Joe Cunningham

the gentlewoman well knows that I am a champion for medical research. I have got a goal. My daughter scored a perfect 1600 on her SATs this year as a senior at Torrey Pines. She is going to intern in cancer research at NIH this summer. I…

I was a teacher and a coach both in high school and in college. I can talk articulation agreements. I also know the value of assisted education. The gentlewoman and I have worked together before on education matters, Pell Grants and the…

In 1993, they had the highest tax possible. They stole every dime out of the Social Security trust fund, even the gas tax. Does one think they put it in a transportation fund? Absolutely not. They put it in the general fund so they could…

I would like to just re-edify that this bill increases education, if we include Head Start, $2 billion. There is no one wanting to take education away from kids. It increases it $2 billion over last year if we include Head Start. If we…

we went through this drill in the subcommittee, the same 10 amendments, the same increase in every single one of them, just to show that Republicans want to cut. We have increased, including Head Start, education $2 billion, increased over…

It is well known that people have a right to either support national security or they do not. That does not make them a socialist. A difference of opinion does not make them categorized by a political spectrum. But over a period of time…

The words that I state are factual. The Progressive Caucus is listed under the Democrat Socialists of America, their Web page.

I stand corrected. And in that they are listed under the Democrat Socialists of America that want to cut defense by 50 percent.

I reclaim my time. Two classic examples. The helicopters that we lost in Kosovo, the pilots were not trained. They did not get trained in night goggles. They did not get trained in combat wielded aircraft. Captain O'Grady that was shot…

The supplemental is important. We have over 21 ships that are tied up to the pier that cannot go anywhere, and we are going below that 300-ship Navy. Yet, there are some people on that side of the aisle that would even cut defense in an…

I read in a magazine where sharks had literally been caught, the fin taken off, and then the sharks dumped back into the water still alive. I am a sportsman. I love to hunt and fish. But I also like management and preservation, and I do…

people are split on both sides of this, but I would like to relay a story. Hall Rogers and some of my Democrat colleagues went to Hanoi. We spoke to the Communist Chinese Prime Minister. I asked him, Mr. Prime Minister, why do you not get…

I understand that. But I want to tell you, if we jump off into this, we may prevent in the future with this commission looking at what we could do to help everybody, not just the people that live next to a hospital. And that is my goal. I…

I want to use part of the subvention in whatever we go forward with. But my fear is if we go ahead with this, we may prevent an overall support for a bill that is going to help all veterans. I want to tell you something. We told you that…

I take a back seat to no one as far as veterans and trying to help them, whether it is FEHBP, subvention, or other programs. I fought for their COLAs and I fought for their funding. I am a veteran. I am a combat veteran. I have health care…

the bill that my friend, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), was talking about with regard to subvention was written in San Diego by my veterans. It was actually written before I became a Member of Congress in 1990, and we support…

First of all, there are no better committees that one can serve on than the authorization or appropriations defense committee. Once we get to the floor, that is different, because there are those people that do not support national…

I strongly support a permanent ban on the tax of the Net. We need to free the Net. If we look at the Internet, e-commerce and technology today, it has stimulated the economy. There is an explosion of the stimulated economy. In the year…

last year I went to Vietnam with Hal Rogers, chairman, at the behest of Pete Peterson, who is the ambassador, and was asked to raise the American flag over Ho Chi Mihn City for the first time for over 25 years. On that trip, I met with the…

as a lead House sponsor of H.R. 4182, I rise in strong support today of this identical Senate counterpart, S. 2323. Originally, we came up with an idea based on the 1938 language, and thanks to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr…

as a conservative Republican I rise in strong support of the Shays-Nadler-Crowley-Morella amendment. I am a member of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education of the Committee on Appropriations, and we recently…

I laud the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young) for this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I grew up in a little city called Fresno, California. I had 11 uncles that taught me how to hunt and fish. As a matter of fact, one time I threw a gum…

I am a combat veteran and a veteran. I support the Republican budget, and so do other veterans.

higher fuel prices have some common denominators: diplomatic efforts, foreign policy, support of the military, environmental extremists. First of all I would ask you to look at Ronald Reagan. Strong diplomacy, strong foreign policy, strong…

I would particularly recommend that the gentleman in the other body get the briefings on potential threats posed by forces by Iran, Iraq and Libya, in North Korea and China. Specifically, Mr. Speaker, I would recommend that the Speaker…