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Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4492, introduced by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula), would amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for certain National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes. The…
I believe it is important, despite this time of year and the pending political season, to understand that it is important not to politicize but at the same time to point out genuine differences of opinion that may exist because, after all…
I rise in support of the Tancredo amendment because facts are stubborn things. Allegations, no matter how offensive, no matter how predictable from some in this House, have a way of being displaced by facts. The fact is federalism is…
It is interesting as we take a look at our efforts to embrace a pro-growth economic agenda centered on this one basic truth that the money that comes into the government via taxation does not belong to the government. It belongs to the…
Mr. Speaker, I rise with the formidable challenge in 2 minutes to convey the thoughts and prayers of Arizonans and Americans as we remember our 40th President. While it is true that Ronald Reagan was a son of Illinois and a Governor of…
I rise really more in sorrow than in anger to see the headline in today's Roll Call newspaper, the senior Member from the other side of the aisle now calls our war effort in Iraq 'unwinnable.' Mr. Speaker, our troops in uniform do not wear…
Mr. Speaker, good people can disagree, but it is important to take a look at what we are doing with this legislation. The first thing we are doing is actually strengthening Medicare and preparing it for the 21st century, for the influx of…
There is much to praise in this bill; and yet as this legislation came together in conference, an indignity has been thrust upon this body and the legislative branch of government. What we witness tonight, my colleagues, is the triumph of…
I am concerned, as are many of our colleagues, about the out-of-pocket costs to U.S. soldiers participating in the Rest and Recuperation program for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Once soldiers arrive at BWI, it is…
I certainly again welcome my friend from Ohio to this Chamber. I appreciate honest, honest differences of opinion. But to somehow say that a head of household earning $10,000 a year who can receive in the mail a $4,000 check, to somehow…
Nobody said the working poor do not pay taxes. What we said was we are offering help already, and to somehow willfully blind ourselves to the case of the head of household making $10,000 a year getting a refundable earned income tax credit…
Mr. Speaker, I guess another technique in debate is to deliberately misunderstand some assertions on the floor. In listening to the rather heated and personal comments from my friends, and righteous indignation, I would say, number one, we…
I believe if we embrace commonsense existing policies, we can get this done. And as the House has respectfully rejected this motion to instruct on numerous occasions, and I appreciate the gentleman's argument, but I believe we will move…
Mr. Speaker, when a prescription is written by a physician, there is not an inquiry as to partisan affiliation or political persuasion. A decision is made that a medicine is needed. The question tonight in this House is how best can that…
Mr. Speaker, let me thank my neighbor from Utah, first of all, for both of his votes on tax relief. That is perhaps the most compelling testimony we have received tonight. It is a bit curious that we diverge on what is possible. I believe…
Mr. Speaker, I do welcome my friend from Louisiana to this House and the 108th Congress. I look forward to working with him in a spirit of bipartisanship. I thank him for his first vote for tax relief and again would point out the four…
Quite to the contrary of what my friends assert, it is the opinion of this majority that the money we are talking about belongs to the American people, wherever they line up on the socio-economic scale. If you pay income taxes, you will…
And certainly we saw tonight part of his legislative domain because when one does not have the facts on his side, it is important to argue atmospherics. And we all heard about the genuine intent of the Republican Party and all of these…
again, as we come to the well this evening, we see a very vast difference in our visions of health care and visions of America. Our friends on the left who later tonight will offer a $1 trillion government command-and-control approach to…
Popular representation, Mr. Speaker, in our constitutional Republic is a wonderful thing. It has led some to say that the preceding speaker in the well would make a good President. It has led others to say that the preceding speaker in the…
I would just simply pause at this juncture, knowing that some of the atmospherics that are at work today, I would just, Mr. Speaker, ask my colleagues to stop and think about the legislation at hand and what other tactics may come into…
Indeed, Mr. Speaker, one of our leading news weeklies, on its cover, asserted just the other day ``They Don't ``make Democrats Like They Used to.'' And that is true. Forty years ago, Jack Kennedy said a rising tide lifts all boats. He said…
the fact is what happened in that last fire eliminated 100,000 acres of habitat to the Mexican spotted owl. So I would suggest to my friend, rather than any misguided notion on the motives on this side, I am actually working to protect the…
From my perspective, having represented rural Arizona in the Congress of the United States, having had the Rodeo-Chedeski fire burn hundreds of thousands of acres, Mr. Speaker, I bring to the floor a photo that is worth a thousand words of…
His name is Chris Newton, and today as he puts on his cap and gown, he will take a significant step forward not only for himself, but also for the Pappas School for Homeless Children in Phoenix. Mr. Speaker, Chris Newton spent the bulk of…
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