Roy Cooper

let me say amen to my friend's comments from Georgia. That was outstanding. I have the pleasure of serving on the Budget Committee and this week, probably on Thursday, we will start marking up the budget for the United States of America…

you know the 9/11 Commission did a great job in their report. It became a best seller. It was in bookstores all over America, because everybody in America wanted to find out what really happened on that terrible day. You know, this is a…

Over twice as large as the administration will admit. If the gentleman will yield for one more moment, the Director of Office of Management and Budget, Josh Bolton, says the deficit is only $319 billion; it is actually getting smaller, it…

if anyone needed evidence that this Congress is being managed in an incompetent and corrupt fashion, tonight's debate is it. At 2 o'clock in the morning we are finally taking up some of the most important defense bills of the year, only to…

You have made very powerful statements here tonight. One point that needs to be addressed a little bit more is the fact that we are going to be borrowing even more money from foreigners and the gentleman touched on that, particularly the…

the Blue Dog Coalition, of which I am policy co-chair, is going to vote against the budget reconciliation measures coming up this week. Why? Because after all the sound and fury, these measures will increase the Federal budget deficit, and…

I think most folks back home want us to get along with each other in order to strengthen our Nation. Well, how can we best do that, especially at a time of contentious budget reconciliation? There is a simple proposal called PAYGO that is…

I come here today to praise the men and women of the 118th Air Wing who fly out of Nashville, Tennessee. They have been mistreated by this BRAC process. I do not blame the BRAC Commission. I think the fault lies originally with the…

any day now, the United States of America will have borrowed over $8 trillion. That is not an occasion to celebrate. That is an occasion to be very worried about the future of our country. $8 trillion is a fantastic sum of money. To see…

I think the Rules Committee has made a terrible mistake here, and not the usual Rules Committee sort of mistake, because they have actually allowed to come to the floor a substitute that is so clearly superior to the AHP bill it is…

Sadly, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is exactly correct. In the little time we have remaining, let me make sure we finish the remaining Blue Dog points here. We have to admit that Congress likes to spend money on its own pet projects. It is…

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 is correct. Our balanced budget amendment would completely protect Social Security so it would not in any way be endangered by this. It would also require a three-fifths majority of this House in order to raise the debt…

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…

The gentleman asks an interesting question. I am on the Committee on the Budget, and we were only allowed 2 hours from first glance of the document, and this is a complex document, any document would be that spends $2.6 trillion, and 2…

the gentleman is focusing on the problem, and I think the American people are hungry for more facts, more real information about the situation we are in. I would like to encourage them to look on the Web site of an institution called the…

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

if Members are interested in finding a cure for Parkinson's disease, diabetes, cancer, and many other of the dread diseases that we face, please vote for this stem cell bill today and please vote for the cord blood bill today. They need to…

I join my fellow Blue Dog, the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Case), in speaking about the deficit and debt crisis that our Nation faces. He gave a lot of stunning numbers. Let me put it on a time line. What are the milestones that we are…

So to put the cookies on a low shelf, it took the first 204 years to do $1 trillion worth of damage to our Nation, and now the Republican majority is doing that every 18 months?

Numbers do not lie. I appreciate the gentleman yielding. So the total national debt now is about $7.7 trillion.

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…

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

$2.6 trillion, covering all of the priorities of this great Nation, the fact that we are at war, Social Security and Medicare, all domestic spending, cancer research, CDBG grants, everything is rolled up into it and no one has seen it…