Mr. Chairman, it is ironic that the gentleman from California (Chairman Thomas) calls this amendment the access amendment. It is also disingenuous. This amendment would reduce access to health insurance, not increase it. The gentleman from…

some health plans systematically obstruct, delay and deny care. That is a fact. Earlier this year, Republicans and Democrats negotiated a bill that contains the minimum protections necessary to get health insurance back on track…

In 1942, a standard was set of 50 parts per billion. Science in those days recognized that arsenic was dangerous, they recognized it was a toxic substance. We all knew that. We have seen the play and the movie. In 1942, when arsenic was…

reclaiming my time, to whom will the Export-Import Bank be responsible in offering its findings?

Mr. Chairman, in developing countries, tuberculosis kills more than 2 million people a year, 1 person every 15 seconds. In India alone, 1,100 people die from tuberculosis every day. Tuberculosis is the greatest infectious killer of adults…

I would again ask the House support of this amendment. The House has moved in the right direction in tuberculosis funding over the last 4 years. The House of Representatives and the Senate and the President by signing the legislation in…

Mr. Chairman, on December 19, 2000, the Export-Import Bank approved an $18 million loan guarantee to modernize and improve production at Benxi Iron and Steel, China. The Department of Commerce has found Benxi's dumping margin on hot rolled…

on June 13 of this year, a bill was introduced that would give President Bush fast track authority essentially to extend the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, to all of Latin America. Supporters of fast track argue that the U.S…

Mr. Speaker, let us turn to a recent statement by President Bush on trade sanctions. Calling sanctions a "moral statement," President Bush ordered stricter enforcement of the U.S. trade embargo and greater support for the country's…

Mr. Speaker, a year ago corporate CEOs flocked to the Hill to lobby for increased trade with China. They talked about access to 1.2 billion Chinese customers, but their real interest was in 1.2 billion Chinese workers. CEOs tell us that…

Prescription drug companies consistently depend on one argument and one argument only, to defend charging U.S. consumers two and three and four times higher prices in the U.S. than they do in other developed countries. The one argument…

I ask my colleagues to speak to a physician or to a nurse or to a hospital administrator or to a medical researcher about this problem of antibiotic resistance. Every one of them will tell you that they know of cases, they have seen cases…

I live on Lake Erie and appreciate the lake for its natural beauty. But Lake Erie is far more than a pretty backdrop. Ohioans rely on the lake for our region's economic well-being. We rely on Lake Erie to ship goods, to provide us with…

let us get down to basics. Some health plans systematically obstruct, delay and deny care. Some health plans provide excuses instead of coverage. The bipartisan Patients' Bill of Rights has enough teeth in it to deter health plans from…

President Bush's decision to open the border to Mexican trucks is wrong. A report released on May 8th from the Department of Transportation's inspector general showed the U.S. Border Patrol can only inspect 1 percent, 46,000 of the 4.5…

as we approach the 100th day of the Bush presidency, we have seen history made. President Bush just may have compiled the worst environmental record in the shortest time of any President ever. Let us run through the milestone of the Bush…

On May 20 of last year, Chen Shui-bian was sworn in as the President of Taiwan. This was a historic event, the first major transfer of power from one political party to a rival political party in Chinese or Taiwanese history. Mature…

the threat of tuberculosis is spreading rapidly throughout the developing world, and ultimately in this country. TB is the greatest infectious killer of adults worldwide. More than one-third of African AIDS victims actually end up, in the…

Last week, Mr. Speaker, the Wall Street Journal reported on some cozy deals between nonprofit medical research institutes and for-profit companies. It works this way: a nonprofit institute wins millions in research dollars from the…

Mr. Speaker, here in Congress, we stand together in a commitment toward the spread of democratic ideals and the improvement of human rights. But as we have helped encourage the growth of democracy, many American corporations promote…

Addiction is the number one killer in the United States. As it happens, the substance that lends addiction that distinction is not heroin but tobacco. Tobacco is responsible for 400,000 deaths a year. Regardless of the substance, though…

Mr. Speaker, last Saturday I went to Nicaragua with the National Labor Committee and visited workers in a neighborhood called Tipitapa. These workers work in a Taiwanese-owned company, Chentex. They sew blue jeans. They make 21 cents for…

Mr. Chairman, the threat of tuberculosis is spreading rapidly through the developing world. TB is the greatest infectious killer of adults worldwide. It is the biggest killer of young women. It kills 2 million people per year. Over more…

This amendment fulfills a simple objective. It helps consumers decide for themselves whether prescription drug prices are fair. As it stands now, consumers know what they pay to a pharmacy for a drug, but they do not know what the…

Amendment No. 37 offered by Mr. Brown of Ohio: Insert before the short title the following title: TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 901. None of the amounts made available in this Act for the Food and Drug Administration may be…