Jun 25, 2003
many of us will vote for House Resolution 294 because we indeed deplore the terrorist attacks inflicted on Israel. We wish to express solidarity with the people of Israel. And we understand the necessity of the Palestinian Authority…
David Price
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David E. Price is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving North Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1997 until 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Price was known for his work on issues related to education, transportation, and housing. He played a significant role in various legislative efforts, including those aimed at improving public education and expanding access to affordable housing. Price also served on the House Appropriations Committee, where he influenced federal funding allocations for his state and district.
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May 8, 2003
And the Democratic plan, $44 billion, it is temporary, it stimulates the economy, it helps bail the States out. It will help avoid counterproductive things at the State level, cutting back services, raising taxes. What good is it going to…
May 8, 2003
What about our Republican colleagues in the House? They are supposedly in closer touch with these local communities. Does their bill contain one dime of help for the States? Mr. McDERMOTT. No, not a single dime.
May 8, 2003
Are you saying that the amount that it would take to make Social Security whole for the next 75 years is less than the amount of this Republican tax cut?
May 8, 2003
Why on Earth would our Republican friends want to do such a thing? It clearly is something that they do not intend to stick by. They do not really intend for these tax cuts to expire. Why would they write such a bill?
May 8, 2003
Sure and that is what we need to face. If you are going to have tax cuts then, for goodness sake, have the honesty and the integrity to pay for those tax cuts so it is not coming out of the hide of the most vulnerable among us. There are…
May 8, 2003
But what I really am fearful of is that the proposal the gentleman is putting out here tonight will not be allowed into the discussion tomorrow, except in a very abbreviated form. I think that is unfortunate, because I think the American…
May 8, 2003
The strongest economy and the most sustained recovery. We even reached the point where we were running a surplus, not just a Social Security surplus, but a surplus in the general fund of this government. We retired $400 billion worth of…
May 8, 2003
Mr. Speaker, I do not think the American people understand, and the gentleman is down in Chapel Hill and he knows the pressure that is on the hospitals; it is the same in Chicago or Richmond or Seattle or New York or anywhere. What we are…
May 8, 2003
I thank the gentleman and I particularly appreciate his focus on the plight of the States. My colleagues may recall that the governors were in town a few weeks ago, Democratic and Republican governors who went to the White House, I…
Apr 30, 2003
If you extended emergency Federal unemployment benefits, for example, for every dollar that you use for that purpose you get $1.73 of economic stimulus, because these folks are going to use that extra money for the necessities of life and…
Apr 30, 2003
The situation the gentleman is describing reminds one of the old saying: if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging.
Apr 30, 2003
If we look back at previous Republican administrations, what is striking is that when they found themselves at a certain point in a deep enough hole, they did stop digging. In the Reagan administration in 1982 under Senator Robert Dole's…
Apr 7, 2003
On the contrary, I do not know of any economist who believes that the tax cuts this administration is proposing would have a stimulative effect on this economy. These are tax cuts that would exempt dividends from taxation and rate cuts…
Apr 7, 2003
Congressman, what we need at the Veterans Administration is an increase, not a decrease.
Apr 7, 2003
The Republican budget takes us over the cliff fiscally, with $2 trillion being added to the publicly held debt over the next 5 years, by 2008. At the same time there are deep cuts in basic domestic obligations and priorities that we simply…
Apr 7, 2003
Our colleague, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee), indeed does have a veterans hospital in her district. So she is well-acquainted with the good work that they do in these facilities and also what these cuts might mean.
Apr 7, 2003
It was the Democratic budget that made the needed adjustments in veterans health care and other funding to meet the need. The President's budget fell far short of that. The veterans organizations made the case for much more adequate…
Apr 7, 2003
let me just read what the national commander of the Disabled American Veterans says about that very subject. He says it better than I could. ``Has Congress no shame?'' he said a couple of weeks ago when this Republican budget was before…
Mar 11, 2003
Mr. Speaker, there is a good possibility that our country will be at war in Iraq before the month is out. The President held out little hope for any alternative approach to disarming Iraq at his press conference last Thursday. Yet a…
Feb 27, 2003
since the House last considered a ban on cloning, the National Academy of Sciences and the President's Council on Bioethics have both issued reports on the ethical and social questions raised by cloning. H.R. 534 does not reflect the…
Feb 26, 2003
I appreciate the recollection of the President's quote about not passing along problems to future generations. We had a little more candid quote from the director of OMB the other day, Mr. Daniels, who said, ``We have returned to an era of…
Feb 26, 2003
I especially appreciate the gentleman's pointing out the plight of the States and the tongue-in-cheek advice to how the States might improve their situation. Of course we had the Governors here in Washington this week, the Governors from…
Feb 26, 2003
of course there has been a good deal of help promised in the homeland security area, particularly for upfitting and getting better equipment, better communications capacity for first responders, for fire and emergency medical and police…
Feb 26, 2003
I and a number of colleagues wish to address this body and the American people this evening on our country's fiscal situation and the decisions facing Congress as we propose a budget for the 2004 fiscal year. We speak with some urgency…
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