Richard Gephardt

This is a day of celebration for candidates and our families, and it is also a day of celebration of our continuing experiment in democracy, which we again have successfully achieved, even in the face of a very close election. What sets…

I rise on this rule today to let the American people know of the subterfuge that is going on in these waning days of the Congress. If this rule passes, we will have a bill which amends the budget law to raise the spending limits that now…

events are sometimes so horrible that words alone do not fully describe the pain and sorrow that is in all of our hearts. The tragedy aboard the U.S.S. Cole was just such an event. This act of cowardice and malice against 17 Americans who…

here we are again on another continuing resolution some 11, 12, or 13 days into the fiscal year; and we have not begun to finish our work. I am very disappointed that we come to the floor again to debate another continuing resolution…

today, we say goodbye to a good friend and colleague, Bruce Vento. Bruce was a humanitarian in every sense of the word. He called environmental issues his one ``true passion'' and he pursued that passion in a way that lifted up all…

I rise today because once again this Congress has failed the American people and handed the special interests a victory. I am deeply disappointed with this reimportation provision in this bill. There is now widespread agreement that this…

I rise to support the ending of the marriage penalty, to say that the Democratic alternative did that for people that actually have a marriage penalty, and our problem with this bill is that it extends about 60 percent of its benefits to…

this is a bad piece of legislation and I hope it is not passed, and I hope that the alternative that we have before the House could be passed in its stead. I think this bill should be renamed. It should be the Savage the Medicare Trust…

it seems to me that today's debate on this bill is a chance for us to begin to talk about a compromise that will achieve a lot of the ends that our friends have on the other side of the aisle and a lot of the ends and goals that people on…

this process, this rule is an outrage against the American people. It has been said that the Republican plan is a bipartisan plan. It is not a bipartisan plan. There has been no conversation about this plan and the putting together of the…

terrorism is the scourge of the modern world, and we must do everything in our power to deter and punish those who would commit such heinous acts. Our efforts in Congress must include support for all federal agencies and foreign allies who…

I am often asked if we can do anything here this year in a bipartisan way to solve the obvious problems that our country faces. This is an issue on which the Senate has taken a definitive position 57 to 42. Senator McCain said yesterday…

this is a great day for a wonderful institution. This is the room where all of the feelings and emotions of the American people on this very important issue get channeled and espoused and spoken as we make a collective decision on what is…

I rise in support of H.R. 3639, which names the headquarters of the Department of State after a great American from my home state of Missouri the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S Truman. And I commend my good friend and…

April Fool's day for the Republicans came a couple of weeks late. Every year they try to fool the American people during tax week into thinking that they are really doing something about the tax system that all of us struggle with and none…

this conference report is essentially the same document as the resolution Republicans had on the floor last month. The Republican budget plan, if implemented, would threaten our record prosperity and undermine the values of middle-class…

I would hope that we would welcome the new Chaplain that has been appointed by the Speaker and try our level best to make his service in this Congress as positive as it possibly can be. I am very sorry that we have come to this point. I…

I strongly support the motion that is before us today. The juvenile justice conference was supposed to hammer out a compromise bill. Instead, the conference seems to be in hibernation. It is bad enough that the conference has not met since…

do not be fooled. This is not an illustration of bipartisanship at work. This debate is a good illustration of how to turn what should have been a proud bipartisan moment for the House into a partisan action by Republican leaders. The…

Today we are taking the first step towards strengthening retirement security for all seniors and moving closer to putting Social Security on a firmer footing for the rest of the century. This time, we are doing it in a fiscally responsible…

it may seem to some people watching this debate today that we have heard it before. Last year, Republicans tried to sell their trillion dollar tax cut to the American people. They had town hall meetings. They had a road tour across America…

this Republican budget is a bad deal for America's families, and it is really when you think about it the worst of all worlds. It does not extend the life of Social Security by one day. It does not provide one penny for a Medicare…

this resolution is the equivalent of saying that we are going to quit smoking while we are lighting a cigarette, or saying we are going to quit drinking alcoholic beverages while we pour out a beer, or any other equivalent that you want to…

I rise today first to congratulate the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan) for their excellent across-the-aisle, bipartisan work in bringing about this legislation. I might say that I…

after 78 long days, the United States and its NATO allies have won a major victory over the forces of instability and inhumanity. Today, we are trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We have won the war. Serbian troops are…