congressional Democrats are so sure that we will win back the Congress in 2006 on the Social Security issue that many have stopped challenging the administration on the war on Iraq: Let us take the war off the table as an issue and focus…

when you carry this along to its conclusion, what we have is a condition where the people in the poorest countries cannot protect their health. So we are looking at their life expectancy beginning to decline, and one of the reasons is…

the administration is closing defense bases here at home and building new bases in Iraq. There is no money to maintain some defense installations here, but there is $270 billion and counting for establishing a permanent presence in Iraq…

instead of bringing our troops home from Iraq, today our majority party is advocating sending billions more to Iraq to keep our troops there indefinitely. Instead of winding down operations in Iraq, today the administration will receive…

has Congress gotten use to the idea of the U.S. being in a war, an occupation in Iraq? Congress endorsed the President's actions over and over again even though those actions were based on misinformation and falsehoods. It has appropriated…

771 days ago, the United States illegally went to war against Iraq. Since then we have lost 1,574 of our finest, and the Iraqi people have lost tens of thousands of innocent civilians to the war. Some of us opposed the war from the start…

all over this country, the American people are troubled by the fast increasing price of gasoline. The oil companies are making billions of dollars in windfall profits while families have had to tighten their budget. While families have…

I rise in support of the Israel amendment. In Cleveland, Ohio, my district, people do not understand why prices vary from street to street. They can drive around and see a gas station will have $2.25 and a couple blocks later it will be…

Well, the gentlewoman has made it possible for me to help and offer this amendment. We can grow our way out of our energy crisis; and farmers growing biomass feedstocks that can be processed locally to supply, in our case, nearby cities…

I enter my statement in the Record in support of the Solis amendment. Mr. Chairman, no one wants an oil refinery in their neighborhood. So in order to force one open, this bill encourages them to be established in neighborhoods with high…

almost half of the bankruptcies in the United States are connected to an illness in the family, whether people had health insurance or not. Middle-class Americans, who had the misfortune of either experiencing a medical emergency…

I am going to be in Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow speaking on education when the President is visiting the Cleveland area to speak on Social Security. Now, the President has alternately asserted there is no Social Security trust fund or it is…

Rome 1993. I knew the City. Except for the machine-gun carrying Carbineri at Rome's Fumicino Airport, and the cars whizzing by me on the autostrada at 150 kilometers per mile, Rome seem strangely familiar. Perhaps it was the ten years…

Canada has officially opted out of the laughably named National Missile Defense System. We should take a lesson from our neighbors. They knew the NMD has a terrible record; 10 highly artificial and carefully scripted flight intercept…

Social Security benefits have steadily increased over the years because they have long been calculated by indexing them to wage increases which on the average go up 3.6 percent a year, so Social Security benefits increase with rising…

I want to join with my African American colleagues in asking and appealing to the American people to understand that HIV/AIDS is devastating to the African-American community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have estimated…

prior to invading Iraq, looking for weapons of mass destruction, this administration looked the other way at illegal shipments of Iraqi oil to Jordan, Syria and Turkey, which earned at least $8.5 billion for Saddam Hussein's regime. Now…

the state of the Union is asleep. This administration cannot account for $9 billion it controlled in Iraq for a 9-month period ending last October. Wake up, America. While $9 billion went unaccounted for, the administration did not have…

I have called for a Federal grand jury investigation of the administration's Coalition Provisional Authority which, according to the U.S. Inspector General, lost track of $9 billion in Iraq that it controlled over a period of 9 months…

today I am sending a letter to Secretary- Designate Rice and Ambassador Negroponte expressing concerns over the Iraq elections that are to take place in just 5 days. It will be impossible to determine the extent to which corruption, voter…

let us not denigrate factual concerns about the Ohio election by dismissing them as simply partisan. This is not about Democrat or Republican votes. It is not about red or blue States or black or white. It is about wrong or right. It is…

this morning we learned the White House wants to not only privatize Social Security but also wants to cut retirees' benefits. Privatization takes money from retirees on Main Street and gives it to the Enrons of Wall Street. Will Wall…

nearly 1,300 brave American men and women have sacrificed their lives in Iraq. Yet the central reasons for the U.S. invasion have fallen apart: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, there is no proof…

the United States must begin to present an exit strategy in Iraq. Bombing the villages to save the villages is not an exit strategy. It is absolutely horrific that as many as 100,000 innocent civilians may have perished in Iraq. Stopping…

Cheney said there was no doubt Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, nuclear capability.