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American politician (born 1944)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, want to express my appreciation for this resolution. I am proud to be a cosponsor. After this event happened, this unprovoked attack by the North on the island, my son and I communicated with a good friend…
If you look at all of the former Warsaw Pact countries that are now members of NATO, we are in a conflict that is global in nature. NATO is evolving from a static, land-based defense force to a security force that relieves our men and…
We believe that having such a systematic approach to oversight enshrined in the Rules of the House would greatly enhance Congressional oversight of executive agencies' programs and functions. As you may know, POGO is a non-partisan…
And we're going to provide resources? No, we're not going to provide any resources for these veterans unless you vote for this bill. What you're doing is we're going to ask China and Japan to give the resources to our veterans. I think…
You are talking about OPEC and the price of gasoline. Gasoline in July was $3-plus a gallon. Can you name one thing that has changed between July and now as it relates to the world situation that would make gasoline come down? The…
If you will yield on just that point, here is what the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, which is where FEMA is now, said in regard to their financial statements. ``Unfortunately, the Department made…
You can look around. I could hit a driver and a 3-wood most of these places. They could start right here in this town just trying to find out what did you do with the money we gave you.
If you add Hong Kong, that is over $300 billion that China controls of our paper.
Well, I don't want to catch you off guard, but we need to clear this up before we vote on this resolution. I do not think the American people will support a government that grants amnesty to people who kill American soldiers.
The Army has been talking about adjusting the length of deployment in some manner, and there has been ongoing discussions about that with the Army Chief of Staff and others, and this amendment merely asks the Secretary of the Army to give…
Now you have got a part of another $36 million that we have borrowed since we started talking, and 90 percent of that is coming to us from overseas.
I would say that we see time and again the rule resolution that comes to the floor and is passed basically on the party line; what you see is that in the rule, all points of order are waived, which means that the budget rules that we try…
We all would like to be big business owners someday, but we are still small business owners.
I think that means I am old. I appreciate the gentleman having this special order tonight and inviting us down here. Mr. Scott, many of you may know, but his brother-in-law is the homerun king of baseball, Hank Aaron, and he was nice…
Some of us sometimes feel like a canary in a coal mine. They send a canary in a coal mine to see if it can live because of the gases and so forth. We have been talking about this, the Blue Dogs and others, for at least a year. I think…
Of the last year, we paid gross interest on the $7.3 trillion of $318 billion. If we do the math, that is, 17.8 percent of every dollar that comes into this town is going out in interest. That is a 17.8 percent mortgage on our country. If…
It has been 1,168 days since President Bush and the Republican Party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time the national debt has increased by $1,636,400,551,909.99. According to the Web site for the Bureau of…
It is one of them. It is not ``the'' solution. There is not ``a'' solution tonight that we can do. But I can say this: What we are doing is unsustainable financially. It does not do any good to question me. I do not have any votes. When…
No, Mr. Speaker, I did not say, do not pass a debt limit. I said it would be a financial calamity if we did not.
Last year, of the $370 billion that we borrowed, foreigners financed 70 percent of it. The Red China central bank has increased their holdings of our debt by 70 percent in the last 26 months.
I was not going to speak, but I must say to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. McCrery), you know if you are using whatever confrontation took place between the gentleman from California (Mr. Stark) and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr…
It has been 797 days since President Bush and the Republican Party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time, the national debt has increased by $1,080,045,794,469. According to the Web site for the Bureau of the…
You did not support the Blue Dog budget either that would have resulted in $21 billion less in interest over a period of time.
I did not vote for the Democratic substitute because I thought it was too light on reform. The Republican bill is too light on substance. Mr. Speaker, we have a middle ground here, if we were only allowed to offer it; and it is what the…
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