Look, there definitely is a disconnect here. You see my Senate colleagues wrap their arms around the 9/11 workers, praise them.

This is whether you consider people who have helped build this country to what it is, who have paid into the Social Security Trust Fund, and who very often rely entirely on Social Security for their support. These are people who, frankly…

Mr. Speaker, during these difficult economic times, Americans are looking for any way that they can to try to make ends meet. They are taking on second jobs; they are looking through their cupboards, trying to see if there is anything they…

Compromise is not a vice. ... But it seems almost as if I missed the part of the fight, like, where was the fight where he said what he believed in?

Within the next 30 minutes or so, about four, perhaps five, buses of people are going to arrive on the West front of the Capitol and walk in here and fill up these Chambers. These are people who, almost every single one of them, are to…

This is the day that we can stand up and say, You know what? If you really believe philosophically we shouldn't take care of these people, vote ``no.'' But let's try not to make mischief. Let's try to talk about this in a serious, adult…

You know, here in Washington, there are a couple of different ways you can kill a bill. One is the honest way--you vote ``no.'' Put your card in, you press the ``no'' vote. It shows ``no'' up on the board. Another way you can kill…

The idea that someone would volunteer or be eager to get the benefits that, in order to get them, you have to have a stew of toxic dust in your lungs, so much that you can't breathe normally, and you cough. And when you hear that 9/11…

It takes great courage to wait until all Members have already spoken and then stand up and wrap your arms around procedure. We see it in the United States Senate every single day when Members say, We want amendments. We want debate. We…

I will not yield. The gentleman gets up and yells like he does to intimidate people into believing he's right. The gentleman is wrong. The gentleman is providing cover for his colleagues rather than doing the right thing. It's Republicans…

This is a noncontroversial bill. If you believe that we owe a debt to the people who have served our country, this is your moment to repay it. You know, you talk as if you're giving them some kind of a benefit. What benefit has occurred…

If you're one of those folks who has one of those new, modern TVs with the ``what the heck are they talking about button'' on the TV, you're going to need it for this side of the aisle because, frankly, it is insane for them to wrap their…

I just want to point out, this is not a zero-sum game. There is nothing about the single-home market that is going to be impacted by this. There is nothing about the higher cost that is going to be impacted. This is just allowing this…

I appreciate the opportunity. I also want to thank my colleague, Mr. Miller, with whom I offer this amendment. This is a similar amendment--in fact, it is identical to one that was adopted by voice vote. There are problems with some FHA…

If the gentleman would briefly yield, I, too, want to add my thanks to you. I don't know if they have C-SPAN in Israel, but sometimes it's easy in that little country to feel beset on all sides. We share the same common sense that they do…

And I would point out, that same exact offer was made to this flotilla: Come to Ashdod right here. And it wasn't made an hour before; it was made 10 days before, as soon as the word got out, even before it had left port. The nation of…

Our cooperation with the State of Israel has never been higher, in terms of military and intelligence.

Just so everyone understands the points that Mr. Nadler is making, this piece of real estate, about the size of New Jersey, now has a terrorist agent here in Gaza in the south; a terrorist agent up here in Lebanon, governed by Hezbollah…

I thank the gentlewoman. And as someone who represents south Florida, you know that if a boat came churning towards the coast, and let's say it came from Yemen, and it had people on it who were chanting ``Death to Floridians,'' and it…

I would say to the gentleman, I would actually argue that the military of Israel used such restraint. I mean, frankly, there aren't too many ways to stop a boat. One of the ways is to fire upon it. They chose to put their own sailors in…

It is also important that we recognize something else that the majority leader said about the use of human shields on that boat. There were probably some people on that boat who were completely without malice; although most of the loudest…

Well, I thank you, and before the majority leader leaves the floor, I think on behalf of all of us in this institution, long before you were the majority leader here, it was hard to think of a Member of the United States Congress in maybe…

I appreciate his thoughts and his leadership on this. Just to put it in further context of the relationship between the United States and Israel, this is a tiny town of Sderot that you mentioned in your remarks. In the period of time since…

And my colleagues, in the overnight hours of May 31, about 10 days ago, news broke that we now have become very familiar with--the previous speaker referred to it, and several of my colleagues have come to the floor this evening to talk…

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…