the company from which Vice President Cheney, the sitting Vice President of the United States, the company from which he continues to draw $13,000 a month, Halliburton, is back in the headlines. The latest example of impropriety from the…

about 170 or so years ago, John Quincy Adams came to the House floor night after night reading letters from his constituents because the conservative leaders of the House of Representatives in those days passed a rule prohibiting banning…

Deborah of Akron, Ohio, writes, ``Please do not give $87 billion to President Bush. He and his advisors did not plan well for the rebuilding of Iraq.'' I think she is talking about the Kevlar jackets, the body armor that simply was not…

In April, almost every Member of the House, myself included, voted $60 billion for our effort in Iraq. Unfortunately, since April that $60 billion has simply not been used well. We failed to protect and supply our troops adequately. We…

What is it about Republicans and Medicare? There is always some Rube-Goldberg idea they have to change the public health system that has lifted millions of Americans out of poverty for the last 38 years, that has helped America's elderly…

165 years ago, conservatives in this House of Representatives passed a rule banning the discussion and debate of slavery in the United States House of Representatives. In those days, former President, then Congressman, John Quincy Adams…

about 160 years ago, Congressman and former President John Quincy Adams came to the House floor night after night, week after week to read letters from constituents, most of them women who did not have the right to vote in those days. He…

The National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Reauthorization Act offers significant improvements to a very successful public health initiative. Tragically, Americans in need of lifesaving bone marrow transplants often face daunting odds. In…

I rise in support of the Animal Drug User Fee Act. H.R. 1260... builds on a successful program for fee-funded expedited review of new human drug applications... We have done not quite as good a job on expediting the approval of generic…

the economy in my part of the country continues to drift; yet Congress and the President continue to fiddle. Three and a half million jobs lost since President Bush took office. Two and a half million manufacturing jobs have vanished, one…

160 or so years ago, former President John Quincy Adams, then a Congressman, came to the House floor and shared with Members of Congress letters from his constituents, mostly from women, who at that time could not vote. In those days, the…

in 1838, John Quincy Adams, as a former President, came to this floor as a Member of the House of Representatives. In those days the conservatives in this Congress passed a rule banning the discussion of slavery on the House floor…

in 1838 a former President, John Quincy Adams, was a Member of this House of Representatives. Congress in those days, conservatives in Congress, had passed a House rule saying that slavery, believe it or not, could not be debated or…

140 years or so ago, former President John Quincy Adams came to the House floor and read letters from his constituents about slavery and about the abolitionists because the House actually passed a rule in 1838 saying that Congress could…

a study released by the House Committee on the Budget staff concludes that the cost of the Iraq war and the Iraq occupation could easily reach $417 billion over the next decade. That is $17 billion more than the President has proposed for…

One fourth of all Medicare beneficiaries live in rural areas, and they are getting the short end of the stick. Rural hospitals are closing, and there are not enough rural hospitals to begin with. Twenty-five percent, as I said, 25 percent…

165 years ago the U.S. House of Representatives passed a rule to ban discussion, debate, printing of any information or discussion of the issue of slavery. As a result, former President John Quincy Adams, who was elected to the House of…

I stand also to honor Larry Doby. I saw Larry Doby after his career in Cleveland for the White Sox had finished. My dad took me as a 6-year-old kid to see Larry Doby, and I saw him play then and met him later for a moment when he threw out…

Two days ago developing nations walked out of the World Trade Organization meeting, exposing irreconcilable differences between poorer developing countries and the U.S., the European Union, and Japan. Rather than dealing with the still…

I stand in support of the motion which instructs conferees to abandon the privatization provisions in the House prescription drug bill. Under H.R. 1, Medicare would end as we know it. Medicare would end in 7 years. In 7 years Medicare…

we have seen little press coverage in the United States of the World Trade Organization before its ministerial beginning this week in Cancun, Mexico. But around the globe, the WTO's 5th Ministerial is a big story. The divide between WTO…

I have never seen the treatment of veterans that this House of Representatives has given. It is three strikes and you are out. First of all, this President and the Republican majority have cut the prescription drug benefit to veterans…

about a century and a half ago, a little longer than that, the House of Representatives passed a rule banning, prohibiting the discussion of slavery in the U.S. House of Representatives. In those days John Quincy Adams, former President…

165 years ago in this House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams came to the floor of the House to share letters from his constituents, letters which allowed him to speak about an issue that the House rules prohibited him from speaking…

165 years ago the late 1830s, Congress passed a rule prohibiting the use of the word ``slavery'' in the Chamber of this House, prohibiting debate about the Nation's largest blemish, the Nation's largest embarrassment, the institution of…