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

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.

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…

If you were to look back 400 or 500 years, to the nations that our forefathers left, many of them in Europe, a common practice then was that children would inherit the debts of their parents. If they did not have the money to repay those…

Mr. Speaker, last night, yesterday in Iraq 7 brave young Americans died. This is the committee that makes the decisions to arm those people, to pay those people, take care of their families, and to take care of their injuries when they get…

Mr. Chairman, I find it a bit inconsistent. This is the same body that voted for NAFTA, that sent tens of thousands of American jobs to Mexico, the same body that voted for permanent normal trade relations with the Communist Chinese. In…

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

For the sake of the folks who do not know it, I am pleased to mention that the full committee chairman owns his own commercial license as a tugboat captain, so I think he will appreciate this question. In reading the synopsis, it says the…

Second question, again coming from the synopsis, and I know it is not perfect, but it says the bill would authorize two U.S.-built, -owned and -flagged vessels to enter into the U.S. coastwise trades. My question is, it has been highly…

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 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…

if only what the previous speaker said were true. If only he really cared about a balanced budget. There is an amendment that would require Congress to spend no more money than it collects in taxes, and it has been languishing in this…

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…

I know that most Americans are at work right now. Some of you are watching. If you care about your country, you have got to be upset that in almost a little over 2 years almost $1 trillion has been added to the national debt. To make a…

To the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston), if I had voted to stick these children with that bill, I would be as ashamed to look at their faces as the gentleman is. I did not vote to stick these kids with that bill.

Dear Dad: My day began when a guy who was taking a thousand-dollar contribution from an alleged Chinese spy decided that I could not offer an amendment to keep American military bases open. Later on this same guy who took a thousand-dollar…