Patrick Kennedy

This proposal just violates the common sense test. It would be one thing for the majority party to offer scholarships, once the public education system was fully funded, once we fully funded Head Start, once we reduced the teacher/pupil…

Mr. Speaker, in this House, where power is sort of compared to who serves on what committees, who has more power, I think there was not anybody in this House that was more powerful than Walter Capps. I guess at this time, when we have lost…

For a range of public health and safety, national security, and taxpayer reasons, we strongly urge you vote to delete this provision from the Fiscal Year 1998 Treasury-Postal Service-General Government Appropriations bill. Supporters of…

Mr. Speaker, the reason I am going to be voting against this tax cut is that I do not think it is good public policy for this country. I came in in the 104th Congress and I heard a lot from my Republican colleagues how they wanted to…

I hate that label because you know what, we are having to tax in 1993 to pay for all the deficit spending. What the gentleman's party is all about is borrow and spend.

is the gentleman saying that the top 5 percent get four times the tax cut as the bottom 60 percent?

It effects $95 billion in tax cuts, 395,000 seniors going into Medicare Select, MSA's, all the cuts that are going to ensue, 15 percent in goals cuts, veterans, Social Security Administration, all that is to come down the road. All I am…

It is imperative that we correct Cyprus' situation as a divided state. The people of Cyprus are divided into two states ruled by two governments. The Greek Cypriots in the south are ruled by the Republic of Cyprus, erected in 1960 when…

The fact is, we can talk to any pulmonary physician, any doctor that takes care of people with asthma, emphysema, any kind of pulmonary disorder, and they will tell us, when any region of the country is in noncompliance they see a…

This amendment treats native Americans as if they are criminals, and it is dead wrong. I ask my colleagues to join me in voting against the Visclosky-Istook amendment and upholding the Constitution of the United States, which we were sworn…

Would the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Istook] like to put in an amendment, bill commissaries at our military bases? Because it seems to me they are unfair competition, too. Commissaries in my district are charging well under the market…

I want to thank both my colleagues from Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I realize the difficult choices the chairman and the members of the committee are faced with, but I want to discuss with the gentleman the fact that this bill provides no…

I think what this reconciliation bill really does is it shows where the majority party, the Republican party's, true priorities are. Clearly, their priorities are not with our Nation's senior citizens, who are now going to get the cold…

While the senior citizens do not get the necessary health insurance, as my colleague, the gentleman from Oregon, just mentioned; while children do not get the necessary health insurance they need, and while legal immigrants still go…

let us see what the appeasement strategy of MFN has gotten us. On military aggression China sales of weapons to Iran are well-documented. But even worse than being well-documented, China defends their sale of weapons to Iran. We have heard…

I would like to say that we accept the Bereuter amendment. We do not condone violence on any side. I would like to follow up with a few comments with respect to the points made by the gentleman from Nebraska. That is, having visited East…

I would just like to say there are countless stories. Unfortunately the ICRC cannot tell them to us because it would abrogate their mandate to be an impartial, as my colleagues know, observer and support to human rights in the countries…

I clearly think that justice needs to be done, but of course there is no justice in East Timor because people can be summarily arrested and tortured without legal representation. I do acknowledge that the gentleman is correct that in the…

I just would like to commend the gentleman for his own visit to East Timor. There is nothing like seeing it in person, to speak to Bishop Belo in East Timor, to visit with the people as the gentleman has, that gives one the strong feelings…

Let us recall that it was a discriminatory welfare reform bill that cut $24 billion out of legal immigrants' assistance, $24 billion that the legal immigrants of this country pay taxes for, far in excess of what they ever get back in human…

Mr, Chairman, we are so glad to have the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] finally acknowledging that these are legal immigrants who should not be cut off assistance. We are so glad that he has finally come around and supported this bill…

Reclaiming my time, their parents, their cousins, what is the gentleman from Florida saying; that their aunt, and let us say they are over in Bosnia, that their mother or father, or their uncle or aunt who is back in the United States is…

this amendment, instead of preventing a government shutdown, actually shuts down the democratic process. Basically, what it says is the majority can choose to pass those appropriations bills, those programs that they want to make sure are…

Now we have it, folks, now we have it. Remember we were just hearing a few moments ago about these particularly heinous crimes that we needed to lock these kids up for good, wave them into the adult system because the system needed to be…

I have to say at the outset how dismayed I have been with the votes that we have just had. I would say to the gentleman from Florida that we might as well scrap the whole juvenile justice system, we might as well do that, because picking…