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so that no one listening to this debate is confused, this vote has nothing to do with DR-CAFTA, it has nothing to do with free trade, it is simply are we going to continue as part of the World Trade Organization. Mr. Speaker, I yield such…
I would remind the gentleman in the well that of the 50 cases we have brought before the World Trade Organization, we have won 46 which is a 92 percent success rate. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr…
my wife, Emilie, and I are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Congressman Bill Lehman. I will always remember his good sense of humor, his leadership and his unrivaled sense of duty. He had a reputation of having the courage and…
I want to introduce to my colleagues someone that they may already know, Ida May Fuller. Ida May was the recipient of the first Social Security check ever issued. In 1940, the year Ida May began collecting, Social Security was a dream come…
I say to the gentleman that he is absolutely right on target. It is not a question of can; it is a question of must. We must do this. And I would say from a very bipartisan way that if any of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle…
I would like to close with a couple of quotes. The first is I would like to quote President Clinton at Georgetown University on February 9 of 1998. This is an exact quote. He said, ``So that all of these achievements, the economic…
Yes, as sad as that is. There are some bright people on the other side of the aisle that could really help us get this thing done. When I did welfare reform back in 1996, we finally got some help from the other side and President Clinton…
However, you cannot judge a bill by what is not in it. You judge it by what is in it. You cannot win a ball game by designing each play for a touchdown. You move the ball down the field. This is just one piece of legislation, a very…
Florida is bleeding. It is bleeding. We have had tremendous damage all throughout the State. Four hurricanes in one year. There is nobody in this House, there is nobody alive today that can remember the tremendous suffering that one State…
we are coming again to a crossroads, and why it is that we cannot move this bill ahead in an orderly fashion instead of bits and pieces and jumping all around absolutely escapes me. The bill that my colleague from California has crafted…
Mr. Speaker, I hear my friend from New York talking about deficits. There is one deficit that he did not talk about, and that is family deficits, the deficit where so many families are struggling and trying to do the right thing, go to…
Mr. Chairman, the Social Security so-called totalization agreements permit the United States and another country to coordinate their Social Security programs. The Social Security Administration has totalization agreements in force with 20…
When a disaster happens in America, we are not Democrats and Republicans, we are Americans, and we care about each other. We suffer with each other, we cry with each other, and we pray with each other. I was taken by a photograph which was…
Ambassador Joe Wilson's cover has been blown. He has proclaimed to be a truth-teller, but he has been thoroughly discredited. You may recall, Mr. Speaker, that Ambassador Wilson said President Bush was lying when in the State of the Union…
I rise again today to protest the unfair allocation of urban area security funding by the city of Miami. Miami is unfairly withholding the essential funds that my district needs to improve antiterrorism measures. The city of Miami wants to…
I rise in protest once again in regard to the unfair allocation of Urban Area Security Initiative grants from the Department of Homeland Security by the city of Miami. Broward County in my district has not received nearly enough, not…
I rise today to protest the unfair practice by the City of Miami, Florida, in allocating Federal urban area security money to Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties. Under the current definition, Broward and Palm Beach and Monroe are…
I would have to revise the memory of the other side. We wanted to work with the Democrats all through this process of writing this bill. The gentleman from Michigan was very much involved in that at that time. They chose not to. In…
What is it the gentleman has a problem with? And then be very specific. We put $4 billion additional in child care. I know he is for that. We have full TANF funding for the next 5 years. He should be in favor of that. Supplemental grants…
In 1996, this House embarked, I think, upon a huge social experiment. We, for the first time in decades, had changed the way or moved away, from the policy of rewarding people not to work, to have kids and not to marry. We changed the…
I can see both sides of pay-go, but I cannot see both sides of delegating legislative authority to the executive branch no matter who controls the executive branch.
I would have to remind the gentleman that his party was running the Congress for decades before that. There is not one dollar that this government spends that is not directly appropriated or approved by this House, right here, where…
reclaiming my time, I do not believe that the pay-go is looking towards the Office of Management and Budget as having to certify things before we do it.
today I rise to honor one of south Florida's most beloved treasures and one of our Nation's most outspoken advocates on behalf of higher education, Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, retiring President of Barry University. When Sister Jeanne became…
I agree with him more than I disagree with him. I think he puts a nice positive spin on the closing side on the minority side. Yes, we are not doing enough, but I think now every 2 years we go through this. This bill which this body is…
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