Joe Cunningham

I understand part of the gentleman's amendment, that when we have a lot of different programs that we have to buy, then there is limited dollars. But I would also tell the gentleman that that has been created not artificially but by this…

Small point: The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson, saw three B-52's blow up. Those were shot down by SA-2 Fansong radar in an old technology, post-Korean vintage. Today they have got SA-3 surface-to-air missile, all the way through…

Let me even add to that point. When I worked in the Pentagon, the Navy never ordered A-6's. They prayed that Congress would add them just to keep the line on so we could perpetuate it. Members can talk to General Fogleman or the Air Force…

Many of us feel that the Sanchez-Dornan seat was stolen. I will be specific. I will give my colleagues a classic example. In the city of San Diego, they had 5,000 new citizens sworn in. At that time, a gentleman from the Republican Party…

if we want to save the arts and save the arts for children, $80 million goes to all States, not the majority to New York or my State of California. There was a Republican compromise back in 1995. As the chairman of the subcommittee, along…

China is a rogue nation, ruled by totalitarians and Communists. It oppresses its people, and denies them basic freedoms and religious liberty. It fails to abide by standards of good citizenship in the community of nations. Its officials…

I have got friends on both sides of this issue. I am a Californian. Let me tell Members why I am opposed to this amendment. First of all, remember that every BRACC base closed is for privatization. Every one closed. That is what we are…

Shoeless John Kasich, tell me it is not so. Tell me an individual who is a caring individual would send our men and women off to combat. In Vietnam, we lost 10 percent of our bomber force in 11 days, B-52s. And that is what we are asking…

I would like to speak directly to the gentleman from Texas, because I support 99.9 percent of his position. I have fought against military on the border. If they get to anywhere close to what your fears are, the perception, which I do not…

we have legislation coming before this body that would give tax relief back to the American people. My father took home 85 percent of his paycheck. My daughters are scheduled to take home 10 percent of their paycheck at the current…

the last speaker, and the gentleman managing the bill, this was so very important to them that under the rule, while they had another half-hour, they spent the whole time on another issue. So this must not be that important an issue for…

It never ceases to amaze me that some people on the other side of this issue state their opinions as fact. I would say they are factually challenged. That is refuted in every single document that we have. When we go into the full House I…

this bill is a monumental bill. My colleagues on the other side, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Clay], and the rest of them, and the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Kildee], we worked on this bill when I was chairman of the subcommittee. If…

I laud the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Scott]. He and I have worked on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and if the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Scott] could listen for a moment, I do not have time to yield, but I would like…

one minute on a subject like this that is so critical, I think, to the future is by far not enough and we spend two days on an open rule on housing and in something like this that affects our children. I would like to thank the gentlewoman…

I would also let the gentlewoman know I am a member of the NRA, and that I have trigger guards, or my weapons are all in safes and my daughters and my son have been taught how to use those in a safe manner. In fact, the keys are in a…

I would ask the gentleman's help in stopping the Communist Chinese COSCO from taking over Long Beach Naval Shipyard.

Let me just say briefly, Mr. Speaker, that the gentleman that spoke before, the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Moran] talked about the Republicans destroying the environment; and I would like to make just about 30 seconds' worth of comments…

Let me say that I would ask the gentleman to support us, the attorney general from California and all of the police chiefs in the State of California, and I am sure there are other States that are affected. They brought some pretty…

We have all worked for people that we respect and believe that have vision on both sides of the aisle. And I would like to state that we had our Republican Caucus just before the decision was made about the Speaker and before the Speaker…

I feel it is very important that we bring up another subject. That is the subjugation of the United States by a Communist-owned company, and control of. What I would like to do tonight is talk on the facts. Those facts are based on when I…

In my State, Cosco, a Chinese-owned and operated shipping company, has just been awarded to take over the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Cosco is the same company that just took out the pier in New Orleans. It is the same company, I would say…

I came down because I was upset at the gentlewoman's statement, not against it but what she was saying, because I am 100 percent pro-life; but I also want to support the life endangerment of the mother, and the gentleman from New York [Mr…

I rise in support of the Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1). I am a proud original cosponsor of this measure, which I believe is one of the most profamily, proemployee bills ever to come before Congress. In San Diego County…

there may be a perception that this is not important to the other side, but the reality is important. For 28 years we have not been able to balance the budget because it has proven too difficult. In Gramm-Rudman, the deal was that for…