Deborah Koff Ross

I rise today to help commemorate an event in our Nation's history that we can all join together in celebrating. With the stroke of a pen in 1803, President Jefferson doubled America in size, making us one of the largest Nations in the…

it has been 860 days since President Bush and the Republican party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time, the national debt has increased by $1,167,994,451,600.72. According to the Web site for the Bureau of the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sandlin), a fellow Blue Dog, a good member of the Blue Dog Coalition and someone that I think will help us and hopefully help the gentleman from Arizona understand why he…

I do not understand what the problem is. Why is he arguing against this when the House has already passed this motion to instruct? The President says he likes it. In fact, the President's press secretary, White House Press Secretary Ari…

Mr. Speaker, tonight I am offering a motion to instruct conferees on the child tax credit. As Congress considered H.R. 2, the Jobs and Growth Tax Reconciliation Act, at a cost of more than $300 billion, one important provision was omitted…

As the owner of a small-town family pharmacy, I got sick and tired of seeing seniors who could not afford their medicine or could not afford to take it properly. That is why back in 2000 I decided to run for the United States House of…

We have one mission as a coalition, and that mission is to promote fiscal discipline, fiscal responsibility, and to bring common sense to our Nation and its budget process. This country is $6 trillion in debt; and under President Bush's…

Well, let me say that this is not a partisan issue for me. I was one of those who supported President Bush's tax cut about a year ago. I just think now is not the time for additional tax cuts, not at a time when we are asking our men and…

Back in the year 2000, there was an election and everyone talked about the need to truly modernize Medicare to include medicine for our seniors. Two years went by and nothing happened. Then we had another election in the year 2002…

last night, our President explained very clearly that Saddam Hussein is a malicious tyrant with weapons of mass destruction and the ability to use them. He has ignored U.N. resolutions more than a dozen times. He has supported terrorism…

Mr. Speaker, September 11, 2001, is a day that none of us will ever forget. I was sitting in my office across from our Nation's Capitol, and from the window in my office, I literally saw smoke rise from the Pentagon. A few hours later, I…

I am here tonight to rise in support of seniors all across Arkansas' Fourth Congressional District and seniors all across America who will continue once again tonight to go to bed unable to either afford their medicine or afford to take it…

I do rise in opposition, strong opposition, to this bill. Just a few months ago, I was in Glenwood, Arkansas, a small town in my district, and ran into an elderly woman who is a retired pharmacist and who just happened to be a relief…

for the next hour I plan to visit with the Members of the United States House of Representatives, and other Members will be joining me throughout this hour, to talk about the need to truly modernize Medicare, to include medicine for our…

maybe we can visit a little bit about this, because it is so important. I want to make sure we use every second of every minute that is afforded to us to visit here in the United States House of Representatives about an issue that…

I can put faces to these stories in my own mind as I relay them today of seniors who would come into the pharmacy, who were literally forced to choose between buying their medicine, buying their groceries, paying their rent, paying their…

I have begged, I have pleaded, I have scratched, I have crawled to try and get a hearing on my first bill, H.R. 3626. I could not get a hearing on that. Now I am pleased to be one of four of the original lead sponsors on this new plan…

I would just close by simply encouraging my colleagues to go back home to their districts this weekend, stop by as many local pharmacies as my colleagues want to, chain pharmacies, any kind of pharmacy they want to go to, does not matter…

I wrote a bill. It is H.R. 3626. It is a bill that will truly modernize Medicare to include medicine for our seniors. In that bill we hold the big drug manufacturers accountable. In that bill we demand the same kind of rebates from the big…

I am not a pharmacist, a lot of people make that mistake, and I thank the gentleman for the compliment. But my wife is a pharmacist, and together we own a small town family pharmacy in my hometown of Prescott, Arkansas, my hometown of…

We are a group of 33 fiscally conservative Democrats that believe we ought to get our government, its budget, and our debt under control. We are a group that is sick and tired of all the partisan bickering that goes on at our Nation's…

let me begin by saying this is not a partisan issue for me. I was one of 28 Democrats to stand with our President and vote for the largest tax cut in some 20 years. This tax cut does not sunset for 10 years. We all knew that when we voted…

I am proud to be a conservative, small-town-value kind of Democrat that is standing before the gentleman today, and I am appalled that for some reason a Member of the House has some control over what happens in a Senate conference…

Mr. Speaker, I would simply close in support of the bill by saying that this weekend I was driving across my congressional district, as I do every weekend, some 75,000 miles we traveled across those 29 counties over the past 16 months…

Adverse medical effects caused by patients misusing or not taking their medicine costs our health care system an estimated $170 billion every year. Tragically, much of this cost results from seniors simply not being able to afford to buy…