Rob Andrews

Mr. Chairman, this week, the House has in front of it two well-thought-out but starkly different visions of where to take the country. We have put forward a budget that is true to our principles. We believe that you grow the economy and…

I mostly certainly did, and I am about to say something that I think the chairman can confirm we very rarely hear around here. I was wrong. You see, I thought what you guys now think. I thought that an increase in the top marginal rates…

Yes. Reclaiming my time, it's also the case that every single Republican there in 1993 voted against the plan that put that into effect and, therefore, they have no ownership. So I would say the record is very, very clear, that I think our…

Well, it's a goal that we should achieve right here, right now, today, by passing this bill. We've heard the argument that the bill establishes preferential treatment for people with mental health and substance abuse issues, exactly the…

Someone who is struggling with substance abuse addiction or bipolar disorder, they shouldn't be under a different set of rules for getting their bills paid by their insurance company than if they had a knee injury. That is what this is…

I congratulate Chairman Hinojosa, Chairman Miller, Mr. Keller and Mr. McKeon for their excellent work on this bill. In the global economic competition, the difference between winning and losing is having skilled workers or not having…

When we started working on this project, it was a matter of simple fairness to Americans who sold a home under difficult circumstances. Now, unfortunately, the problem has grown into one of economic urgency because our economy is in…

Mr. Speaker, with governing comes responsibility. The responsible vote on this rule and this bill is ``yes.'' The minority has talked about responsibility for the military. They are right. That is why this body and the other body passed a…

this resolution affirms the obvious and avoids the necessary. It is obvious that the common goal of the United States, the House, the Senate, Republicans and Democrats, is to avoid a failed state in Iraq. The Senate bill affirms this, the…

the majority will have a chance to work its will, the House will have a chance to work its will on his proposition, and we will make a majority decision and he will either win or lose, which I think is fair and within the rules.

the record should reflect some accuracy in the point two of our friends just made that the proposition that the display of a religious artifact such as a Bible in and of itself creates a hostile work environment. There is not a shred of…

I want to emphasize a point of agreement and a point of disagreement: There is a broad and growing agreement that members of the transgendered community should receive the full protection of the Federal law, and many of us are committed to…

I rise in support of this well-thought-out amendment from Chairman Miller and Mr. Stupak. I think it quite fairly addresses some of the concerns people have raised. First, with respect to religion, on October 3, 2007, the president of…

So, Mr. Speaker, you're 6 months away from your 58th birthday, and the place where you have worked for 25 years closes and you have no health insurance. So you dip into your savings and you figure out a way to keep yourself in the plan…

This is what this bill is about: A person buys a house for $150,000 and has a $140,000 mortgage. And then bad times hit the neighborhood and the person can only sell the house for $130,000, but they still owe $140,000 on the mortgage. So…

I thank and congratulate my chairman and friend for this excellent piece of work. When middle-class people, when police officers and real estate agents and computer programmers sit down to fill out the forms at the kitchen table and apply…

somewhere in America right now an 8-year- old girl comes home to her mother and father and says she has a numbness and ache in her right arm, and they worry about it, wondering whether it is just a strain from playing on the playground or…

This is a narrow bill that supports a very broad principle. The broad principle is that discrimination has no place in the lives of Americans. This House has people working in it whose families came here who could not speak English but now…

I would like to join the subcommittee chairman in opposition to this amendment. Members who believe in a balanced and fair competition where the taxpayers get the greatest value for the dollar should oppose this amendment and support the…

This amendment seeks in 7 minutes to undue 72 years of labor law. For 72 years, it's been the law of the land that if an employer and an employee organization voluntarily choose to engage in collective bargaining, they're permitted to do…

I wanted to respond to our friend from Georgia's comment about compulsory unionism and affirm something my friend from Florida said earlier about compulsory unionism. Section 8(a)(2) of this bill says that nothing in this act or the…

I would commend my good friend for his persistence and congratulate him on a job beautifully done on this legislation. There is a strong bipartisan consensus for this legislation because it's all about common sense. Mr. Speaker, most…

a few minutes ago my friend from Georgia described buying something he didn't need at a price he couldn't afford. I want to thank him for giving us a perfect description of the last 7 years of the governance of this country under the Bush…

I support my friend from Illinois' amendment. Everybody, everybody, in our system is accountable. It doesn't matter what you call yourself. It doesn't matter how you define yourself. When it was convenient for him to avoid scrutiny over…

I respectfully submit, Mr. Chairman, that we have financed this enough. Since 1982, the taxpayers of the country have expended over $1 billion to finance the construction and maintenance of these 5,000 miles of roads. The economic result…