Louise Slaughter

I will be calling for a ``no'' vote on the previous question so that I can amend the rule and allow the House to consider the Sabo chemical plant security provision that was left exposed to a point of order in the rule, and the Obey…

I shall be very brief. As a microbiologist as well as a Member of Congress, I have been very concerned for some time about the overuse of antibiotics and the rise of drug-resistant bacteria. So what we are asking today is just a sum of…

Then because of the unfairness of this and the importance of this, and because this country is at war, and because you have shut out major debate on this bill, I move the House do now adjourn. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman…

let me take just a moment to say to my friend from Oklahoma that when the Democrats were in charge here we would take up to 2 weeks in the Rules Committee looking at the defense bill which was almost always open because we all recognized…

I will be asking Members to vote ``no'' on the previous question. If the previous question is defeated, I will amend the rule to allow the House to consider the Skelton amendment on prescription drug copayments for members of the military…

the amendment seeks to reduce proposed increases in copayments for military families back to current cost shares. As the war in Iraq drags on and on, we continue to ask more and more of the brave men and women who serve in our military…

let me first say something about the rising standard of living in America. We have lost over a million manufacturing jobs that were paying good wages with good futures, and many people employed in those jobs, lucky enough to find a second…

let me make it clear at the outset that if our motion to recommit passes, it will simply substitute for a sham bill a real reform bill. Mr. Speaker, an interesting new poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News came out last…

I did have some speakers on the way, but at this moment, they are not on the floor, so I will reserve.

on rollcall No. 82 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

whatever happened to the Republicans who were fiscally responsible? I think they must have left town after President Bush came to Washington in 2001. In January of that year, thanks to the fiscal policies of the Clinton administration, we…

we are truly at a crossroads in the history of the Nation. Abroad we are engaged in a war that with each passing day becomes more dangerous, just as our path to victory becomes more obscured. At home we are still dealing with the…

the first amendment by Mr. Sabo will create a new review and approval process to ensure that the secret, backroom deals, like the irresponsible Dubai Ports World, cannot happen again. The Sabo amendment strengthens the process by which our…

Mr. Speaker I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller). (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

just over a year ago, on the very first day of the last session of Congress, I stood on the floor and watched the Republican majority force through a new set of House rules, rules designed to destroy the House Ethics Committee and to…

I am disappointed and sad to say that the content of the budget, and the way we are approaching it, confirms the fears of the American people instead of their hopes. The bill the Republicans reported less than an hour ago is a bill that no…

I yield 3 minutes to gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio). Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, 3:10 a.m. The Republicans do all their best worst work at this time in the dark of night. Well, they have done a new thing here. They have bifurcated Santa…

I want to do something I have never done before and that is talk about the process in the Rules Committee. I listened to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), and I really am astonished at the deterioration of process in this House. I…

Let me take my remaining time, then, to close. Mr. Speaker, let me end as I began, deploring the process. This is the third legislature that I have served in. I am always proud to have been elected by people to represent them and their…

As it happens, I have extra time, and I yielded to Mr. Rangel to respond to your comments.

just 2 weeks ago, the majority forced a budget vote by two votes to cut $50 billion from education, from health care, from foster care, child support, and a host of other vital programs. They claimed that they were simply eliminating waste…

the speed with which the majority has sought to challenge the frank and honest appraisal of the war in Iraq offered yesterday by my friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha), proves that what he said resonated with the American…

I once said that budgets are moral documents. They reflect our choices, our priorities and they most clearly define our values, as a government and as a Nation. Today's 5-year budget reconciliation is no different, and that is exactly why…

lately when Americans turn on the news at night, they do not see the government that they recognize. They hear about a war in the Middle East gone wrong, and they see suffering people left to fend for themselves in times of crisis. They…

there are two fundamental problems with the bill before us today: What it does and what it does not to do. The bill will not address the very real and very immediate problems millions of Americans are facing every day. People are…