Joe Cunningham

I am not going to talk about spending, deficits, taxes, Democrats, Republicans. I am going to do something a little different on the floor. I will talk about a vision for world peace. And the title is ``To Cast Aside a Friend,'' maybe a…

As I listened to my colleagues on the other side, you would think that the White House and Republicans are mean-spirited, evil, and do not really care about the American public. I think it would be refreshing to listen to a Special Order…

I sit on the Committee on Appropriations; and of the 13 appropriations bills, on average there is an increase of $1.5 trillion on each of those appropriations bills. We came out with a budget, and the Democrats whine it is not enough. The…

the gentleman from Ohio knows good and well, so does my counterpart on the Democrat side, we have testimony before the committee from the Justice Department, from the FBI, from law enforcement that this is not a good idea. And you know…

I do not want to support your amendment which in my opinion is a disaster to national security in this country. Special interests in banking, a caucus over on this side and people that want to support this, I disagree 100 percent. If you…

Taking my time back, why do we not do a U.S.-side card that has a database? Mexico has no database whatsoever. You can go from area to area and get a different matricula card like this. Why do we not work this out to where a U.S.-side…

Mr. Chairman, I do not totally disagree with my colleague but just a little bit that just spoke, because there are limited directions of stem cell research that I think that we could all support, whether you are prolife, prochoice, which…

I want to tell you, if you want a rewarding job, take something like D.C. that had so many problems. I mean, instead of a sterling city like San Diego that does not need much upgrade, if you take D.C., that is where you can make the most…

I think that some speakers seem to distrust big business. Some do need it, but I would tell my colleagues, California was hit extensively with defense cuts. A lot of the jobs were lost, a lot of not just DOD but jobs in the high-tech…

I would like to invoke two names: Jack Murtha and Ike Skelton. If you watched the defense bill go through here, both in authorization and appropriations, those gentlemen do not care who is President or who has the majority. They fight…

I think it is ironic, some people up here on the floor say we are not spending enough. They have never served in the military. They vote to cut defense. The last speaker, the gentlewoman from California, in 1993, the Frank amendment to cut…

Mr. Chairman, I love to hunt. I have hunted in Oregon, I have hunted in Washington State, I have trout fished up there, gotten some beautiful fish, and I want to protect those streams and forests. But let me tell where I think things have…

Twelve years ago, and I went, we had the money and we had a limited forest. Take a look at all of California when you have 3 decades of brush that is built up, when you have the number of trees that have been eaten by the beetles. You have…

Taking back my time, it has been this body, and mostly the other side of the aisle, that has objected to us putting in new roads, that have objected to us clearing brush because of the endangered species, that have objected to us doing…

we rise to honor and mourn Ronald Reagan. But first I would like to thank Mrs. Nancy Reagan. The wisest of men knows it takes a good woman to make a good man, and what a good wingman she has been, both in sickness and in health. This…

this bill is, as my colleagues on the other side say, about now and the future, but I think we see it a little bit differently. It is an honest debate, and I would tell my friends that my colleagues on the other side, I believe, feel that…

I am reminded, my colleague on the other side talked about middle income. I listened to the gentleman from Missouri that ran for President over and over and over again in the 1990s, 1991, 1992, 1993, talk about the middle class. First of…

that is the whole idea. When the gentleman claims that they gave a surplus, we took away their Social Security tax increase. We restored veterans' pay. We restored military pay. We put their gas tax into a highway trust fund so we could…

My amendment directs placement of a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery honoring noncitizen service members killed in the line of duty while serving in the United States Armed Forces. The amendment designates the Secretary of the Army…

on the eve of the 136th observance of Memorial Day, the House of Representatives paused in a moment of silence to honor all of our fallen heroes. Men and women across the United States and from other countries continue to serve in the…

I come from a border area, San Diego, California; and we have thousands come across our border, not just from Mexico, from other places as well. I used to think this was a good amendment, until you start thinking about it. You just do not…

Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld led this Nation through two wars. There was a minimum loss of life on both sides. He was effective and provided freedom for millions of men, women, and children. General Kimmitt in January reported that there…

I am very, very proud of the men and women that serve in our armed services, and I served with in Vietnam and all the conflicts up to that point, but time has witnessed a sine wave of activities. In business we had Enron. We have had a…

the American people quite often are seen from time to time from both civilian businesses and the military with some bad actors. We all condemn those. The problem that I have is that too many people focus on just the bad actors and forget…

Colonel Bud Day, former Vietnam prisoner of war for over 6 years, recalls in his book on how Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, and John Kerry energized the enemy through their accusations and hurt them as prisoners of war. Mr. Speaker, I was shot…