Anthony Weiner

Would you find anything offensive about recognizing the importance of the symbols and traditions of Diwali, the Indian New Year for Indian Americans?

he controls the time. He has yielded to me for a question, and now I am asking it.

I have no question about the gentleman's values or his intent. Is there any element of this bill that if we substituted ``Chanukah,'' which you mentioned, recognizing the importance of the symbols and traditions of Chanukah, would you find…

It is exactly the place to debate. We are on the floor of the House of Representatives.

despite the divisiveness of the term ``faith-based,'' most Americans are united in their support of religious organizations. Across the country, these organizations do great work, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, and in many cases…

in 1913, a little girl name Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Alabama. As she grew up, her mother, Leona McCauley, encouraged her daughter to ``take advantage of the opportunities, no matter how few they were,'' and she did just that. In…

if I can be further heard on the unanimous consent request, and I believe the paperwork is on the way, it is a very simple matter. The sponsor of the legislation says he wants to do what is right for consumers. Over and over we have heard…

I have been recognized, so that is not the issue. Is the issue the form of the unanimous consent request? The SPEAKER pro tempore. If the gentleman would submit his amendment, the Chair would examine it.

No, I want to be heard on my unanimous consent, and I was recognized. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has not recognized the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) on his unanimous consent request. The gentleman is, however, recognized…

I move by unanimous request that we amend H.R. 5 to include a cap on premium increases for the duration of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Latham). The Chair cannot entertain that request at this time. Parliamentary Inquiries

Certainly. My unanimous consent request is that H.R. 5 be amended by unanimous consent, the consent here of both the majority and the minority, that premium increases, health insurance premium increases, be limited to zero for the duration…

I still have a unanimous consent that is, I believe, in the hands of the Parliamentarian now. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my unanimous consent request. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) withdraws his unanimous…

I think all of the assembled Parliamentarians, staffers, the histrionics of the other side, the apoplexy over the idea that perhaps we might actually reduce premiums is fairly instructive to this debate. We had no hearings on this. We had…

Is this the appropriate place in the reading for a limiting amendment? The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman may offer his amendment. Amendment Offered by Mr. Weiner

Just for the purpose of clarification, under my amendment we are not reducing the budget of the NSF. It is going up. It is going up. I just want to make that clear. What we are doing is we are saying it should rise back to the level it was…

pictured on this chart is an Asian long- horned beetle. This is one of the many pests that are under the responsibility of APHIS, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. This is an insect that bores its way into trees, primarily in…

to paraphrase a line from a movie, I am out of order; this whole House is out of order in the way it allocates homeland security funds. I do not dispute the point of order, and I will yield to the ruling of the Chair. The Acting CHAIRMAN…

sometimes events happen one after another and no one calls attention to a pattern. Today, alarm bells should be going off about the rising threat of anti-Semitism. When Arab countries practiced anti-Semitism, when textbooks made Jews out…

And let me just reiterate, Mr. Speaker, and perhaps I have a less cynical perspective than my colleague does. I think something good is coming out of this in that our generation is remembering again that there was a time in this country…

I would argue that interest on the national debt that we are racking up every year is an expenditure that we get no value for. It is essentially foreign aid is what it really is because so much of these payments are going overseas because…

First of all, there is a great deal of discussion inherent in the President's debates that seeks to drive a wedge between two generations. The beauty of the Social Security program is it was a classic generational compact. One generation…

I tell my colleagues that the ultimate decider of this issue is not going to be the three of us. The ultimate decider will be the numbers of people sending e-mails to [email protected] and who contact their elected officials…

Today we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It is a powerful and important reminder of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. More than 1.5 million prisoners--most of them Jews--perished in gas chambers or died…

Frankly, this is the anti-immigrant ring of the Republican Party that's held up the bill up until now.

Well, frankly, the hearings that were held by the 9/11 commission showed that we were getting a great deal of intelligence that, if processed right, if getting into the right hands, could have prevented the September 11 attacks.