Frank Pallone

As introduced, both the Bush administration and Democrats on the Resources Committee had serious concerns with several provisions of this legislation. However, important improvements were made to the bill during consideration by the…

We on this side of the aisle have no objection to the passage of H.R. 3897. The majority has adequately explained this legislation, and I would simply note that the groundwater development project that would be authorized by the enactment…

We have no objection to passage of H.R. 2563. This legislation gives the Bureau of Reclamation the authority to conduct specific feasibility studies to look at projects that might address the water shortages in the Snake, Boise, and…

We on this side of the aisle support passage of H.R. 122. The majority has adequately explained this legislation, and I would simply note that the pending measure would enable the Eastern Municipal Water District to make improvements to…

The thing that is amazing, I know you were sort of hinting at the holiday analogy there, I cannot help, this is the 2 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or Hanukkah, too. I cannot help thinking of the analogy. I try not to…

The budget bill that they want us to vote on, the one we were supposed to vote on last week, cuts funding for levees again, not necessarily the one in New Orleans, but other levees in Louisiana. This is part of the funding cuts. They want…

I thank everybody for joining us tonight for a very important Special Order. ____________________

The gentleman mentioned before Medicaid. Medicaid is a matching program, 50 percent Federal, 50 percent State. So if the States do not get the 50 percent from the Federal Government, they have to make it up themselves or drop the people…

Okay, Mr. Speaker. Shortly after the majority leader stepped down, Time Magazine's Jonathan Alter wrote about the majority leader's tenure as majority leader and how the Republican majority leads this House. Alter recalls his first visit…

There was an editorial in the New York Times on September 26 about faking the Katrina inquiry. The last paragraph, if I could just read it, said this. It says, There is no way to whitewash a hurricane. A government dominated by one party…

I want you to know that one way to deal with the age problem is to hang out with the younger people so I feel younger.

I know that when we heard about Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, and everybody knows how incompetent he was and what he did in the aftermath of the hurricane, basically did nothing, made things even worse, I think people initially thought…

Immediate action should have been taken on chemical plant security after the wake-up call we got from the 9/11 attacks. I have introduced the Chemical Security Act in the past two Congresses, but the House has never considered my…

I think it is just an excuse. I think they are using the judicial nominees and ultimately we will see it for everything else. There is no reason to make the distinction. I would argue there is a stronger case for judicial nominees because…

Now, according to Congress Daily and several other sources, in fact the Republican conference today did agree by voice vote to overturn this GOP rule, which would mean that it is no longer the case that House leaders, whether it be the…

President Bush brags about how consistent he has been in his policy on Iraq. Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, the President has been consistently wrong. President Bush was wrong about weapons of mass destruction. He was wrong about any…

I will just read this one section from this report, and then I will yield back to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown). Again, this is the GAO, the Government Accounting Office, nonpartisan; this is not Democrat or Republicans saying this…

This Medicare Part B premium is five times the 17.4 percent increase, at least, of what their Social Security COLA would go up to.

Well, I do not understand the whole phenomena. Somehow, in some Republican minds, and I am not saying all of them, because I know there are some that do not agree, but certainly the majority and the leadership seem to think that somehow…

Clearly, No Child Left Behind is the biggest unfunded mandate that ever existed around this place. The gentlewoman is absolutely right. We do not hear anything about that now because they just want to talk about how wonderful the program…

There was a strong suspicion that AARP was looking to sell this Medicare prescription drug policy, and again it is an example of corporate interests holding sway around here because somebody is trying to make a buck.

They told him they were going to deny his son the nomination to replace him if he did not change his vote. I mean, this is the kind of thing that was going on. When you talk about procedure, I totally agree with you. They control the…

One of the biggest criticisms I had was that in 1994 when Republicans took the majority and Gingrich became Speaker, was that they got rid of the select committees, including the aging committee which I served on.

And also they continue to deny the reality. I mean, after the CIA report came out, it was either today or yesterday, that the President, President Bush was out there saying that the war has resulted in the U.S. being in less danger of…

We have read those stories. Can we think of any explanation for why the vice president would say that he has no contact with this in the face of that e-mail?