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…

Well, let me just conclude with this. One of my communities, Conroe, the veterans and I have worked for a number of years to try to make this a reality. This is great news for our veterans; and, more importantly, I think it is great news…

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…

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.

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

there is actually bipartisan support for reducing taxes in the AMT on American families. If I could go back in time and stop that Congress from ever creating it, I would have because the principle of it has always been so wrong. The…

it is, I think, a terrible mistake to leave out tax relief for dividends. These are the usually small amounts of money that go to people, many seniors, who have invested in a company; and these are the dividends that help ease their…

I want to thank Chairman McCrery and Mr. Jefferson for their leadership on this bill. I am proud to be from Texas, a State that when victims fled the wrath of Hurricane Katrina we had communities and churches and homes that opened their…

in Washington everything looks perfect on paper and people hate to admit they made a mistake; but the truth of the matter is how it works in real life is completely different, and we have a responsibility to make those changes. I strongly…

My understanding, too, is we are seeing letters from legislators down in Central America who are being financed by our Socialists down there who say they are opposing it on the merits, but in fact they are getting a nudge from the enemies…

If the gentleman would stay for just a moment. You have spent your whole life in law enforcement and a number of your recent years in protecting homeland security from threats. One of the key points you made is that while we are fighting a…

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 notice, too, the gentleman serving on Ways and Means, all we hear about is NAFTA; but what the critics do not tell you is that there is one huge difference between the two agreements, ignoring for a minute that during NAFTA years 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…

the world has changed. It is no longer enough to just buy American; we have to sell American. We have to tear down these ``America Need Not Apply'' signs that are throughout the world and give us a chance to sell our products and our goods…

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…

Mr. Speaker, we did not spend a dime around here for the past 10 years. It is all your spending. That was 2 minutes ago. Today, it is, yeah, we spent a lot, but you spent more. Well, there is a difference. What we spent our deficit on was…

I yield myself 30 seconds as a reminder that it is the economy that has caused this deficit; it is additional spending both for homeland security, supporting our troops, and for those press releases Members in this Chamber have so proudly…

Let us do a quick fact check here. Eighty-eight percent of the debt that we are raising today comes from government transfers, or from past debts before President Bush's administration took office. Eighty-eight percent of that. So we are…

Some people have a short memory around here. I do believe that reducing the debt, restraining spending is a bipartisan effort. We have to work together. But I recall my friends on the Democratic side, when Republicans proposed a Medicare…

Mr. Speaker, let me first, on behalf of this side of the aisle, join with the Minority Leader in praising the service of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm). His grandson ought to be proud of his granddad, his service here, both for…

Like a mortgage payment, like a credit card payment, we are paying for past decisions by this Congress, some of them decades old. In fact, if we are talking about the past 40 years of control by our Democratic friends, we are talking about…

it is a wonderful honor to join with my Republican and Democrat friends, the Texas delegation of this Chamber, to honor our former colleague Congressman Jack Fields, by renaming the post office in Kingwood, Texas, where he and his family…

I am not embarrassed to say I stand here on behalf of tens of thousands of families in the Eighth Congressional District in strong support of the marriage protection amendment. I believe the institution of marriage is a sacred union. It…