Richard Gephardt

this Republican budget reminds me of a movie I saw a few years ago called ``Groundhog Day.'' In the movie, Bill Murray, who is the star, keeps reliving the same day over and over again. Everything happens to him the same way. This budget…

I rise to just hope that Members on both sides of the aisle will turn down this amendment. I realize that disarming the Soviet Union is the most important foreign policy objective we have. I think this amendment will make it harder to…

I urge a large bipartisan vote for this amendment. We have had burdensharing amendments in the past and I am afraid they have not gotten the result that all of us want. The progress that we have made in this area has been not enough in my…

I rise to recognize and welcome our new colleague, the gentleman from Maryland, Elijah Cummings. This young man was born and raised in the same city he now serves, the city of Baltimore. He knows the neighborhoods, the schools, the stores…

today, on the first anniversary of the tragedy that shook Oklahoma City and the entire Nation, I join with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in offering condolences to the friends and families of those who lost their…

in the few days since Ron Brown's death, it has already become a cliche to speak of his brilliant political career--of his pioneering role as party leader, and his efforts to almost single-handedly redefine the Commerce Department and its…

Members of the House, I urge my colleagues to vote against the previous question so that we can add an amendment to this bill that will increase the minimum wage. I simply want to say that wages, decent wages, are a family value. People…

let me explain why this is a question of privilege and why this Congress must act to extend the debt limit, with no threats or conditions, to preserve the integrity of this entire Government. Rule IX of this House states very clearly that…

let me explain why this is most certainly a question of privilege and why this Congress must finally reopen the Federal Government, with no threats or conditions, while we work to resolve the budget impasse that we are involved in. The…

I rise today to denounce this mindless and mean-spirited package of budget cuts and to urge every one of my colleagues to cast their vote against it. This appropriations bill is more than a handful of budget reductions to balance the…

I simply wanted to add my voice to the gentleman from New York in saying that we will miss Keith Jewell as the House photographer very much. I know that all of us have had experience in his work. He has served this House and its membership…

I rise today to make one simple fundamental point. We can do better than a budget that takes health care from the elderly to pay for tax breaks for the privileged few. I say to my colleagues, ``If you ask me, this budget is not just…

I rise tonight to ask Members to vote for this motion to recommit. I do it in a bipartisan way. We have always had a bipartisan foreign policy for this country. We have always tried to stop partisanship at the water's edge. And we have…

I thank the gentleman. I realize it is difficult to make everything come out on time, but I really believe that there was a great amount of anticipation and excitement among all Members when we talked about making the schedule more family…

I know the gentleman is doing everything that he can to bring this to a successful and swift conclusion. Just please know that there is a lot of, unhappiness maybe is too strong of a word, but deep concern and unhappiness, I am sure, on…

That is correct. As you know, in the Republican bill it got changed so that you did not look back every year to make sure you are on the road to a balanced budget. That is what you had in your amendment, and that is what is in this…

Let me sum up and say that this is a choice that we have to make tonight. Are we willing to give half of the tax cut to families who earn $100,000 a year or more, or are we willing to focus this tax cut at the hard-working, hard-pressed…

for weeks now, Americans have watched in astonishment as House Republicans have voted to ravage our most basic commitments to hard-working families: School lunch for children who would literally go hungry without it; heating assistance for…

I rise today to call my colleagues' attention to an important finding in last week's issue of Business Week. I am speaking of an economic reality which may be new to the business press in the United States--but has been plaguing millions…

I rise today in disappointment and sorrow that this bill which I think is terribly ill-advised will be passed by our House of Representatives. I have served in this House for 18 years and I have witnessed the fiercest debates on both…

this is the most important amendment in this whole block of crime bills that we are considering. As you consider it, I want to take you back in time a few months to the period when we were working on the crime bill, after we had lost the…

I know that Members on both sides are sincere about making this a family-friendly Congress, and we have a bipartisan group that is meeting to try to see if we can reach solutions in that area. A couple of times in the last 2 weeks we have…

There are two questions or concerns that are being expressed by a lot of Members on this side. The first is by Members on the west coast who have been afforded the opportunity in the past to get here by 5 o'clock on Monday, and if the…

The last question has to do with the corrections. I have read a report that there would be a corrections day, and I would just like to ask under what process would this legislation be considered, and would there be hearings and markups…

over these past 2 years, President Clinton and the Democratic Party have been fighting for a single fundamental goal: To raise the standard of living of America's working families. Everything else is secondary to that goal. And if you are…