Frank Pallone

What we are hearing is Republican tax breaks are going to big business, special interests, wealthy families and all at the same time limiting tax cuts for education and families with children. It is just incredible.

We have a statistic here that just shows you that the billionaire, Bill Gates, would get capital gains and estate tax reductions and even a new IRA provision that would let him take a $4,000 tax break for educational expenses for his kids…

Absolutely. The gentlewoman pointed out, we were only talking about Federal taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes. That Georgia policeman is probably paying property taxes. He may be paying other State or local taxes. They are saying he is on…

I would add also, Mr. Speaker, that Senator Lott in his Republican plan early this year, just like the Contract With America, also promised that child credit to that Georgia policeman. So now all of a sudden the Republican leadership has…

It says that tax plans, the child credit, the child credit under the Republican plan would exclude 53 to 56 percent of the children in New York State; 3,183,357 New York kids will be ineligible under the House plan for the child tax…

I just received a letter today from the president of Rutgers University, which is the State university in New Jersey, the major university in the State and the main campus of which is in New Brunswick in my district, and the president, the…

That cannot be. We just have to keep pointing it out every day on the floor, as we are doing now, and hopefully ultimately our colleagues will listen and understand why the Democratic alternative is better.

I want to stress that the resolution states the U.S. reaffirms its neutrality in the conflict. What we have purposely done here is to craft language that would avoid the underlying issue of territorial integrity versus self-determination…

At the end of title XVII (relating to foreign policy provisions) insert the following new section: SEC. 1717. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE NAGORNO-KARABAGH CONFLICT. (a) Sense of Congress--It is the sense of Congress that (1) the United…

However, as a Democrat I am very concerned about the need for this budget to reflect Democratic priorities. Over the last year, at least since June of 1996, the Democrats have outlined a Family First agenda that includes prioritization, if…

Today the Medicare trustees will release the latest numbers on Medicare's impending insolvency. The Republicans are in the majority, so what is their solution? Instead of passing legislation to fix the trust fund, they have wasted the last…

I know that I was at the international relations subcommittee, one of the subcommittee hearings that the gentleman was a member of when we talked about trying to provide some assistance to Nagorno-Karabagh. ... I will say, as I have said…

It really makes perfect sense. Here all we are really saying is that if one country, in this case it happens to be Turkey, but it could be any country, accepts U.S. assistance, they have to allow humanitarian assistance that the U.S. is…

There is legislation that has actually been introduced by the gentleman from California [Mr. Radanovich], I believe, and the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Bonior] on a bipartisan basis and obviously we would like to get that moved.

I would like to say right now on the floor, with all due respect to the Turkish Democracy Foundation, I would say that the Congress is the proper place to discuss the genocide, as well as classrooms and civic organizations and religious…

I know the gentleman wants to be kind, but I have to say that, you know, the ultimate irony in this whole idea of foreign governments is that, and one of the reasons that I believe that the chairman of your committee, the gentleman from…

I appreciate the comments the gentleman made. I know that our time is running out, because we want to yield for another special order tonight, but there are going to be a lot more opportunities. We are going to be here every night, if…

I have noticed, I am certainly not an expert on it, but if we look at some other countries in Western Europe and other democracies, many of them do in fact have the free TV time or the free newspaper time or whatever. It is not an unusual…

I think the Children's Defense Fund report explains very well, the reason why those efforts have not been enough is because during that same period, the last 10 years or so, we have seen fewer and fewer employers that provide any health…

I am glad the gentlewoman brought up the community-based health clinics. I have some in my district, as well. The problem, of course, they face is scarce resources. In other words, increasingly the amount of money that has been made…

I just wanted to thank the committee and the ranking member for including in this legislation the text of H.R. 3911, which establishes the Great Falls Historic District in Paterson, NJ. I had introduced this bill earlier this session at…

It is really incredible when you think about it. I thank the gentleman for bringing it up. I would like to yield to the gentleman from Michigan. I know he has pointed out over and over again how important the President's effort has been…

You mentioned Head Start, and I just wanted to say I have two young children; one is 3, and the other is a year and a half; and I do not spend a lot of time, but I spent a little time reading about childhood development and all that, and…

The gentleman forgot when he came to the well and challenged the Speaker on the qualified Medicaid beneficiaries we are going to take away from the poorest widows in the country where Medicaid was paying for their Medicare part B premium…

Not only strictly party line, every Republican voted against it, but if you remember when it came to the floor, Speaker Gingrich had said he was going to correct it and he never did. He actually came here one day in the well and said he…