Frank Pallone

I just want to give two faces to the people that you would deny this right. I had one woman come into my office from the former Soviet Union. She was in a country, it was a dictatorship at the time, she was Jewish, she could not even…

Mr. Speaker, as I look at my lapel and see the burqa cloth, I am reminded today that we pretty much stood with the Afghanistan women to say free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last. As I look at the burqa, I am…

I agree. I am going to sound very partisan, but both President Clinton and Vice President Gore were suggesting that there be a private pension system over and above Social Security. That is the only way we could actually accomplish this…

I know that the gentlewoman can be very hard hitting, and in some ways she is almost being nice about the Social Security commission. It is not only the hypocrisy in talking about using general revenues that do not exist any more, but also…

But what has happened to them, and I think a lot of people do not realize this, is that the nonprofits, I guess primarily the Red Cross, basically provided assistance for the victims' families for a 3-month period. That ended essentially…

I wanted to say that in the last couple of weeks before the holiday break... there is a tremendous amount of concern also, I think, by Americans, by the average American, about retirement security and whether Social Security, for example…

I appreciate his comments. I do not like to sound morbid, but as I started out tonight, people have died. We had 6,000 people die at the World Trade Center, many of them my constituents. It is just incredible to me to think that with all…

The gentlewoman points out so well that if this Senate bill was taken up here tomorrow, if it passed, if the Republican leadership did not do whatever they could to try to prevent it from passing, it would immediately be signed by the…

I am embarrassed when I have town meetings, and I have had a town meeting almost every weekend, and my district is about a half hour from Newark airport. I talk about aviation security, and they do not want to laugh, but some literally…

This evening I wanted to talk about the issue of aviation security in the aftermath of the tragedies of September 11... my constituents really have lost patience. They no longer believe that this House of Representatives is going to do…

I am here tonight with some of my Democratic colleagues because of my concern, and all of our concern, that the Republican leadership was determined today to ram through what they call an economic stimulus package, which in my opinion is…

Mr. Speaker, it is over 40 days since the tragic events on September 11, and yet this Republican leadership in the House is still blocking legislation dealing with aviation security. 40 days later, it is unbelievable. When I go home and…

I do not intend to use the full hour, but I need to spend a little time reiterating once again the negative impact of President Bush's tax cut, the tax cut that was supported by the majority of the Republicans, who are the majority here in…

I wanted to say that my real concern, of course, is that we never get a chance to vote on the Patients' Bill of Rights this week or even this year. We know that the leadership, the Republican leadership, has promised that the bill will…

I must say that it disturbs me a great deal to see some of the opponents of the real Patients' Bill of Rights... the Fletcher bill, which is in my opinion nothing but a fig leaf and which does not accomplish the goal of truly reforming…

If I could take my time back, I think that is real important, that people have to understand, even in Texas the majority of the people do not have the benefit of that Texas Patients' Bill of Rights.

I think all we are really trying to do is what is right for the average American. These health care issues are really crying out for a solution. It is not pie in the sky, it is real, day-to-day lives that people are living and it impacts…

Because they were told that if they have so many tests or if they have too many costs, then they are going to not be part of the plan and they will not be able to practice medicine essentially. It is very sad.

The gentlewoman is correct that so much money has been spent, and of course New Jersey does have a lot of the brand name drug companies. But if you talk to people on the street in my State, their attitude is not any different. They do not…

The problem with the block grant, if you use my State, you can write into this language that would not allow this, but there is the danger that you send the block grant to the State and they use the money to fund the program already there…

And the way the current law reads, and I do not think it was really intended that way, but it has been basically utilized in the wrong way, that once that presentation is made with this new patent, for 30 months the generic cannot come to…

They make essentially insignificant changes to the product, and they get a new patent just as the original patent is set to expire; and then they go on for years with essentially the same patent.

I am convinced and the only way to explain it is because of the administration's ties to big oil and their history. I am not going to go on forever about it, but I just wanted to mention that big oil give $3.2 million to the Bush campaign…

From all indications, the Bush-Cheney energy plan that has been developed in secret is basically pro-drilling, pro-nuclear, anti-consumer, and as the gentleman from Oregon has so well mentioned, anti-environment. I have had a number of my…

And in New Jersey we have the phenomenon whereas after Memorial Day, and I represent the shore area, everybody is going to be paying these higher prices when they have to travel to the shore or to the beaches. I know some might say that…