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I take umbrage at some who would say that this is frivolous legislation. Mr. Speaker, to me, patriotism demands more than standing on the House floor and stating that we are all patriotic or we all support the troops. Check the record of…
I looked up and I heard these figures come out that this many people are going to be left out of this bill. I looked up at who is supporting it and where the figures are coming from. It is called the Center on Budget Priorities, an extreme…
if Patrick Henry could come back today, he would be appalled at what taxation with representation gives us today. There was not time to speak during the debate, so I would like to set the record straight, and these are facts, undisputable…
when I first came here, there was a $5.2 trillion debt. That is nearly a billion dollars a day. We paid off over $400 billion in debt when we balanced the budget. It is hard to decrease that when we inherit a 5.3.
I have spent 12 years in this body, both in the authorization and the Committee on Appropriations. My sister-in-law is in charge of all special education in San Diego city schools. She works for Alan Bersin. And what he has stated that he…
before I was selected to the Committee on Appropriations, I was subcommittee chairman of the Committee on Education. I went through the IDEA bill and the reauthorization. Taking the parent groups and the schools and putting them in the…
Mr. Chairman, maybe some of us that have seen our friends killed in action do have a different view. I have personally witnessed the actions of other countries that caused the loss of many of my friends. Perhaps someone that is responsible…
I do not doubt my friend's concern for the troops. I think that is genuine. However, I do debate the gentleman's point on the war. I will be specific. First of all, there is no doubt, no doubt whatsoever that Saddam Hussein has contacts…
I have thought a lot about this resolution. I do not think any of us can speak adequately on our feelings to our men and women that serve us today. They are today not only in Iraq, but in Afghanistan and all over this world, and they go a…
I did not know if I was going to vote for this budget, but after the partisan rancor that I just heard on this floor, I am going to vote for it. It is despicable. Talk about hurting veterans, talk about cutting Social Security. In 1993…
We went up to northern California for his 80th birthday. I guess being a fighter pilot is okay, because General Yeager is 80 years old and he is dating a 35-year-old woman that he met on a hiking trail in the Sierras. If you look at…
I asked my colleague that spoke earlier, I said, In the caucus meeting, did you invite anybody else? They said, No, it was just the caucus. I asked, Did you invite anyone from outside so when you claim he did not answer questions, that it…
the law that we are going to debate on tort reform is based on California law which has been very successful. California has been more successful than the other States. What it does is it protects. It will allow, if we do this nationally…
I do not criticize my colleagues. It is their right to oppose somebody. But I also see what happened on C-SPAN. Then I look at some of the same issues that my colleagues are here bringing up, and they were false. I would think it would be…
Well, as a kid, I had read about Pappy Boyington, Chuck Yeager and Joe Foss, but the first time I ever met Joe was, again, at the American Fighter Aces Reunion in San Antonio. And I covet that picture I gave the gentleman, because I never…
we had studied when I was a kid, we studied about General Yeager and his exploits; and the first time I actually met him was at the naval air station Miramar, and he gave a lecture. This was before I ever went to Vietnam and flew, and…
I want to just put a face on AIDS and a small victory. Being on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, we quite often go out to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. There I met a young African…
General Cardenas is one of the few individuals that can tree a person with a smile. There is not a day goes by that I do not get a call from General Cardenas, and he says, ``Duke, what have you and Duncan done for the veterans today?'' I…
We rejoiced when the Democrats elected their leadership because we knew how far left it was. This is just a good example.
Well, the gentleman's business people and his workers in Georgia are just like in California. One of our colleagues at the whip meeting pointed out that the tax laws against business are the worst of all the industrialized nations. The…
Well, Wally, like General Foss, like Chuck Yeager, like most of the greats, grew up hunting and fishing. He is an outdoorsman. And Wally and I were up in northern California hunting pheasants together, along with a whole group of our folks…
Well, I have a better picture of Wally. Because General Yeager and myself and Wally Schirra had a satellite feed that one of the television systems set up, and we were piped in basically into high schools across the United States, where…
I remember attacking a site and the guy on the ground said hit the purple smoke, and the purple smoke was their position. And it was guys like the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) and the rangers in Vietnam that were trying to…
Another important point is that people think, well, I will be getting money back. Not so. You just do not have to send it to Washington, D.C. in the first place. My colleagues on the other side, many of them, believe that Washington can do…
Billy Mitchell started flying in 1916. This was the time that Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Ace flew. He predicted these things that were going to happen in 1942 with Japan. He was also looked at being court martialed. He said if we did…
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