Joe Cunningham

this debate is almost hilarious. My colleagues on the other side say there is no budget. But each appropriations bill we have in the balanced budget has a cap. Every appropriations bill has a budget in it, all 13 of them. There is your…

this is an issue of principal. If an individual makes a loan, it is simple, they pay it back. When an individual goes in to borrow, whether it is from their colleague, a bank, whether it is a savings and loan or whatever, they know what…

Why is the left against this bill? Because they want big government control for education and they will fight to keep it. They will do anything to keep those 760 Federal education programs which strangle the dollars going to the classroom…

I am not a member of this committee, although I am a member of the full committee, and I came to seek time because there is an increasing problem, and I have heard the same problem from both sides of the aisle. With increasing trade…

The gentleman fails to remember that it was the Democrats that increased the tax on Social Security in 1993 and it was the Republicans that saved us from dipping out of the trust fund so it would not go bankrupt. But I am here to talk…

Reclaiming my time, I am a strong fiscal conservative. That is where the disagreement is. We feel that to fight this war and give it to the people that are very effective is the best that we can do, because it saves a lot of money in our…

I would like to tell Members one of the best committees we have in Congress and works in a very bipartisan way is the Committee on National Security on authorization and also on the Committee on Appropriations, the Subcommittee on Defense…

I am a survivor, and I am a very, very fortunate survivor. By early detection, by having a good health care system, by having a doctor that is demanding, that you go through with all of the tests to check; by having a good surgeon and…

As I said, at an age over 50 years of age, everyone should have an annual check with a PSA, with the diagnosis and the different checks. But for African Americans, the doctor recommended it at least when you are 45 years of age, because…

in a way, I am going to talk about health care, but I am going to talk about personal health care. The reason is that I am a prostate cancer survivor. Three weeks ago I had prostate cancer and it was removed out of my body. I would like to…

Mr. Chairman, sometimes it is almost laughable. I am a veteran. I live here in the Northeast right now. I want fairness for veterans. There is no one that I take a back seat to on support for veterans issues or active duty military issues…

President Ronald Reagan in his inaugural address talked about a man named Martin Treptoe. Martin Treptoe, like J.J. Chestnut, John Gibson, had not ever been heard of by America before that time, but Martin Treptoe was a baker. During World…

Where we ask someone to privatize and to save money and they go through the extraordinary function to do that, then I think that we ought to honor that and not renege on our promise. I do not have any Indian tribes in my district, but I…

China is a rogue nation, as dangerous to us and the world as a dangerous pit viper. It is ruled by totalitarians and lying communists over a people that want to be free. Dissidents beg us to stay engaged, both diplomatically and…

In my humble opinion, it should be struck, the point of order, the Johnson amendment should not be offered, or if it is offered, those members should stick to their word. The chairman of the committee in conference should not yield and…

I rise to support H.R. 8, the Border Smog Reduction Act of 1998. Introduced by my San Diego congressional delegation colleague, Representative Brian Bilbray, H.R. 8 is a practical and bipartisan approach to improving border air quality and…

I also agree with the gentlewoman on the fact concerning declaring war, there ought to be a limit, and this Congress needs to have its position based on the Constitution, and this is a good constitutional issue. I thank the gentleman from…

Mr. Chairman, we arm wrestle every day back and forth across the aisle on domestic spending. We have got budget caps, and we have some serious problems in this country. Even though the economics are supposed to be good, as many of you…

my daughters, April and Carrie, got the first duck mud between their toes in a goose blind over in the Salton Sea with their Grandpa Jones. He also taught them how to blow a duck call in that same place. Why is it important? It is a major…

too often we hear about the wetlands, not too often because wetlands have been denigrated. But a plant in the middle of the desert, because it flourishes for a few weeks, is not a wetland, or something that is frozen at the top of a 12,000…

I serve on another committee, on the Committee on National Security, and it is a pleasure because of the bipartisanship. Does not mean that we do not have disagreements from time to time, but the atmosphere, the friendliness, the working…

However, I would tell the Members, Mr. Chairman, that national defense, and I was a professional for 20 years, is at the lowest I have seen it in 30 years, the worst shape I have seen it in 30 years. We could survive with a low budget and…

I have talked to the Navy and regarding the problem of the backup of railroad cars, they would bring it as far as Texas and then off-load it onto trucks and bring it in. So it would not affect that kind of problem. This was not a problem…

I recently returned from Greece. And I met with the Prime Minister from Greece, and I also met with the Defense Minister. They bought German tanks. They have an alliance with Germany. It goes beyond what I think the gentleman is talking…

God bless the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) for this effort. The loss of a child, or even the abuse of a child, I think is the most lifelong, hurtful, terrible event that can happen to…