José E. Serrano

Also I think that your statements speak to a summary, executive summary of the report coming out.

The fact of life is that during the last 5 years the National Guard has been taxed to go somewhere else overseas.

I was not in Washington with my colleagues on September 11. I was in New York.

This was a historic event. I had people coming from my district in the Bronx who were over 90 years old.

We spend a lot of time on this Committee, and rightfully so, discussing the southern border, but there is a lot of work also to be done on the northern border.

As you know, the Cuban Adjustment Act allows Cubans to be the only people to my knowledge in the world that by touching land here can stay, are not considered illegal immigrants and can apply for citizenship sooner, earlier than anyone…

I want to wish him all the best and tell the Members that those individuals who work 24/7 into late at night are people like Dale Oak who make us look good and who serve the American people although their name and their work sometimes is…

The least important thing I can think of, the least important, is that the American public doesn't think too well of Congress right now, and going into a secret session is not going to help that. But that is the least important thing. It…

I want to thank the gentlemen, both the chairman and the ranking member of the subcommittee and the ranking member of the full committee, for this very important legislation. My reason for speaking is simply to inform you of what you may…

I rise tonight to take a moment to highlight some of the provisions that were included in the Financial Services and General Government section of the omnibus appropriations legislation that we are considering this evening. Despite a…

Here, he takes time, and, if I may say, dollars he probably could have asked for his own district, to make sure that something in the nation's capital happens, and happens properly.

I was beginning to feel left out. We were moving along with this bill, and I had not seen the usual cast of very intelligent and proper folks come to the floor to attack the bill and to try to cut it. And I have to tell you, I'm a very…

I will always be proud of the years I spent in the Millbrook Projects in the South Bronx. I will be proud of my years in public school. I will be proud of the fact that I came to the United States not speaking English and that I learned to…

this is the kind of amendment that shows up every so often. It plays to our patriotic feelings and to our feelings of wanting to be good Americans. So what you tell Americans is that if a language other than English is used anywhere in the…

in closing, I just want to, first of all, comment that I must have hit a nerve in telling the truth, because the gentleman from Georgia got so excited that he made some noise that I'm trying to figure out later what it means. Something…

If you're willing to join me in a further amendment that says we should do 125 languages, I would be glad to join you because I believe in that. That's fine. That's because I don't know what you're really saying there.

125, that's what you said; we should do it for everybody. So that's 125 languages. My other point, because I don't want to take up your time, is, it's interesting to note how the language changes. Now you're saying they're getting money…

the gentleman starts off as we suspected by assuming that Members of Congress have no ability and no understanding and no knowledge, enough certainly to make an appropriation called an earmark. That assumes that only Federal agencies and…

Mr. Chairman, I truly do apologize if the gentlewoman thought that the word ``cast'' was improper. I will speak to our Hollywood friends and ask them if it's improper to have a cast of individuals. It could be a cast of bad characters, or…

This is not my earmark. But you know something, as chairman of the committee that carries the earmarks, I respect the fact that every Member has a right to put them forth, and we looked at all of them, as did Mr. Regula, and the earmarks…

I totally agree with her that this Congress must place a new emphasis on consumers and ensuring that defective and dangerous products, particularly from overseas, are kept from the marketplace. I may say that if you were to look at our…

But this is, again, the same thing. It is yet another cut, another desire to say we should have gone deeper in our cuts. When I think of this, I wonder, if we should have come to where the President wanted. The President wanted $243…

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in closing, the gentleman is correct. This is a very serious matter. This administration, this Vice President, whether on torture, whether on prisons, whether on their behavior in spying on Americans, has told us over and over that they…

I'm in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. And the gentleman continues to stay with the theme that these programs can operate without government assistance. Yet, the gentleman, on many occasions, votes, as we all do, for programs…