Maurice Hinchey

last Thursday President Bush got up on his $2.5 million podium and crowed about how his Medicare reform bill was making health care more affordable for seniors. But less than 24 hours later, this administration announced the largest…

this amendment is important, because as we have seen in the past, particularly during the Reagan and first Bush administrations, the Commodity Credit Corporation has been manipulated by those administrations, particularly for elicit…

My amendment cuts $500,000 from the office of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and adds that money to the FDA's Center For Drug Evaluation and Research. It is my intention that the funds should be cut from the FDA's…

let me first say that I have a great deal of respect for both the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) and for the work that they do here, and there is much in this resolution with which I…

This is an amendment which will protect the Yellowstone bison. The Yellowstone bison are unique, in that they are the last element that traces its genetic strain back to the American bison that roamed the great plains and prairies of…

we need a comprehensive national energy bill to reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil by investing in cleaner, safer ways to power America. The bill attached to this rule absolutely fails to reduce our growing demand for oil and…

when the national Republican Party took us to war in Iraq, the average price of gasoline across the country was $1.40 cents a gallon, and we were told that the cost of the war in Iraq would be negligible because it would be paid for by the…

the U.S. watershed protection program is a very significant piece of environmental legislation. It is part of the Federal Clean Water Act, itself being one of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation ever addressed by this…

it has now been 30 months, 2\1/2\ years, since the attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Virginia, and the loss of the plane in Pennsylvania and the loss of all of those lives, more than…

this Congress needs to focus its attention on the basis for the war in Iraq, why we are there; why that war was carried out; and what were the basic reasons behind it. We were told initially by the administration that there was a…

very few people are surprised that as soon as the Republican Party has control of both Houses of the Congress and the White House they move to destroy Medicare, and that is what this bill essentially will do. It will drive Medicare into…

earlier this evening, one of our Republican colleagues, a very fine and thoughtful gentleman, came to the well here to lament the fact that the dialogue here, the discussion in the House, has become somewhat partisan lately. I have to…

last February the President's Council of Economic Advisors forecast that, as a result of the economic policies of the Bush Administration, there would be 510,000 new jobs generated this year. Here we are on the advent of October; and in…

recently Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts took the floor of the other body and made the observation that the stated reasons of the President for going to war in Iraq were a fraud, that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the war…

Our Federal system reserves to the States all those powers that are not designated to the Federal Government in the Constitution. Ten States have decided that they want to alleviate the pain and suffering of their citizens who may be…

The fact of the matter here, in this particular amendment, is simply this: Are we going to continue to allow the United States Justice Department to stick its nose into the business of 10 sovereign States of this Union who have decided…

this government, our government, derives its just power from the consent of the governed. Those words form the basic founding principle of this Nation: The government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. But in order…

we must stop the Park Service from killing Yellowstone National Park's buffalo. More than any other animal, the American buffalo is a wildlife icon of the United States. The buffalo is the symbol that represents the Department of the…

the national forest system was created nearly a century ago by President Theodore Roosevelt. He said he was creating it for the greatest good, for the greatest number in the long run, and that is something we should not forget. The…

I am a bit mystified by the statement that was just made by my friend and colleague from New York. The Democrat party is not in the majority in this House. We do not control the agenda. That is controlled by the Republican party, and there…

from clean air and water to wetlands and global warming, this is an administration that is determined to ignore the most pressing environmental problems, dismiss good science that draws attention to these problems and undermine our most…

the decision to go to war is the most profound decision that any nation can make. It should be done, of course, judiciously and only with the utmost of care and only as a last resort. This is especially true of democratic republics such as…

I would like to draw to the attention of the Members of the House an action that is about to be taken by the Federal Communications Commission. On June 2, the FCC is going to act on a ruling which in all likelihood will be passed by a vote…

This measure will continue a program that was advanced initially in the 1980's which is bringing about the increasing consolidation of the American Communications System into the hands of fewer and fewer people. For example, as a result of…

I would like to this evening call to the attention of the Members of the House that tomorrow I, along with 22 original cosponsors, will introduce a resolution calling on the Government of Argentina to make public all of its official…