to shift gears for a moment, Vice President Cheney came to my State, to Dayton, Ohio, to defend the President's economic record. In Ohio, one out of six manufacturing jobs has been lost since President Bush took office; 300,000 people in…

last week, Vice President Cheney was in Dayton, Ohio, to try to argue for the President's economic budget plan, to try to justify the economic devastation that his administration's policies have wreaked on the American people. In Ohio…

I hear my friends on the other side of the aisle talk about the Medicare bill. This was a bill that the President told us cost $400 billion. Yet people in the department who were not allowed to tell Congress had told the White House it…

The fact is, our budget has $800 million in Medicare more than their budget. Their budget does a much better job of taking health care, Medicare dollars and shoveling them to insurance company HMOs. The President said it was only $14…

President Bush was in my home State of Ohio in Cleveland near my district a week or so ago trying to justify his economic policy. Ohio has lost 300,000 jobs since President Bush took office. That is 2,000 jobs a week, 260 jobs every day…

the $87 billion, first of all, I voted to equip the troops in Iraq in the first vote. When the Bush administration failed with enough money in that budget to provide safe drinking water, to provide body armor, when the administration…

if the President's Medicare prescription drug bill is so good, why does the Bush administration have to sell it so hard? The Bush administration has already used 13 million tax dollars to spend on selling this prescription drug bill, this…

I think it is intriguing what the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen) is saying about the whole Medicare structure and how my friends on the other side of the aisle and President Bush, in large part at the behest of the insurance industry…

I suggest to my Republican colleagues that they meet with families of the men and women who are serving in Iraq, something many of us in this institution have done. They will learn how badly this administration has supplied our troops…

if the Republican Medicare bill is so good, why do they have to sell it so hard? That is a question I have been asking myself lately. I bet it is a question the American people are starting to ask too. When AARP boss Bill Novelli came out…

President Bush came to Cleveland near my district last week to try to defend his economic policies. This is a President who will be the first President since Herbert Hoover who has seen a net loss of jobs during his term. Ohio has lost 3…

Yesterday President Bush made a campaign trip to Cleveland to speak to small business people to explain his economic policy and to try to answer why Ohio has lost 300,000 jobs in the last 3 years; to try to explain why Ohio has lost…

the President flew Air Force 1 to Cleveland today to campaign in my home State of Ohio, talking with 700 or 800 female small business owners. While the President came and talked about small business and job creation and all that he wants…

the President last week delivered the Central American Free Trade Agreement to this Congress as part of his economic plan to grow the economy. What we have seen from the President's economic plan, which consists of two basic solutions, are…

2 weeks ago, President Bush sent to Congress this Central American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement that would expand NAFTA to six countries in Central America. He plans later to send to Congress an agreement called the Free Trade Area…

Under the Bush tax plan, a millionaire in this country got a $93,000 tax cut, for someone on the average making $1 million in this country. Alan Greenspan, the President's guy on the Federal Reserve, yesterday said in order to pay for our…

I do not understand what that means. I appreciate the Speaker's comments. So if the Vice President said something and did another, I may say that; but if he said something and did another, I cannot say that he lied about it?

We are spending about 1.5 billion taxpayer dollars in Iraq every week, about $1.5 billion every week in Iraq. Some of it is military, some of it is construction, a whole host of activities in Iraq. Not nearly enough of that money goes…

I think it is pretty offensive that the Vice President is still receiving $3,000 a month from a company which is getting billions of dollars in unbid contracts and he is telling us he has severed ties with that company. I guess I will not…

all of us now are familiar with the economic report of the President of the United States. It is the report put out by the chief economic adviser for the President. It is signed by George Bush on page 4, signed by the chairman of the…

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…

as President Bush makes his decision about sending troops to Haiti, I wish that he would look at Haiti's history and would look at the history of our relationship with Haiti. 210 years ago, Haiti was a nation as wealthy as the 13 Colonies…

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, 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 answer to that is pretty obvious; but what is interesting, I remember standing on this floor 10 years ago with David Bonior, who was the real leader on these trade issues in Congress years ago, and they promised in those days with…