Gene Taylor

That is a bad deal. That is a terrible deal for the taxpayer, and quite frankly, I believe something is rotten there.

I am hard over that the next generation of cruisers should be nuclear-powered for a lot of reasons.

It really does gripe me that when the Block 1 cruisers were retired at less than 20 years, that was a terrible waste of the taxpayers' resource.

This doesn't appear to be a very good business transaction for our nation.

I think everyone on this committee was very frustrated with the attitude taken under the previous Secretary of Defense (SECDEF).

I want to thank our acquisition folks for being here today. I think that the purpose of this is not just to educate a couple of Congressmen, but to let the moms and dads and loved ones of the people in uniform know what the military is…

I just want to applaud the conversion of my Republican colleagues. Six years ago the Nation was breaking even on an annual basis. They came to town with a new President and in the span of 3 years added $3 trillion to the national debt…

So if the State wished to have a ban for 12 miles from the shoreline or 12 miles out from the barrier islands, that would be within their jurisdiction under this bill?

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the hottest topic on the Mississippi gulf coast was a proposed ban on drilling 12 miles out, and that has kind of been put on hold. But anywhere from champions of industry who actually own shipyards that repair…

May I ask the Clerk to read the amendment? It is a very short amendment. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment shall be read. There was no objection. The Clerk read the amendment.

I had a tin roof on my house. There are pieces of my tin roof 20 to 30 feet up in trees behind where my house used to be, kind of wrapped around and sort of like a taco shell. When they came back with my claim and said there was no wind…

There ought to be a national registry of child molesters and insurance company executives. Because I hold them in the same very low esteem.

I had a tin roof on my house. There are pieces of my tin roof 20 to 30 feet up in trees behind where my house used to be, kind of wrapped around and sort of like a taco shell. When they came back with my claim and said there was no wind…

There ought to be a national registry of child molesters and insurance company executives. Because I hold them in the same very low esteem.

Given the gentleman's desire to see that we get to the bottom of this, given that the gentleman is elected by a majority of the people from California, and given that I am elected by a majority of people in the most affected area, does the…

Okay. I just want the gentleman to know that that 61 to 1 vote included that amendment.

I had to leave the room briefly. It was my understanding, when I left the room, that the gentleman had mentioned that the bill had passed committee 61 to 1. Is that correct?

Is the gentleman aware that when the bill passed the committee, the amendment that provided TRICARE for every single Guard member and Reservist was a part of that bill?

Mr. Speaker, my question to the gentleman concerns the change to the rules that would allow Members to use campaign funds to purchase cell phones. As you know, there is a law that prohibits a Member of Congress from using the resources of…

Again, my fear is this is an interpretation that we might actually be putting into law, and I hate to be doing that, and I do not think that is my colleague's intention as well.

If I may ask this question, is it the intent of this legislation to legalize cruises to nowhere?

If has been 804 days since the angels of debt, led by President Bush and the Republican majority in this House, embarked on the economic plan for our Nation. During that time the national debt has increased by $1,085,680,723,163. According…

When the gentleman walks down there and signs the discharge petition for the balanced budget amendment, I will yield to him all night long. Until then, if he does not believe in a balanced budget, do not come down here and tell me, gee, we…

I would like to speak with deep regret at the continued efforts of the majority to hide from the American people the true nature of the deficit that they have employed; that they have increased more debt in 2 years than in the first 200…