Roy Cooper

A further unanimous consent request. I would like to yield half of my time, 7\1/2\ minutes, to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. LaTourette). The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Ohio will control that time. There was no…

I would like to make a unanimous consent request. I believe that we've agreed to divide the time in a different way. I would like to yield to the gentleman, my friend from Wisconsin.

I believe she is well qualified to handle the daily challenges of being a Federal judge and look forward to working for her confirmation.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is an honor to recognize the Reverend Raymond Bowman today, who just gave the opening prayer. Seldom has Congress been more in need of prayer than we are today. Rev. Bowman was raised in Chicago. He came to…

I thank my colleagues. I appreciate their bipartisan effort on this important memorial resolution to honor Tennessee's historic role in making ratification of the Amendment possible. I want to point out that the State of Tennessee played…

The OCC took 50 sheriffs off the job during the time the mortgage lending industry was becoming the Wild West.

There is no reason to make this debate more complicated than it is. It all revolves around a very simple but vitally important principle: whether the United States Government pays its bills. We think that it should. The principle is called…

I speak as a Blue Dog Democrat, and I'm proud to see progressives and Blue Dogs, Democrats and Republicans coming together on this important good government cause. We've been working on it for 4 years now, and now it's about to pass. We're…

If there has ever been a good government measure, this is it. There are some 58 IGs scattered throughout the Federal Government. They are the fiscal watchdogs for the taxpayer. They are the first line of defense against fraud, waste and…

I suggest the time is now, because there are literally billions of dollars of corporate welfare we can and must be saving starting tonight. These 16 companies, there are only 16 companies, made $2.8 billion, at taxpayer expense, profit in…

Based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness, we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges.

The Durham district attorney pushed forward unchecked. There were many points in this case where caution would have served justice better than bravado.

We believe that these cases were the result of a tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations.

We were privileged today to have deliver our opening prayer the Reverend Kenn Hucks from Lebanon, Tennessee, Immanuel Baptist Church, formerly in Bart Gordon's district, and now in my district. We are also privileged to have his beautiful…

Which is illegal for most every business in America. Mr. Ross. Yet our very government, which uses a cash-base form of accounting, requires every business in America for the most part to use an accrual base of accounting.

They would be pretty much out of business if they were a public company in this country, and they are all large enough to be giant public companies. And the Federal Government simply cannot find $24 billion. They do not know where it went…

That was some 3 weeks ago we had the budget resolution. They rammed it through here in 2 hours.

We have heard their excuses for too long. So this would freeze them until they learned how to behave and learned how to count the money they are entrusted with. Another key element of the plan is that Congress has to tell taxpayers back…

The gentleman mentioned earlier that in early 2006 they will be asking for another increase in the debt ceiling, perhaps even 2005.

One thing we know will go up is interest expense on the national debt because the deficits are the largest in American history. It is getting harder and harder to blame 9/11 for that because they have produced the largest deficits in…

All the experts, including Chairman Greenspan of the Federal Reserve, say right now under these Republican budgets we are clearly on an unsustainable path, a literal road to ruin for our Nation. And the head of the GAO, the Government…

Well, unbelievable cuts are in this and unbelievable aid to countries like Iraq. It is really a crazy set of priorities and unbelievable tax cuts.

I think it is important to return to the fact that we are going to be voting tomorrow on the budget for the United States of America, and it is a budget that no one has seen yet. They only appointed the conferees yesterday.

The gentleman mentioned we certainly do not want to inflate the currency, but the dollar today is weaker than it has been in some time, the dollar vis-a-vis foreign currencies. If an American travels abroad and pays in dollars, you…

So almost half the mortgage on America is owned by foreigners, and they have been kind to lend us that money, but they could change their minds and stop lending us money at almost any time? Because we sell Treasury bonds, notes, other…