W. Todd Akin

On rollcall No. 601 and 602, I was delayed and unable to vote. Had I been present I would have voted ``aye'' on both. ____________________

On rollcall No. 600, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

The lady before me said it so eloquently and so simply: Why do we want to spend a whole lot of money? We're already in a crisis now. Huge debates about how are we going to control Federal spending. And here we find this proposal to drop…

No, I don't yield. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri controls the time.

As the chairman of the Seapower Subcommittee, we have taken a good look at LHA-7, and this is an absolutely essential ship. Nobody is arguing that point. It is a large deck amphib assault. What has happened, though, is that the Marine…

The basic point is that the fact that this is going to save $310 million is not true. What this in fact is going to do is to force a solution that will be more expensive for the government and not very good for the employees down at…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have to say that I understand the importance of trying to control spending in this government, and I am very much thankful to the gentleman from Arizona to be wanting to do that. The concern that we have is that…

The point of the matter is that LHA-7 has to go forward, and we have to make sure that we have the funding. As soon as the negotiations are finished between the Navy and the contractor, then we can move ahead on this project. So the $150…

The question involves the Avondale shipyard-- which used to be Northrop Grumman, it is now a part of Huntington--and there are essentially three possibilities of what might happen to the shipyard. One possibility is that we leave the…

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are going to talk for a little while here this afternoon about a subject that is on, I think, everybody's minds regardless of their political affiliations. The more we look at it, the more significant it seems to…

It goes without saying we have the finest, most professional combat-honed sailors, marines, airmen and soldiers that any modern military has ever had within its ranks.

The feared is because of the people who want to whitewash what was going on with that big oil spill and the fact that you got on it and told people the truth; and I respect that. Thank you, sir.

You see the point of the matter is is there are people who are dependent upon these programs, older people. They are going to be in trouble if the wheels fall off this thing. So what we need to do is craft a solution that allows the older…

Good for you. Anyway, May of 2003 we cut three taxes, not popular, because everybody, oh, the Democrats, that's all rich-guy stuff. It was capital gains, dividends, and death tax. Now, I don't know if you're a rich guy if you're dead, but…

So the tax cuts go into effect same place here, this line, this is the GDP, this is actually losing GDP or gaining; you can see the average here is about 1.1 percent; but after those tax cuts, it jumps to 3.5. You can see these are a lot…

If I could piggy-back in and jump to what you're saying. A couple of weeks ago, we had basically a budget on the floor of the House. But the budget, interestingly enough, is what's called the discretionary side. So the budget was for this…

If we can do those, that's going to help. So the first thing is we've got to cut taxes, but we tremendously have to cut the overhead. And the thing here, and I think the public is becoming aware of this fact, we can't make it by cutting…

The reason I say that is because we have been through, as Americans, a lot of dicey situations. Our own parents, known as the Greatest Generation, as they would say it, did their bit. My father was with Patton in Europe, and they fought…

And the main thing that's wrong is, as Ronald Reagan said, we're buying too much government.

Now wait just a minute. Just on the surface of what you're saying, if somebody were really to listen to what you're saying, it sounds like insanity. Because here's what my thinking would be: You're saying that we've got all this unrest in…

It's America on the move again. It's individual citizens taking risks, going out there working hard, making a good living; and then because of the things they've done, other people get better jobs and they make a better living, and…

So here we are again. Because I started just a little while ago, we talked about if you want to kill jobs, first of all tax small businesses, tax them so much they can't run their business, or at least chase people out of them so there…

I have to wonder, particularly of the people out in my State of Missouri, what they'll be thinking when they find out that $3 million of their money is being used to come up with a program to take care of spilled milk. I don't know how you…

If I were to say that the Republicans and Democrats in the House are divided on the abortion issue, people would go, Well, no big surprise. What I think's interesting is if you look back over the years, at least the 10 years I've been…