I am pleased that in 5 minutes, the House Committee on International Relations is going to have a hearing about the post-Iraq situation. Since there are only 48 days left until the transfer of power, it is about time. Sadly, it is about 2…

this last month has been a hard month: Hard for our soldiers in Iraq as we lost more lives than any previous month; it was hard on the people of that troubled country; and it was hard on the American public as citizens of conscience and…

this Resolution falls far short of the mark of adequately expressing the concerns I've heard from my Oregon constituents and that I have myself. Its failure to include a mechanism to hold Congress accountable and ensure that we do our job…

Mr. Speaker, it is sad that the resolution before U.S. today is as close as we can get to having a full and open debate on the tragedy that continues to unfold in Iraq. Yes, this is about failure of leadership in the Department of Defense…

The issue has never been whether or not our troops could win a war. They are the finest fighting men and women in the world, and they can win a war. The issue is the mismanagement of this administration, their inability to win the peace…

as an American, I am ashamed and disgusted by the horrendous unspeakable acts at Abu Ghraib prison caught in pictures and displayed around the world. The impact of these images is devastating precisely in the part of the world where we are…

recent revelations about the abuses in Iraq illustrate problems not just with United States policy but with how Congress deals with its responsibilities. Yes, there are problems with the Department of Defense, starting with Secretary of…

I find my friend from Pennsylvania's commentary somewhat ironic because all independent observers agree that after three rounds of massive tax cuts, we are getting very little benefit for the magnitude of the costs involved. On our side of…

Friday marked the farewell to ``Morning Edition's'' Bob Edwards. PBS's ``Morning Edition'' has become the signature program for public radio across America, giving expression to things about which Americans care the most: war and peace…

The hang-up? The President's threat to veto a bill that is not a 10 percent cut in transportation funding over the next 6 years, even though his own Department of Transportation says that we should be spending half again as much as he…

Fixing the ``marriage penalty'' and increasing the earned income tax credit (EITC) for low-income families are important and long-overdue steps toward tax fairness. I support both measures but wish that Congress had made reducing the tax…

the future of our country is rooted in respect for, and understanding of, the United States Constitution. On May 1, more than 1,200 students from across the United States will gather in Washington, D.C. to compete in the national finals of…

I hope that I will see the time here in Congress where the Anacostia becomes a model for the country in the backyard of Congress about how to do it right after, as she says, decades of abuse.

with the approach this week of Earth Day, that will soon be followed by a flood of American planners coming into our city for their annual conference, I think it is an appropriate time for us to step back and think about what the Federal…

I would just conclude with two points, because I agree with what the gentleman is saying, it resonates with me, and I am quite confident that it resonates on the part of most Americans who are dealing with this as a kitchen table issue…

Would the gentleman comment about what happens with the massive amount of extra Social Security that we are collecting. As the gentleman knows, Mr. Greenspan famously of late suggested that we might have to cut Social Security benefits…

Talking about locking us into $500 billion up to maybe improve up to $350 or $370 billion and then trailing off again to that half trillion dollar level, what, in fact, if I understand what the gentleman is saying, that we are consuming…

I think he has documented simple declarative sentences, and it does not have to be this hard. It is very clear that we are on a path here to have a massive increase in the debt tax. We are, in fact, abandoning principles that some of our…

I sincerely hope that we will be able to have an ``aye'' vote for this motion to recommit to keep faith with the broadest coalition that we have seen supporting American transportation, allow not just an empty gesture, but a House standing…

we have extolled the leadership of our committee chair and ranking member and the subcommittee chair and ranking member. I think that is appropriate because they have taken a difficult task and have given us a good bill. But it falls far…

this House over the next 2 days is going to be debating the single most important environmental and jobs bill of the session, the reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act. It is unfortunate that we are not going to have the…

this week, the House will be considering the most important economic and environmental bill of this session. It is the reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act. It has been fascinating to watch the broadest coalition in memory be…

I voted against this legislation as it does not seem fair to cut off federal funds to institutions that have policies against allowing recruiters on campus from employers that have an open policy of discrimination. We should not be…

the budget process in the House of Representatives is a casualty of the increasingly extreme partisanship of the Republican leadership and their obsession with reducing taxes for those who need it the least. All the deep concern about…

Mr. Chairman, the budget is an important statement of our values, and I am proud to support the Democratic budget crafted by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) because our values are a lower deficit, more direct services to…