supporters have a hard time defending this procedure. In four of the last five Congresses, Congress has passed a partial-birth abortion ban by a two-thirds majority. Instead, abortion rights supporters…

Partial-birth abortion, it is often said is there, to try to help the women's health. But so often it is detrimental to the very things that people say it is trying to help. So often women suffer from depression and psychological stress…

as the gentleman mentioned, with electricity, we are bringing forth that core concept of equal treatment under the law. No longer does the Baath Party chair or the Sunni Arabs around Baghdad get their electricity before the rest of the…

I would absolutely agree. The issue we have is we have a situation where we have a country that is in desperate need and has traditionally been a source of frustration for its own neighbors, disrupting the security of its own neighbors and…

The cost of freedom is high, but the cost of not defending freedom is far greater... that is the kind of grave, grave tragedy that we have recovered them from.

I could not be prouder either and the gentleman is right. We have 130-or-so thousand, from I think it is up to 30 countries now. It is about 55,000 Iraqis on the job making sure that Iraqis are safe, and that number is growing. I think it…

And the gentleman spoke of the satellite dishes. They are watching all kinds of channels now that they never saw before. They are seeing the outside world. If you ask me, Mr. Speaker, what the average Iraqi thinks, the average Iraqi is…

And we absolutely saw that. People might ask if everything is so great over there, why do we need this money to rebuild Iraq. Well, I want to point out, it was not due to the war. As we went through Baghdad, and I am sure the gentleman…

This is the front line in the war on terrorism. We are up against people who kill men and women with no mercy and with no shame. One of the most vivid discussions I had was with the vice mayor of Mosul. He said, for you in America, this is…

Our soldiers are doing a fabulous job. They are rightly proud of the great work they are doing, and they are not alone. We have long known that the British have had a region of the country around Basra. But while we were there, down in…

Yes. And, Mr. Speaker, one of the things we did not see was all the planned-for catastrophes that never happened. We have challenges, yes, but the dams were not blown up, so they did not flood everybody down river. The oil refineries and…

I would say the gentleman is absolutely right on all of those counts. One of the reasons that possibly explains why we get such negative press is that Iraq, like America, is a very diverse country, with a lot of different ethnic groups and…

my amendment is simple. It increases funding for some incredibly important programs within this bill. The amendment doubles funding for the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, the tax counseling for the elderly programs…

I rise to support the Millennium Challenge Account. My amendment deals with the manner in which countries are deemed eligible on the basis of public health expenditures. The Millennium Challenge Account and the corporation which will be…

I would add that a big part of the difference which would make that chart look radically different is we have not felt that defense spending is discretionary spending, and all of that and more of the decreases were done on the back of…

I would just say we are for reducing the debt. We did pay down $453 billion of debt from 1998 to 2001. We are for having that deficit come down. How did it get there? Eighty percent of the change from where we were when we had surplus and…

My concern is we are hearing a lot about the debt, and we care about the debt, but what is the goal? Is the goal to get it in balance no matter how it is, and how we get there really does not make any difference, whether it is raising…

on this 16th day of June, 2003, as the Ford Motor Company celebrates its 100th anniversary, in the city of St. Cloud, Minnesota, which is in my congressional district, the world's oldest Ford dealership, Tenvoorde Ford, is celebrating its…