Steve Rothman

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Chairman, what are the priorities of the Republican majority? This is the greatest deficit in the history of the United States. How are they going to pay for the tax cuts? They are going to borrow the money from…

what are the priorities of the Democratic Party? And what are the priorities of the Republican majority, the Republican majority who have been in power in the House and the Senate for 5\1/2\ years with a Republican President for 5\1/2\…

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…

Can I first say a couple of things? I want to first thank Congressman Meek and yourself, my dear friend Congressman Delahunt. We started out in Congress 9\1/2\ years ago. We are delighted to welcome this very bright young man who is now a…

It was an honest answer, and I thanked him for that. He said that it was wasteful, and he said that is the budget that the President gave me. My subcommittee had a hearing today and we had the Secretary of the Treasury in front of us, Mr…

And we were only inspecting 5 percent of the containers. That was the Republican majority's policy. They were in charge. They made the rule. The majority rules, and they won. We said in the House Appropriations Committee, we said to our…

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…

You know, some people will say, oh, there the Democrats go again, class warfare. There they go again, class warfare. Nonsense. We love rich people. We love poor people. We love middle class people. We love Americans. This is about the…

first allow me to thank my subcommittee chairman and his staff for being so extraordinarily cooperative and bipartisan in word and deed when it came to the needs of everyone on our subcommittee, Republican and Democrat. We on our side of…

we need three different kinds of national transportation systems in America: Airlines; highways for cars and trucks; and rail for freight and passenger service. That is only if we want to be a first-class country. That is only if we want…

as a proud cosponsor of H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, I rise in support of this legislation. Those of us who have long supported the increased accessibility and possibilities of ethical stem cell research…

I rise today to commemorate Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the annual observance of the mass genocide perpetrated in the mid-twentieth century by Nazi Germany, the most evil tyranny in the annals of human history. On Sunday, May…

I rise in celebration of the 184th Anniversary of Greek Independence and to thank my colleagues, Mr. Bilirakis and Mrs. Maloney, who have once again shown great leadership in their efforts to organize this special order. On Greek…

so what is a nice Jewish boy doing here on the floor of the House praising Catholic Schools? Because Catholic Schools do so much for our country, so much for our children, providing them with the basic tenets of the Catholic faith, the…

I am not sure that the American people understand what is happening with our fiscal House, our economic well-being. I wonder if the American people know, Mr. Speaker, that the President of the United States is borrowing money to add to the…

A lot of Americans wonder why we spend any money on foreign aid at all. Well, it is really very simple. Of course, we have a humanitarian interest in making sure that people do not suffer, and we help our neighbors, not just those next…

I am from the Garden State of New Jersey, from which most of the people who came to rescue the people in the burning towers came, from the place where the victims of 9/11 were transported to Liberty Island, to be triaged and cared for…

I rise in support of H.R. 3939, a bill to rename the main post office in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the town I live in, within my district, as the Mary Ann Collura Post Office. It has been a year since we lost Mary Ann, who served on the Fair…

according to the National Cancer Institute, 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer in her lifetime. I rise today in support of H.R. 1385, the Breast Cancer Research Postal Stamp because I believe that number is unacceptable. Breast cancer is…

for seven years, I have been pushing and voting for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under Medicare. Such a plan would give seniors access to the quality, affordable, life-saving medicines they need. Unfortunately, the final Medicare…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to discuss an important issue regarding the Fish and Wildlife Service's ongoing work in the Hackensack Meadowlands area of New Jersey. The Fish and Wildlife Service has termed the 8,400-acre Hackensack Meadowlands an…

under current Transportation Security Administration restrictions, no general aviation aircraft can fly within 15 miles of the Washington Monument. So why, then, does New York City, the other target of the worst terrorist attack in the…

let us make no mistake about what this debate is all about. It is about privatization, not about whether we should save taxpayers' money. Did you know that today, any Federal manager who wants to outsource or privatize any or all of his or…

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.