Youth suicide is an issue that strikes a deeply personal chord for all too many Americans. An intern in my office lost five classmates to suicide, the most in her school's history. This legislation recognizes that the causes of youth…

here we are again debating overtime in the Labor, Health and Human Services bill. I feel like it was just last year when we had this same debate, because we did. Last year I supported a Democratic overtime pay amendment which proposed to…

President Bush has spent a lot of time in my State of Ohio in the last few weeks. He was in Brecksville in my district just this weekend. He comes to Ohio to try to argue for an economic policy that has seen one out of six manufacturing…

But we have lost one sixth of our manufacturing jobs in my State, the State of Ohio. We have lost over 200,000 jobs. In fact, if we look at it, we have literally lost 180 jobs every single day of the Bush administration. They are saying…

It has been a really good year for the drug industry. The pharmaceutical industry is at it again in this body, attempting to undermine U.S. efforts to secure cheaper prescription drugs for millions of Americans. First, the Medicare bill…

I have been here 12 years and heard these same arguments. I look at my State, and we have lost one out of six manufacturing jobs, 190 jobs every day during the Bush administration, and I do not see how it adds up.

Mr. Speaker, the Australia Free Trade Agreement is for the most part a good agreement with a strong U.S. ally. But because it is becoming increasingly clear that the reimportation of prescription drugs from other countries is on the…

For 3 years in this Congress with this President, we have turned our government over to special interest groups. The Medicare bill was written by the insurance industry, the drug industry. Social security privatization legislation was…

The United States, and the global community, can only benefit from the development of bioterrorism countermeasures. By rendering biological attacks less lethal and, therefore, less attractive to would-be terrorists, new countermeasures…

Mr. Chairman, survival of the fittest has its downside. When an antibiotic is used on the bacteria in a person or animal, it may kill some of the bacteria, but it will not kill all of them. The survivors reproduce, propagating these…

Vice President Cheney came to my home State of Ohio last week to try to explain the Bush economic policy, visiting a State with high unemployment, a State that has lost 200,000 jobs since President Bush took office, a State that has lost…

while Congress is working to provide affordable pharmaceuticals to American citizens through reimportation legislation, the Bush administration is working to undermine those efforts. We will soon vote on the United States-Australia Free…

Last Thursday was a bad day for democracy in the House of Representatives. Adding to their laundry list of legislative arm twisting, House Republicans once again bent democracy to fit their needs by holding a vote open for 38 minutes until…

It has been a bad week in Washington. Adding to their laundry list of legislative arm twisting, House Republicans yesterday once again bent democracy to fit their needs by holding a traditional 15-minute vote open for 38 minutes until they…

Vice President Cheney was in Cleveland this week trying to explain the President's economic policy to a State which has lost one-sixth of its manufacturing jobs since President Bush and Vice President Cheney took office, a State that has…

I would like to tell today the tale of two visits. President Bush last year visited Canton, Ohio, visited his friends at the Timken Company. John Kerry today visited Canton, Ohio. I would like to tell you a little bit about each visit…

the fact is this quarter trillion dollars of trade we had a trade surplus with Mexico before NAFTA that is now a turned into a trade deficit. We had a small trade deficit with China when the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) came to…

as a new generation is being created in Iraq and Afghanistan, Republicans are underfunding programs that are vital to our Nation's veterans. The Bush administration has tried to increase the cost of health care for veterans which would…

President Bush again was in Ohio this past week to try to justify his economic program to try to sell it to the residents of my State. Since President Bush took office, one out of six manufacturing jobs has disappeared from my State…

last night on the floor of this Chamber there were two interesting 1-hour presentations, as many of you remember. One was several colleagues from the Republican side, if I recall from Texas, Illinois, Arizona, my State of Ohio, West…

I do not hold any ill will personally toward any of these leaders in our country whose values and positions and policies are so different from what, obviously, the four of us believe this country should pursue; but when you hear the…

That is a mistake that neither the Pentagon or the President has acknowledged, even though we know dozens if not more men and women were killed because they did not have body armor, because the Humvees were not up-armored with the kind of…

But when they put themselves out in front of the public and they hear these stories, they hear about someone making $22,000 a year who has just had their meager health insurance scaled back even further; who is facing increased gasoline…

they want Medicare they can depend on, they want decent public education, they want affordable prescription drugs, they want a fair tax system that does not give tax breaks to the wealthy and leave them wanting for pennies, if that; they…

a group of Members from Congress from Ohio have come to the floor regularly over the last 3 years, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Jones), and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland); and we have…