Anthony Weiner

Look, the fact of the matter is there are differences of opinion here and they are philosophical and deep felt. We believe in Medicare; we created it. You opposed it at the time; you oppose it now. We support Social Security. I would…

I rise to pay tribute to Clarence Lumpkin. This is a great day for the State of Ohio. The mayor of Linden deserves to have a post office named for him for all his service. I do hate to pollute this debate with facts. I am really almost…

Will the gentleman from New Jersey kindly inform the House the source of the memo that he just read from? That silence that you hear is the gentleman from New Jersey read from a fake memo, a fraudulent memo.

You know, you got to love these Republicans. I mean, you guys have chutzpah. The Republican Party is . . . That is the fact. They say that, well, this isn't going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition…

We need to change what we're doing here. We need to listen and not be tone deaf.

In the House of Representatives, without a strong public plan, even stronger than the one we reported out of committee, I think it would have a very difficult time getting 218 votes.

In the House of Representatives without a strong public plan, even stronger than the one we reported out of committee, I think it would have a very difficult time getting 218 votes.

I think the fact is that we have let you down. I think there is no other way to say it, except that we have let you and the other victims down for too long.

We have a situation where thousands of our neighbors, 70 percent of the first responders, have some form of respiratory ailment.

If we knew in the period--when we passed the Victims Compensation Fund, that sitting out there in the audience... were a whole group of people that had a deadly seed that was born on September 11th within them... there is no question that…

I think it bears recollecting that the Victims Compensation Fund was a remarkable success in the face of some extraordinary obstacles.

I just think this debate has been instructive. I would say that on one side you have people who are advocating for the 2 million people who are waiting without coupons and for the 7 million or so people that Nielsen says is in this…

There is no doubt that the premise of your remarks and mine is the same. The past administration screwed up the administration of this program. There is no doubt about it. We should not be where we are today. That is why we need to pass…

I think that, in fact, it is very important that we do make this transition. But do have two competing safety imperatives. One is the imperative of when this bandwidth is then used for emergency responders, which is not going to happen…

And you believe it's OK to look at what they're for. You believe it's OK to look at what they're against. Why can't you look at votes they ducked?

And you believe it's okay to look at what they're for. You believe it's okay to look at what they're against. Why can't you look at the votes they ducked?

I believe that Israel has shown restraint the likes of which I don't think we have seen a nation on Earth ever show. If you think of the sheer number of attacks they have withstood over the course of time, putting aside the 2,000 or so in…

But I have to say to the gentlelady, this notion that it was a response to corruption, when someone campaigns and gives you a flyer, vote for me and I am going to wipe out the State of Israel, and then the moment they get in, they increase…

And then the question has to be raised, as much good intention as Secretary of State Rice and the administration may have here, having sit-downs and negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas and trying to present him with aid and trying to make his…

And I think the gentlewoman is right, except in her pronunciation, which was confirmed with the embassy earlier today that there is no T and it is Sderot. But that is another whole conversation, which is why I would never get elected to…

Unless you believe, which some people may, that all of Israel should be under Arab control. Then you don't believe in this existential sense that Israel should believe at all.

I just want to clarify some of the mistakes made by the previous speaker, at least the misimpressions left. One, technology grants cut under the previous Republican Congress; two, alternatives to incarceration cut under the previous…

I think what you have just described is a military stretched thin, my friend. I think when you have people in the Reserves doing three tours, that are being taken away from their communities, I think that is a military stretched thin.

I think we should be figuring out how to do the people's business. We have already lowered their cost of college. We have increased the minimum wage. We have put an ethics plan into place.

I recall we were given an up-or-down vote without any opportunity for alternatives on the original war in Iraq, and I think we are going to have eight votes, and we have accepted this amendment, eight votes on various amendments to this…