Rob Andrews

In fact, many of these I was directly involved in in the State of Minnesota, because we had families, women, mothers, husbands, brothers, aunts and uncles come and say that this was basic health care coverage that their mothers needed…

I understand there are variations in plan costs around the country. I would once again say, however, that the most enthusiastic proponents of the AHP plan do not talk about a reduction of the magnitude that the chairman of the full…

reclaiming my time, what premium benefit then would the chairman claim would result from this bill? I yield to the chairman to tell us what premium benefit he predicts would result from the underlying bill.

I want to again reemphasize that the objective analysis of this bill, contrary to what we have heard repeatedly today, is that it will increase the number of uninsured persons. It will do so because those who are not in AHPs who must still…

Also in this bill, 51,000 of my constituents will not receive the extension, either.

Tomorrow morning 1 million Americans will arise and have no jobs. They will go to the front doorstep and pick up the newspaper and look at the want ads. The want ads will be filled with solicitations for jobs if you are a nuclear engineer…

This is a strong and good bill on which there are points of serious disagreement. One of those points of disagreement is the extent to which environmental protection laws should be rolled back in the case of military operations. Many of us…

Mr. Speaker, I would urge our colleagues to vote in favor of the Miller substitute. If there is one asset that should be sacrosanct, if there is one asset that should be solid as a rock, it is our pensions. Prior to 1974, there were…

I would urge our colleagues to support this well-reasoned and well-thought-out Democratic substitute. It differs in many ways, and it is an improvement in many ways from the underlying bill. I would like to highlight a few of those…

Once a year in my district a group of people gather in the middle of a dusty field and they line up trucks and tents on either side of the field, and over the course of a weekend veterans from all over our area come to this field to…

at times of great stress, great patriots rise to the occasion. Tonight there are young Americans who are rising to the occasion as they traverse across the desert sands of Iraq, as they soar across the unfriendly skies of Iraq, as they…

I rise as one who supported very strongly the resolution to authorize the use of force in Iraq. I know many patriotic Americans vigorously disagree with that position. I hope out of that vigorous disagreement today will come the unifying…

I believe that the principal division between the enlightened view of the Greek Cypriots and the regressive view of Mr. Denktash is their willingness to let the people decide their own fate. In the set of principles articulated by Kofi…

I rise tonight to speak on a subject that is very much on the hearts and minds of the American people, especially in these last 18 to 20 months, and that is terrorism. Terrorism is the deliberate use of violence against civilians for the…

I congratulate the women of the University of Portland on their outstanding achievement of winning the NCAA Division I soccer championship, and their achievement gives us pause to look backward at the world that their mothers lived in and…

I have a very different interpretation than he put on this resolution. The statement that our role is finished after this week as a Congress, I do not read the resolution that way, in two very important respects. The first is that the…

I just do not want there to be any misconception that if it is necessary to send these young men and women into combat that they will not have the very finest and best tools of protection.

I rise in sincere remembrance of a gentle soul and a good friend, Patsy Mink. I offer my condolences to her husband John, daughter Wendy, and my thanks to the service that the entire family has given by permitting their wife and mother to…

There is a serious disagreement about the underlying bill and whether or not it poses the right solution to the malpractice crisis. Aside from that, there should be no dispute over what this bill should and should not do with respect to…

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the distinguished majority whip knows that the people of Texas have lost $11.47 billion in their pension assets since these scandals began... The scandal that has roiled the market, the scandal that has caused the…

I think this resolution is very meaningful because it shows that the majority in the face of real economic stress and pain in our country is more interested in positioning for the election that is coming in 6 weeks than it is in solving…

I oppose what is a good bill. I oppose it because there is a larger principle at stake here, and that is the reasonable right of the minority to have its say in the process of writing legislation. The House has been here before, Mr…

I was unable to travel to Washington, DC on July 10, 2002 because I was attending the burial of Firefighter Thomas G. Stewart III, who died in the line of duty on July 4th, 2002 in Gloucester City, New Jersey. Had I been present, I would…

I am one of the people who voted for the underlying bill. I think it is excellent in many ways. I agree with the gentleman from Maryland's analysis and the gentleman from Ohio's analysis of the underlying bill. But I am not going to vote…

there is no division in this House, or I believe in this country today, over the question of whether we want to fully and vigorously support the war on terrorism. I join what I would believe to be a near unanimous or unanimous body in this…