It is my pleasure to stand up in support of this resolution in support of Women's History Month. It is important to note that here, in 2010, that insurance companies very often charge women exponentially more money to get health insurance…

Mr. Lumpkin, who we are honoring today, if it were up to the members of the minority party, Mr. Lumpkin would not have Medicare, would he? He would have had Social Security privatized. Now, I couldn't help noticing that not long ago the…

I would ask the American people to listen to the following exchange: 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…

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…

Ladies and gentlemen, what you saw just now is a microcosm for this debate, a real piece of legislation that for a year we have been working on and a fake document that they won't even give the source for. We are going past that, and we…

The fact of the matter is there is an enormous amount of money being socked in by the health insurance industry. They are doing everything. They are creating ads. They are making contributions. But what they are also doing is producing…

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.

The fact is that the various States have different levels of tax on their tobacco products. Some States are very high. My State of New York is among the highest. Our city puts an additional tax. It is one of the prerogatives of the…

I thank you very much. But the point is very simple. There are inequities in the present way we distribute insurance, the way we distribute health care. There are winners, and there are losers. The winners are the insurance industry. And…

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

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…

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 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…

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…

Well, I thank the gentleman. Very well put. I appreciate your leadership on this. I should point out whenever I come to the floor, whether it be to make sense of our foreign policy as it relates to Saudi Arabia, you have been always been…

You know, some of us have turned on the television in recent days and seen that there has been a change in tactics on the part of the Israelis. They are no longer going over with planes or sending rockets themselves to try to hit these…

Now, obviously we know what we can do with Saudi Arabia. We treat Saudi Arabia as if they're an ally. We provide them with foreign aid as well. Even more, we are about to send them the most sophisticated weapons around. Now, I don't know…

One of the things, Congresswoman Berkley, that people have said is, well, maybe if Israel takes a deep breath and they pull back and maybe stop the assault against these terrorists, maybe that would be the correct approach. Well, you know…

Whatever it is, his mother must be very proud. But as it turned out, they have essentially outsourced to any terrorist function that wants to go. Secretary of State designee Clinton, President-elect Obama, you know, if you want to look for…