reclaiming my time, think about this: we have a President who is always at the beck and call of his corporate contributors. When it comes time to pass a Medicare bill, it is written by the insurance and the drug companies. When it comes…

the point is that the Bush administration, the Bush's chief economic adviser, Gregory Mankiw, with the President's signature on this economic policy, does not see anything wrong with the direction they want to take this country's…

What is disturbing to me is that in this economic report, as the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio) said, on page 4, signed by President Bush, this economic report put out by the President just this month says that there is nothing wrong…

The key to our Nation's success is that workers share in the wealth they create. They are able to do that because we have a democracy. They are able to do that because we have a relatively strong labor union movement. They are able to do…

reclaiming my time, that means if you live in O'Leary, Ohio, and you have worked in what we used to call in this country traditional manufacturing, not ``Mc manufacturing'' is, I guess, the fast-food restaurant category. I guess there will…

it is clear that either the President needs to change his mind, or we need to change the President. President Bush came to Richfield, Ohio, on Labor Day, and to his credit, he created a job that day. He said he was going to start a new…

We had a trade deficit of about $40 billion a dozen years ago. We have a trade deficit in excess of $40 billion a month now. But more importantly, as the gentleman from Oregon pointed out, what that really means is that we are continuing…

I give credit to the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, who wrote this bill, at least he was honest about it. He said, I sure hope it ends Medicare as we know it. Another prominent…

You know what else? They are concerned about what happens in the election. The President and Karl Rove, the political strategist in the White House understand this bill has not gotten a very good public reception; and the reason it has not…

even though I come from Ohio, I picked up the Los Angeles Times today and just could not believe the headline. It said, ``President Bush Supports Shift of Jobs Overseas.'' ``The loss of work to other countries,'' this is the sub-headline…

today I picked up a newspaper, picked up a Los Angeles Times, and the headline of the Los Angeles Times, I believe the second largest daily paper in the Nation, said, ``Bush Supports Shift of Jobs Overseas.'' The subheadline was, ``The…

one of the producers of the ads did the 2000 George Bush ads, and it was found out after the election that they did this subliminal message on one of those 2000 ads when they were talking about Al Gore in the George Bush campaign where…

Yesterday felt like Groundhog Day. America woke up, got more bad fiscal news from the Bush administration, and predicted years and years of growing Federal budget deficits. We learned this weekend that the $400 billion Bush Medicare plan…

last week President Bush stood in this well and told us that he signed a Medicare bill last month. What he did not tell us was that this bill does not take effect until 2006. What he did not tell us is that this bill gives the insurance…

in last year's State of the Union address, President Bush called Medicare ``the binding commitment of a caring society.'' Last night in his State of the Union address, the President said the Medicare prescription drug bill that was enacted…

President Bush, in his State of the Union a year ago, said, ``Medicare is the binding commitment of a caring society.'' He then promised a prescription drug/Medicare reform bill. The gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), the Republican…

in April 2003, the Bush administration pledged that its jobs and growth package, its Leave No Millionaire Behind Tax Cut Plan, would create 1,836,000 new jobs by the end of 2003, last month. The administration pledged to create 5.5 million…

I saw that article. I like Tom Scully. He came to our committee and he spoke. He is a reasonable, decent guy. I do not accuse him of anything untoward. I do wonder about a system, though, where he announced several months ago he was…

Then they are going to come back in 10 years and say, see, Medicare does not work. Of course it does not work when the insurance company insures you when you are healthy and then taxpayers and Medicare get you when you are old and sick. Of…

It is also, if we look at the context of all of this, the context is the huge, enormous influence that the drug industry has on this body. I mean, the drug industry has a strangle hold on the Republican leadership, pure and simple. They…

President Bush signed the Medicare bill today, ending an ugly legislative process driven by the interests of a constituency near and dear to the Republican leadership in this House. Not America's seniors. I am talking about the…

It is okay to be in a conflict of interest but because our administration is so pro-drug company, we give you the waiver? I wish he would answer some questions about what the waiver is all about, because I do not think the people at home…

this is the people's House, conducting the public's business openly, or at least it used to be the people's House. At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March, the House cut veterans benefits by three votes. At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, House…

How a Department gives a waiver to one guy to do this and not that. I think Mr. Scully is a man of integrity, but I do not think the system is quite right that would allow somebody to look for a job, run this Medicare system that has 40…

it has been a great week for the most influential, the most well-heeled lobbyists in Washington. Earlier in the week the House passed an energy bill which one very prominent leader of this country called the ``no lobbyist left behind''…