We all, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) and I, and all of the speakers we will hear from today, all believe that it is not safe and it is not ethical to create a new human being through cloning. We need to ban that. What we do not…

I applaud the motives of the makers of the amendment. I voted for the measure of the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) last year. I have looked into the issue a lot further since then and now oppose it. Our seniors need safe and…

let me strip this debate down to its essentials and talk about what it is really about. Mr. Chairman, the great religions of the world differ on when and if and under what circumstances a woman should have or it is moral for a woman to…

It is just that those precious moments in the upbringing of a child, as the child begins to communicate, there is a glimmer of recognition of the child, of his siblings, of the world around him or her, and the joy of beginning to sing with…

I rise in support of H.R. 2884, a bill to reauthorize portions of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) through September 30, 2003. EPCA authorizes the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and U.S. participation in the International Energy…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3514 is the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance, and Protection Act. It has 139 bipartisan supporters. Mr. Speaker, I am a member of the Committee on Commerce, and the Committee on Commerce has jurisdiction over…

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to both celebrate and mourn the loss of life of those who carried our freedom and beliefs across the seas aboard the U.S.S. Cole. One of the 17 who died was 35-year-old Richard Costelow who grew up in my county of…

AIDS is clearly the worst epidemic in modern history. It is a tragedy, and it has struck down so many millions of people around the world. But of all of its victims, certainly the children, the newborns, are the most innocent and the ones…

my mother once said to me that no matter how important you think you are, remember that the number of people who come to your funeral will be primarily determined by the weather. It must be a good day today because Mr. Goodling is blessed…

This clearly is, if not the number one issue in America, certainly ought to be. There is still time to resolve this issue. All we need to do is to work with the House and the Senate and the President together and, in fact, we can all be…

The problem is that the Medicare+Choice programs have been ratcheting back their benefits. They have been providing, they used to provide relatively generous prescription drug benefits, but they are pulling back. They are pulling back…

If we take the legislation that we passed and match it to our current program, our PACE program, which by the way is the best program in the whole country, there are, I think, 300,000 low-income seniors in Pennsylvania who receive almost…

if I may, the legislation is ours. I serve on the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Commerce, and it was the gentleman who came to me and said this is a real problem in my area; this is a real serious matter, and we put our heads…

It certainly is an election year. I think the thing some of us find so discouraging is we have a tendency sometimes to take our eye off the ball and remember that these are real people out there. I read a letter from a real constituent…

The point that I was thinking about making right now is that this conversation almost always turns towards the senior beneficiary of Medicare, and the gentleman has frequently in his remarks cojoined the fact that there are seniors and…

And if I may, that is before we even apply the Federal contribution to the actual price of the item. So that 75 is cut in half. And, of course, we pay 100 percent of the remainder for the low-income and for middle-class folks, a half. So…

If I can reclaim time for a moment, the thing that is ironic is that, as we have said, in the history of the Congress, certainly in the last 35-year history of Medicare, it is only the one bill the gentleman and I helped to author that has…

once again, I appreciate that. As the gentleman pointed out, the United States Congress has done a great deal, particularly with the leadership of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Saxton), in reducing the pollution that the United States…

Mr. Chairman, I once heard an old African American woman, much wiser I think on this issue than anyone who has spoken in this Chamber today. She lived through the time when abortion was illegal in the United States. And she said that when…

is the gentleman aware that since 1973 it has been against the law to use one dime of these funds for abortions overseas, that the Helms amendment of 1973 prohibits the expenditure of any of these funds for abortion?

Let us keep the debate honest and talk about fungibility. Let us not use language that implies that these funds can be directly used for abortion.

Mr. Chairman, rigid ideological dogmatic rhetoric always turns logic on its head and always brutalizes the truth. Let me describe reality outside of the realm of such dogmatic rhetoric. In March of this year, I traveled to India and to…

I am very conflicted by the vote on this rule. As has been referenced, I took to the Committee on Rules last night an amendment to amend the amendment of the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) because I have a difference of opinion with…

Mr. Chairman, those of my colleagues who are supporters of this measure really have to vote against the Coburn amendment, and they have to do it for a reason of substance and a reason of process. The substantive reason is that if they…

I would like to read from a letter I received recently from a 70-year-old widow who has been widowed for 14 years. She writes, ``I am in pain daily, and I cannot correct this problem because of financial difficulty. I have stopped taking…