Robert Weygand

4 years ago Paul and Judy from Warwick, Rhode Island, retired hoping that they would have a great retirement with a great pension. They are now spending about $8,350 a year for prescription drugs. They want a plan that will cover them…

We concur 150 percent that we need to have a national energy policy that includes not only production; it requires conservation, and it requires capacity in various parts of this country for diesel, for home heating oil, for a host of…

we would hope so. But maybe we need a little bit more capacity to do so. Actually, in the Midwest this past year, past January and February, their increases were about 10 to 25 cents a gallon, where we were seeing 78 cents a gallon, simply…

It is not only with home heating oil. It is also with regard to diesel, and it is also with regard to energy conservation and weatherization, the program we talked about earlier. We need to have it, but we need this amendment now; and I…

while I am in support of H.R. 4365, the Child Health Research and Prevention Amendments, this bill should not be on the floor today under the suspension of the rules--where no member can offer an amendment to strengthen and improve this…

It is time that we recognize the contribution of the Hmong and pass this legislation.

I am rising to oppose this resolution and this piece of legislation simply because we have not set our priorities straight. In this bill, the Republicans have determined that their priority is a $175 billion tax cut. They do not hide that…

I come before you today to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Over a period of nine years, more than one million Armenians were systematically persecuted, expelled, and displaced from their homeland in eastern Turkey. The horrific shadows of…

The Northeast has traditionally been a geographically hard location for much transportation of resources, like home heating oil and gasoline. We also have a very older style of architecture which often causes us to have very inefficient…

I offered the amendment, I offered the budget amendment in the committee that actually would provide for the prescription drug benefit. Nowhere in our amendment, nowhere in our resolution, did we require this program to begin in 2003. My…

I rise proudly in recognition of the 179th anniversary of Greek Independence and for the common democratic heritage shared by Greece and the United States. The struggle and victory of the Greek people against their Ottoman oppressors…

In 1965, this Congress took a bold move in policy. It set forth a program called Medicare, because the highest costs that were encountered by our seniors was the hospital stays. Today, 35 years later, the highest costs that are being…

I rise today to stress my congratulations and sincere thanks to a good friend, Walter Cryan, who is retiring from a 35-year career in broadcast journalism. Walter will be deeply missed. This great man, whom we have watched as anchor on…

since 1975 when Indonesia invaded East Timor, the people of East Timor have been struggling for their independence. Last month, they took a courageous step in that direction. I therefore strongly support this resolution and urge my…

I think it is a disaster and a catastrophe that veterans, after having served and provided us with great service for many, many years, that unfortunately we do not sometimes provide the necessary honor guard at their burial.

how many times have we heard about a woman being denied to designate her OB-GYN doctor as her primary care physician? How many times have we heard about patients being denied emergency room care because an HMO bureaucrat has said no to the…

I rise today in somber recognition of the beginning of the Armenian genocide. This horrific tragedy claimed the lives of over one million Armenians in a nine-year campaign of systematic persecution, expulsion, and violence, and displaced…

It is incredibly important, not only for the second district, but for Rhode Island's economy, that the Quonsett Point Naval Air Station turn into the fulfilled dreams of a commerce and port facility.

twenty-three short months ago, I stood in the well of this House to take the oath of office. At that time, I could not imagine that during my first term I would be asked to consider the impeachment of the President of the United States. In…

About two months ago, Mr. Speaker, I rose with 30 of my Democratic colleagues to support the Republican request for an inquiry. I did so because I really had grave reservations about what the President had done. I truly believed that there…

Yesterday evening the United States launched an attack on Iraq. It is unfortunate that we were forced into such an action. I support the decision to use military force and offer my unequivocal support to the men and women of our armed…

Last year we made a horrible mistake in passing a budget that included an interim payment system that was intended to take away fraud and abuse from wasteful agencies, but it also did a terrible thing. It took the most efficient and…

I believe that, as written, we cannot ensure that U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries will get the safeguards they deserve therefore, I will be voting against granting the president fast-track authority and urge my colleagues to…

I rise in support of the freshman bill today, Mr. Chairman, not in hostility or disappointment with the Meehan-Shays bill but clearly to identify what we think is most important, and, that is, the atmosphere of unity that we have here…