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The Iraq Watch is going to be hard at work. We will be back next week to ask more questions, to seek more information, and to try to better educate our colleagues in the Congress and the American people regarding the challenges of our role…
Reclaiming my time, we know exactly whose fault it was. It is George Tenet. That is what Condoleeza Rice is saying. That is what the Vice President is saying. Everybody's quite willing to blame George Tenet for that information being in…
I can assure the gentleman, as the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt) can, that there was no lack of trying to get that exit strategy from the administration last fall. I wrote letters to the President. I know the gentleman from…
The hammer of truth will be brought down on the anvil of inquiry, and that is our job. It is our challenge here. It is not unpatriotic to ask questions. It is not unpatriotic to seek accountability. It is not unpatriotic to dissent. In…
We are appropriating $29 billion next year for veterans health care. We need $30 billion to meet all of our obligations, our moral obligations, and we are not measuring up, and it is wrong.
Before the gentleman leaves, let me ask him if he has been able to figure out what strategy the President was pursuing last week when he suggested, in the face of the guerilla attacks and ambushes and assassinations of American soldiers…
Given the extraordinary examples that the gentleman has just cited of American generosity to help reconstruct Iraq, does the gentleman think that we are winning the peace in Iraq?
It is staggering. We need a full description and a full setting-forth of the challenge by the President.
Absolutely right. And the great failing I see now is the inability of the current President to explain the costs, the challenges, and the time lines facing us as occupying powers, if you will, in Iraq. The gentleman was there. I would be…
The latest is that reports are now circulating that instead of being used for biological or chemical laboratories, these two trucks were used to make hydrogen for the purpose of filling up the Iraqi weather balloons needed by Iraqi…
Is the gentleman aware that according to reports, the CIA informed the White House of the lack of accuracy of these reports in March of 2002, a full 10 months before the President's State of the Union Address this past January?
It seems to me that what Congress ought to be pushing the administration to focus on in our efforts to create liberty is to create the institutions of liberty first. We cannot have a democratic system in Iraq if they do not have the…
I have the sad task of informing my colleagues that my predecessor, Gus Yatron, passed away unexpectedly early this morning. Gus Yatron dedicated his entire life to public service, first serving as a school director for the Reading School…
The documents do indeed speak for themselves and leave one just no choice but to conclude that Yasser Arafat has directed terror, that he has in the past and he presently is, and the question is for this House, for this country what needs…
Can there be any question about what those payments are authorized for, what the purpose behind them is?
Exactly right. That is a very good picture illustrating the point. What the Israelis seized were anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, rockets, all in complete violation of the Oslo Accord. All there, as our friend, the…
The people we met in Israel on the trip this past weekend all knew about the resolution that the House had passed the day before. It was a remarkable demonstration to me of how much our actions here in the House are followed by the…
There is a lot of oil under the North Slope of Alaska. Right now we can drill in 95 percent of the North Slope of Alaska. We are saying protect 5 percent, the coastal plain of ANWR. There are other opportunities. Seventy-five percent of…
Mr. Speaker, what is this House going to say to Earl and Irene Baker, who came to my town hall meeting and told me about the 21 pills that Earl takes every day and how Irene cannot fill her prescription drugs because she figures her…
Today I congratulate the township of Lower Merion in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on its 100th anniversary.
The legislation before us, Mr. Speaker, is an attempt to stem the flow of weapons technology into Iran by authorizing the President to impose sanctions on nations and individuals that provide this weapons technology to Iran. The sanctions…
I met with a woman from my district last year who reported to me that her husband had become very ill... This bill would do it, and we ought to pass it.
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