Jerry Nadler

It is clear, obviously, that it will take some time to get an infrastructure bank up and running.

But clearly, as Henry Clay realized, and Abraham Lincoln, and President Eisenhower, and a lot of others, it can't finance all the roads and projects that we need.

We have to be careful about falling prey to lofty rhetoric about somehow finding a magic formula, a magic non-political formula for project selection.

The chairman's mark for the service transportation bill would be a 35-percent cut in funding. That is exactly the wrong direction to be going in.

We have to leverage private funds. I am not saying this is a substitute for public funds. It is not.

A written Constitution should provide procedures for decision-making, procedures for governance, and protection of individual rights.

We shouldn't put ideological choices into the Constitution.

Does it make sense economically to pass a balanced budget amendment without a capital budget, which means we can never borrow money under any circumstances for any purpose without a three-fifths vote in Congress?

If we restored PAYGO rules intelligently and started behaving the way we did in the 1990's, we may have a different situation.

Social Security is flush--flush--for at least 75 years if you assume that the annual growth rate, the economic growth rate of the United States, will be 2.4 percent or more.

Whatever anyone may think of the debt or how to reduce it or the proper level of Government expenditures as a percentage of GDP, those kinds of policies are to be enacted as legislation which can be modified, amended, or repealed by future…

Deficits don't matter.

We managed to turn record surpluses into record deficits in record time.

If adopted, a balanced budget amendment, especially the ones proposed, would have catastrophic consequences for the Nation, for the economy, and for the future.

The real problem is that tax revenues have declined from 20\1/2\ percent of GDP in 2000 to 14\1/2\ percent of GDP because we no longer tax the millionaires, the billionaires and the large corporations the way we used to. Let's start doing…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 127, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000)''. The Acting…

Reclaiming my time, the limitation in the bill will simply make sure that it doesn't expand. The fact is that with all of the negotiations going on and the debt ceiling and everything else, there is going to be pressure to cut everything…

Reclaiming my time, to sum up, this helps the Israelis; it helps the United States; it helps the general security; and it sends the message to the European allies they should start looking into maybe putting some real effort into NATO…

Nowhere in this bill is the National Drug Intelligence Center either authorized or funded at all. That was changed a few years ago. It used to be funded from DOD. It's now entirely funded and authorized in the Department of Justice. This…

In closing, I again want to stress that this amendment commends all those who worked so hard to bring justice to bin Laden and recognizes that our number one intelligence priority is the defeat of al Qaeda. It should get bipartisan…

I would like to start by reminding Mr. Sires that the Lincoln Tunnel is in my district, too.

These are taxpayers, they are workers. They don't deserve to be treated like that.

By taking us back to a time when rule 11 actually promoted routine, costly, and unnecessary litigation, this bill is a cure far worse than the disease.

It is deja vu all over again. After a brief hiatus, we are back to legislation supposedly aimed at preventing frivolous litigation.

The remarks of the gentleman from Florida were incorrect. This amendment limits $10 billion from this CR, enough to bring the troops home during the pendency of this CR. Funds that were already spent were appropriated from the previous…