Kevin Brady

As you know, many veterans live hours from major hospitals, making it very difficult for them to get the care they need; and oftentimes, for those who have to travel there two or three times a week, they have a terrible quality of life…

While I may not agree, I concede the point of order. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The point of order is conceded and sustained. The amendment is not in order.

Again, I appreciate the work this Appropriations Committee has done to help provide reimbursement for schools. We are hoping to get for this school year that full funding to help them. Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time…

I concede the point of order at this time. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The point of order is conceded and sustained. The amendment is not in order. Amendment Offered by Mr. Brady of Texas

We have another gentleman from Texas, who, like the previous one, has experience that relates directly to creating jobs. He has been a small business person for more than 32 years, is an accountant and a small business owner in west Texas…

I would like to turn now to a gentleman from Colorado who has a wonderful background. He is a farmer. He is a rancher. He is a community banker. In recent years he has served as an outstanding member of the Ways and Means Committee. I…

This is not Republican Social Security, this is not Democrat Social Security, this is not white or black or any other ethnicity Social Security. This is Social Security for Americans, period. We ought to come together as Americans in…

Mr. Speaker, tell me the moral clarity of going home each week and trumpeting that press release for the firefighter fund or the road project or for that water project, and then stand up here tonight and tell us we are not going to pay the…

As an adoptive father, I think it is sad and really disgusting. Let me make this point on this bill, which is really the subject of today, which is adoptions build families. It provides love and hope where really none exists, both for the…

I think it is just the opposite. The problem we have is that there are too many American-need-not-apply signs around this world. We are not able to sell our products and our goods and our services across the world. American workers are the…

The husband paid in in one; the husband and wife paid in in both; and the husband and wife, the widow who paid her whole life, she gets less. Two classes of citizens in America. And nowhere do I know in America can one work one day…

A teacher's Social Security should be based on the same thing every American's Social Security is based on: work history and contributions, not more and certainly nothing less.

In the same setting, CBO estimates the premiums for fee-for-service Medicare may go down by $10 a month, or, at most, increase by $3 a month. It is much less variation than the CMS study that is cited here tonight. The fact of the matter…

Medicare needs to change with the times. Our seniors deserve a Medicare that includes a modern prescription drug benefit, one that is voluntary so seniors can keep the good plans they already have, one that gives seniors the right to…

Partial birth abortion is one of the more barbaric procedures of modern times. Doctors confirm it is never medically necessary. Never. So much so that it is not even taught in our nation's medical schools. Yet more than 3,000 healthy…

Common sense tells you the best thing we can do to balance the budget and pay down our debt is to get people back to work, because when you are not working, you are not paying Federal taxes, you are not paying into Social Security, you are…

My younger brother has been deployed as an Army medic in the 67th Brigade. He will be watching out for the 4th Infantry Division in the Persian Gulf, his second tour of duty. He does not have a loophole. He cannot work 1 day and collect…

Clearing up a couple of misconceptions there, I would love to be able to tell my Texas teachers, whom I love, what they want to hear. But I respect them too much to do that. I want to tell them the truth. The fact of the matter is, this…

The truth and facts are that when one is laid off, they do not pay into Social Security. If they do not have a job, they do not pay to preserve Medicare. If there is no means of income, they are not helping balancing this budget, they are…

In closing, let me say we should not retreat from fair trade competition, we should insist on it, because competition is America's strength and it is the key to our high-wage and our high-tech future.

In Illinois, if we ask any neighbor who has a good, secure job that they like, that is paying good, decent benefits, I wonder how many of them work for a company or for a farm that does not have a salesman, that does not have someone out…

I know the gentleman from Georgia has long played a leadership role in trade, and I know you listen very carefully to those who create jobs in Georgia. What do your farmers, your small businesses, your technology companies, your financial…

One of the excuses we hear from people that do not support this is that Congress has no say in this legislation. The President negotiates it and usurps our constitutional power, that we have no say in shaping what an agreement will look…

Let me state the facts directly from FEMA, those on the ground and working: ``FEMA's disaster account has sufficient funding to ensure disaster aid to those victims of Tropical Storm Allison flooding. FEMA assures those in Texas…

This bill creates the vehicle for tax relief for Americans. As we sent it to the Senate, as we talked through the principal items we talked about, that is what this bill is about. The gentleman knows it and may not like it, but he…