Rob Andrews

Mr. Speaker, the House is in the business of taking votes to decide things. This week we took a vote on whether to congratulate the people of East Timor, as we should have. We took a vote on naming a Federal building, as we should have…

we are gathered tonight in a place of great and high honor. This is a Chamber in which decisions that have profoundly affected the history of our Nation and of humankind have been debated with great dignity and honor. In this Chamber we…

Taxpayers who object to paying for able-bodied people to stay on welfare should object to this bill, because what it is going to lead to in the long run is more people who are able-bodied being back on public assistance. The flaw in this…

I am honored to support this bill in his name, and thank the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) for his contribution. America stands today as perhaps the greatest military power in global history; but as we have learned in the last 7…

I would ask the gentleman to tell me, if your bill became law tomorrow, if an employee had stock in a 401(k) plan that was employer-matched, how many years would the employee have to wait before they could sell the stock?

I think I just heard the gentleman say that if the majority's bill became law tomorrow, an employee would have to wait for 5 years before he or she could divest themselves of all of the stock; is that correct?

I want to be very clear: The proposal that we support, the Democratic substitute, does call for a 3-year period, not a 1-year period as some groups outside of this body are alleging. It is a 3-year period. The Republican proposal, the…

Mr. Speaker, we should not replace no advice for workers with bad advice for workers. A few days ago, the attorney general for New York alleged a scheme involving the Merrill Lynch firm that worked like this: one part of the Merrill Lynch…

the tragedy that affected the Enron pensioners is a story about power and conflict of interest. People with a lot of power and influence and a conflict of interest took advantage of people with very little power and influence, and those…

Mr. Chairman, we should all oppose this amendment irrespective of our position for or against gun control. We should oppose this amendment because it is unconstitutional. It violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution…

I know that the unemployed people of our country need help and our economy needs help, and I think there is broad agreement on that tonight. Where there is disagreement is over the two-thirds of the money in this bill that is not spent…

the legislation before us has great merit. It would stabilize the student loan program, and I intend to work as hard as I can to see that it is enacted. However, another piece of legislation that has great merit and bipartisan support is…

I begin by offering my thanks and appreciation to the gentleman from Ohio (Chairman Boehner) and the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), our ranking member, for their very gifted leadership; for the diligence of my Republican…

The liability provisions in this substitute do not impose new liability upon employers. What they do is impose new responsibility and liability upon advisors who breach their fiduciary duty. And the employer-protection provisions in this…

Mr. Speaker, this piece of legislation is about a person who is at the age of 30 or 40 in his or her life and starting to think about retirement, hopefully sooner than that, and they find they have a few thousand dollars in an account, in…

I rise today to call for the creation of a new organization very much like the NATO organization to help us in the global fight against terrorism. NATO was the most successful organization in the modern history of the world for creating a…

I am proud to rise as a co-sponsor and supporter of the legislation. This legislation is good for the traveling passenger. It is good for the small business person, and I believe it is good for highway safety.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to thank and congratulate the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), and the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) for the outstanding legislative product they have put before this body…

I had proposed an amendment to provide $2 million to the Secretary of Defense in order to assist the Department of Defense in ensuring that computers and computer-related products that the Department purchases from the commercial sector…

if a military base is deciding whether or not to contract out car washing at that military base, this amendment says before they can make that decision to take those jobs away from public employees, they must give those public employees a…

At a time of great uncertainty in our country, this bill provides strong assurances to the American people. When our Commander in Chief calls our men and women in service to action, they will be ready because of this legislation and other…

tonight with the passage of this resolution, it is time that we move from words to deeds. We must identify and destroy all those who perpetrated the horror on our country on Tuesday. We must then move swiftly to cut off their financing…

generations of American school children will read and study about September 11, 2001. In their history, they will see that Americans across our land are manifesting the spirit of their chosen God in millions of acts of compassion and…

A person goes to her primary care provider, and the primary care provider notices a lesion on the patient's skin. She says that she thinks that the patient ought to see a specialist to see what the lesion is. Her managed care plan says…

Under the budget rules of the House of Representatives, when someone brings a bill to the floor that would reduce revenue flow of the Treasury, they normally have to show where it is going to be paid for. This amendment was given an…