Steve Rothman

He was known throughout the world as a champion of the downtrodden, those in need, and a champion of human rights.

History will record that this young man from Newark, Donald Payne, literally saved tens of thousands of lives--he did--all over the world--in America, in Africa, and in Northern Ireland.

Madam Speaker, today Newark, the State of New Jersey, and the United States of America lost a hero, and the world lost, especially those that needed help, those who were being persecuted, they lost a champion.

I don't seek a rush to war.

My big question was, does Iran know that there is no room between the two--there are disagreements among friends at all levels, as well as nations, but do they--the President used the word 'prevent,' and you have used the word, that the…

Gadhafi should not even be granted a visa to enter the United States.

Address in some way or another and improve the situation where we now have 47 million uninsured.

If the health care bill passes, will elective abortion be paid for by the government? Answer. No.

One of the purposes of this health care reform or health insurance reform is to keep the insurance companies out of it.

So do you get, my colleagues, the hypocrisy? They slashed the tax collectors, paid eight times more to this private contractor cronies, and then when we get a Democratic majority in the House to pass this to eliminate this wasteful…

This amendment strikes an earmark for a project requested by myself and Congressman Sires who together represent the town of North Bergen, New Jersey. The funds allocated in this bill would have gone towards the construction of a new…

The gentleman is afraid that because at an anti-Zionism ``World without Zionism'' conference, Ahmadinejad said, ``Wipe Israel off the map.'' We are quibbling over whether he said on another occasion, wipe the Israel regime, Zionist regime…

My friend, you referred to a translation of a speech. The offenses of Ahmadinejad are many. And three separate remarks on three separate occasions calling for the destruction of the state of Israel, does the gentleman have translations of…

The distinguished chairman dares me to go back and tell my people. I am going to say, the Republicans will not give you the minimum wage increase unless we give $800 billion to the super-rich. They will say, don't do it, Steve. We will…

May I just remind the Speaker that today Secretary of the Treasury John Snow said in his testimony before our subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that the tax cuts of this majority and President Bush account for one-third of…

And remember this, not only has this been the policy that has put us in the largest deficit in the history of the country, the Republican majority and the President want to make this policy permanent. They want to make their tax cuts for…

By the way, the incomes of the people who were going to have their tax cut reduced by 5,000 were only individuals whose annual income was $1 million or more. And we said, can we take 5,000 from the 80 or 100 or 150,000 they are going to…

I would do what the gentleman suggests, but I am not going to before that allow Castro to have the benefits of tourism from the United States until he returns these cop-killers and 74 fugitives back to the United States.

The question is what should Israel be doing now. Israel is doing now what the United States is doing now: protecting its people from terrorists, and bringing justice to them or bringing them to justice, until these people either will say…

It breaks our hearts for the Palestinian people that they have refused to elect leaders who will deliver them a Palestinian state.

That is what we were just talking about, the 1947 partition plan that the Palestinians and the Arab world rejected when Israel would have been divided in half, half Palestinian, half Jewish, with Jerusalem as an international city. They…

By the way, the Sinai campaign refers to the fact that in 1967, the surrounding Arab nations went to war with Israel again.

That is when England said after World War I, we want to, just as we are giving Arabia to the Saud family and we are giving Jordan to the Hussein family and creating all these countries, we think there should be a Jewish homeland in this…

To build on that last point, by the way, it is important to remember that while we were at war, the Cold War, but nonetheless a very dangerous war with the Soviet Union for 50 years, we are now friends with Russia. We had a terrible world…