Joe Cunningham

Veterans health care, when we add $1.7 billion last year and add $1.36 billion this year over last year's, it is a slight commitment to show that the veterans are important. The medical research in this bill, one may say, why do we have…

no fights, just facts. In 1993, I mentioned that the Democrats raised Social Security taxes. We did away with that. They took every dime out of the Social Security trust fund. Republicans put it into a lockbox. Al Gore was the deciding…

I was not even going to speak on this issue until I heard the Democrat leadership's partisan attacks which has flowed through these Chambers over the last year. When one takes a look at the Democrat leadership and their interest to…

I joined the Labor-HHS committee because it focuses primarily on two issues: one is education, the other is medical research. This century is going to be, I think, not for technology but the most important century for medical research in…

we have heard an example of the liberal left wing of the Democrats. When their leadership talks about we will not pass their bills, no, we will not. We will not pass bills that make bigger government, bigger government control, like they…

I have never heard something so laughable. Are the Democrats so desperate that they have got to spin something that is absolutely not true? Mr. Speaker, I have never heard something so ridiculous. The gentleman may speak of his own…

I would say again, many of my colleagues on the other side, especially the Blue Dog budgets most of us on this side could adopt, but we could not go along with the liberal leadership from the gentleman's party or the White House. As a…

reclaiming my time, in talking about the liberal leadership, many of my colleagues support some of the same things we want to do, including defense. But the leadership along with Clinton-Gore has fought welfare reform, they fought a…

regardless of what both sides are talking about in terms of numbers and fixes, there should be certain principles. The American people are taxed too high, both on the high end and on the low end of the spectrum. In 1993, when my colleagues…

the promise for veterans health care has been 58 years, 58 years. The subvention bill was not written by Duke Cunningham; it was written by my constituents in San Diego, California. I was the originator of this subvention bill. Why…

I live in D.C. and have for some time. I have sat and I have talked to residents, many of them minorities, and many saying to me we need help for years and years and years. When we look at the school systems, we look at the economy, we…

I think a better dialogue would be as to how both sides on this issue could come together. I do not support the amendment. I wish we had a White House that would not walk softly and carry a big stick of candy, and that is either a…

today, on the 26th anniversary of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, I rise to voice my concerns regarding that state's current efforts to gain entrance into the European Union. On Friday, the British Broadcasting Company reported that…

But I would say to my friends, the veterans have served this country, the United States of America, and all the citizens made a promise to keep health care. Subvention is a pilot program and a Band-Aid. TRICARE, FEHBP, we are all working…

one of the things that the other side will try and do as far as smoke and mirrors is they will talk about the President's request. Republicans brought forward the President's budget, even his tax increase. The President made false…

my colleagues will continually bash Ronald Reagan; they will continually say tax breaks for the rich, but it just is not so. They can spend, they can try and rewrite history, but it just will not work. The fact is that the left cannot…

in the case of Ronald Reagan, it is the Congress that controlled spending, not the President. The President talks about the economy and how good it is. He has not passed a single budget since we took over the majority, except in 1993 when…

nice spin from the left. I would tell my colleague that in every case when the Speaker was Newt Gingrich, he voted every single time with the then majority until the gentleman went to the Democrat side.

I will not. The Contract with America the gentleman supported; the gentleman supported impeachment.

reclaiming my time, the White House, violation after violation of things, look at what Secretary Babbitt has done; and we are saying that in those cases then the Government should have to follow the law, and that is the reason I support…

I think this is a good debate. Mr. Chairman, one of the gentlemen says that if we have a plan that gives a judge a better opportunity to look, well, look at the tuna dolphin bill, that passed the House, that passed the Senate, over 300…

previous speakers not only in this amendment but in other amendments have used the term antienvironmental extremists 11 times. Doth us think that there is a little politics here? First of all, we feel that the President, a single…

I have got to oppose the statements of the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey). First of all, the proof is in the pudding right here today. The Democrats controlled this House and Senate almost exclusively for 40 years. Spending is…

once again I find myself up here in support, and I would say to my colleague, the ranking minority member on the committee, in the regards to Archie the Cockroach, which I have right here, in this bipartisan support against this amendment…

Members do not know how good it is to work on a bipartisan basis on an amendment with the other side. Both sides, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter) and my colleagues, have worked…