Roy Cooper

I rise today to ask for my colleagues' support of a resolution that I have introduced to honor the memory of one of America's greatest musical heroes, Johnny Cash. The music of Johnny Cash has literally touched the lives of millions of…

We are not trying to stop enforcement of EITC. We are trying to do it in a fair and balanced way so that the IRS can go after where the big money is as well as where the small money is. And the gentleman is unfair as well because it is not…

I would hope that the listeners could see through the rather emphatic rhetoric of my good friend from Pennsylvania, because may I remind him that the conference committee has not even bothered to meet on this issue. The Senate is…

Tonight we are about to have an hour of debate on whether, in fact, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are the compassionate conservatives that they claim to be. Is there any compassion in their bones? We are not debating…

Mr. Chairman, if it is just a little bit of paperwork, if it is not much hassle, if it is easy to comply with precertification, then I would suggest that the gentleman from Oklahoma in the next Congress apply the same rulings and…

I think the gentleman really thinks a more explicit amendment would have been subject to a point of order, which is exactly what the gentleman from Oklahoma would have preferred. Second point, picking on poor people. If my colleague is…

because of a very small group of Republican leaders, they are preventing this House from helping 12 million poor children around America. I would like to give my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the rank-and-file Republicans, the…

this was a very important week in the House of Representatives. Hopefully we learned a lesson of bipartisan cooperation last night with the historic victory on the drug reimportation bill; and hopefully we also learned the dangers of…

today is the day that our seniors have been waiting for for many, many years, the day that we will pass a Medicare prescription drug benefit. Unfortunately, the real debate took place last night upstairs in an attic room in this building…

My impression is that most Members of this Congress, most folks back home are probably finishing up their supper, tired after the long day at work; if they are tuned in to C-SPAN, all of them are wondering where is the straight talk about…

Let me make sure I heard this right. In the short run, the Democratic bill would have been twice as stimulative as the Republican bill, $130 billion versus $60 billion, and in the long run we would not have had any of the deficit hangover…

the Democratic proposal would have stimulated consumer demand with the rebate program and business investment with the depreciation incentives.

it is hard to imagine a starker policy contrast than the one that you are exhibiting right there to show that we were drowning in red ink until 1991, and then we climb up to the surface and can breathe again, and now we are drowning one…

And that is the worst job creation performance of any President since 50 years ago and Harry Truman?

The gentleman mentioned a Democratic stimulus package, and if he could elaborate on that, because it is my understanding that the Bush tax cut plan actually has very little stimulus in the short term for our economy, whereas the plan that…

the sort of checks that Americans are interested in hearing about are not the check clearing system technicality but the checks they receive as a result of their hard work or as a result of tax refunds. This July most all Americans with…

2 weeks ago this House made a terrible mistake in the tax cut bill, partly because that bill was rammed through this House under the so-called marshal law rule, with minimal notice or debate. Some 12 million American children who need the…

this is the amendment that was banned in Washington. This is the amendment that Republican leadership does not want us to vote on. Why? They are afraid Members will like it. They are afraid it will pass. They are afraid that the real…

Last night, in this great Capitol building, about 10 p.m., the Committee on Rules was meeting. Our friends on the other side of the aisle had just come back from their lavish dinner at which the newspapers report they raised some $22…

I am an unlikely radical. I called for a motion to adjourn today, that disrupted normal House business, in order to highlight one of the smelliest pieces of legislation in recent memory. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, and this bill…

I, like most Americans, am strongly opposed to human cloning. It is wrong to try to duplicate human beings. But it is important, as we ban human cloning, that we do not prevent legitimate scientific research into life-saving therapies that…

It was a very close vote. As I recall, it was by a one-vote margin the Clinton budget was passed.

The gentleman is so correct. And a huge deficit like that hurts our economy. It creates higher interest rates. It hurts the employment statistics. And as I think most of the world knows, under the Clinton years we had the most robust…

As I recall, the gentleman has already said these are about to be the largest deficits in history. Is that conservative?

I think many patriotic Americans wonder what those moments are in American history when we really do reach a turning point; and to be honest with you, in all the congressional debates there are very few real turning points. But I would…