Roy Cooper

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

This is called The Financial Report of the United States Government. It is an official U.S. Government document. You can get it on the Web if you go to the U.S. Treasury Web site. It has an introductory letter by the Secretary of Treasury…

I disapprove of the President's January 10 decision to surge 20,000 new troops into Iraq. I urge my colleagues to support the resolution. Mr. Speaker, although the President says that the 20,000 new troops constitute a change in his…

I would like to lend my voice and praise of the African American spiritual and a group that I consider to be the leading practitioners of today and for the last 135 years, namely the Fisk Jubilee Singers. As the Representative from…

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…

the Iraq Study Group has completed its work. Now it is available for all Americans to read. I would urge everyone to pick up a copy. It is only 96 pages. It contains 79 recommendations, and it is a vitally important tool to inform the…

we are in the final hours of this Congress. How will historians judge our work? Very harshly. There has probably not been a more incompetent or corrupt Congress in modern times than this one. Don't take my word for it. Look at the book…

earlier today, I was speaking at an event being held in the basement of the Rayburn building and because the clock and bell system did not work in Room B-338, I missed two votes on amendments to H.R. 2965, the Federal Prison Industries…

I thank my friends Arkansas and Georgia. Another Blue Dog proposal for reform that is extremely important, because it would do a lot to fix our entire fiscal situation, to get our budget balanced again, and that proposal goes by the name…

virtually every family in America has been stricken with one dread disease or another. It may be cancer, it may be heart disease, it may be diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's. The list goes on and on. And finally, there are scientific…

Thank you. I thank my good friend from Arkansas, and I appreciate your excellent summary of our fiscal situation. Because Americans lead busy lives, we were happy to get a little bit of good news last week, or what we thought was good…

we are, like all Americans, acutely aware of the terrible tragedy that happened on September 11, 2001. That changed the world, but we should not make the mistake of thinking that it gave us all these deficits because that claim, that…

Today's news revealed that that bait-and-switch provision that was in the Medicare drug bill would add $2 billion in additional profits to our drug companies this year. {time} 2015 Two billion, billion with a B as in boy, and that is all…

in the vain hope that there still is an undecided Member of this body, I think it is important that we look at the facts. I would encourage my colleagues to oppose both the rule on the line item veto and on the estate tax. Why? I am afraid…

I rise tonight as a Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee to try to place the upcoming debate we will have tomorrow on the Iraqi war resolution into context. It is very important that people realize that we do not get to…

my colleague from New Jersey who just spoke is exactly right. This Congress, this year, this House of Representatives will probably meet fewer days, fewer hours than any Congress since 1948. President Harry Truman called that Congress the…

I speak tonight as a cochair of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally conservative Democrats, and I speak tonight with some disappointment because I am one in this Chamber who knows how hard it is to put together a budget. It is a…

we have heard a lot of problems mentioned on the House floor today. We should be aware that this House is doing a very poor job of addressing any of these problems. Why? Because this is one of the laziest Congresses in all of American…

That is exactly right. Modern accounting is required of all businesses in America with revenues over $5 million. That basically says any business larger than, say, a single McDonald's would be required to use modern accrual accounting. And…

I thank the Chair. I yield now 3 minutes to my friend and colleague and fellow Blue Dog, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ford). The CHAIRMAN. A Member who does not control time, but who only is yielded time for debate, is free to yield…

in the time remaining, I am a Blue Dog, I am cochair of the Blue Dogs. Every Blue Dog has a sign outside his or her office that lists the debt, $8.3 trillion, and each American's share of that debt. It is very important that all Americans…

I thank my friend, Mr. Bishop; my friend, Mr. Keller; and also Mr. Porter. This is a truly bipartisan resolution. As has been explained, it expresses the sense of the Congress of the United States that music should be a key part of the…

I have never made a speech like this before. I am cosponsor of this bill. I think like a businessman, because our companies do need uniformity and simplicity. But I am outraged that a bill like this would come through the House of…

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.

This is real accounting, and people back home need to know that for every working family, it is a $375,000 obligation already. So what the gentleman is talking about, this $27,000, that is the price of a pretty nice car. This is the price…