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Mr. Speaker, the Water Resources Development Act is vital to thousands of Americans that live along our Nation's shores including those in my district. There are two important parts of this bill I would like to recognize. The first is the…
I strongly support H.R. 1975, the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act. H.R. 1975 would streamline our Federal royalty collection system by improving the management of royalties from Federal and outer continental…
I rise today to offer my amendment to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using any fund to allow the importation of PCB waste to be incinerated in the United States. Mr. Chairman, it is a simple proposition that we should…
I took this time today in part as a point of personal privilege. Earlier today, while I was with some students from Crafton Academy, which is in my district in Houston, having taken them to the Senate Chamber and then to the House Chamber…
like all Americans I am concerned about the recent rise in gas prices and the effect that it has on consumers and on our industries in this country. I do not know exactly what the answer is, I am not sure that anybody does, but I think it…
We can pass legislation that does away with insurance discrimination for preexisting conditions, that says, If someone loses their job, or they get sick, they can still retain their right to buy insurance that has common sense market…
Fortunately, Meredith is OK, and we need not worry about how we pay. That's not the case for the young woman I recently met in my district who could not purchase health insurance because her daughter had a heart condition. Her husband…
Of course, today is not February 29. Today is March 7, and the fact is that the Republican leadership has once again failed to stand up to the test of leadership and address what needs to be addressed. What we are talking about here is the…
If you do not pay your debt when it is due, if you do not pay the interest and principal when it is due, that is a default. And once you do that, that is when you have things like Moody's Investor Service, who say that the creditworthiness…
for the fourth time in 9 days, a savage suicide bomber has attacked the people and the state of Israel, seeking to terrorize its people and destabilize the Middle East peace process. The latest bombing, outside Tel Aviv's largest shopping…
just so I can set the Record straight so my colleagues over here do not make a mistake, I was not here in 1993. In fact, I was in the private sector, in fact outside the Beltway, where I was earning a living in an industry very similar to…
I was asked by a reporter yesterday as to why my colleague, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Doggett], and I introduced a privileged resolution to bring a clean debt limit extension to the floor. My first response was, because it is the…
That is about right, around 3 to 3.5 percent, 350 basis points. That is a substantial additional interest cost. What you in effect do is you turn interest into principal and you thus incur more debt. It costs you money in the long run. We…
I join my colleague from Texas, Mr. Doggett, in introducing this privileged resolution and in urging its approval so that the U.S. Government can keep paying its bills and not default for the first time in its history. There is no question…
a week ago, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, Mr. Kasich, said that the Republicans had abandoned the idea of shutting down the Government and defaulting on the national debt. But yesterday, my colleague from Texas, the majority…
I have become quite alarmed as a new Member of this 104th Congress to see that once again the majority leader and the majority party are advocating that we should default on our national debt. That is something that the United States…
Absolutely not. This is no way to run a country. This is certainly a revolution, but it is the wrong kind of revolution.
The fact that under our system of finance the companies would not be able to go public and raise capital so they could create new jobs is ridiculous. We have an economic rebound going on, we have GDP growing at a rate of about 2 to 3…
I guess this legislation is some form of hostage taking, and what we are doing is we are going to release some hostages like the NIH, and that is good because places like UT Health Sciences Centers at the Texas Medical Center were getting…
Members, sometimes admitting to making a mistake is difficult, and I think this legislation is evidence of that, that our colleagues on the Republican side have made a mistake. Senator Dole showed that they made a mistake the other day…
I believe in the House absurdity begets absurdity. This shutdown is obviously one of the most absurd things I have seen. It clearly has accomplished nothing, although it has provided a great deal of hardship, not only for Federal employees…
all along, the Republican Medicare plan has been nothing but a shell game to design to hide that they are cutting Medicare to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The American people were not fooled, and they quickly caught on that Medicare…
as a new Member, I came to this House committed to enacting reform and restoring the trust of the American people in Congress. I am proud that on my first day in the House, we voted to make the Congress abide by the same laws other…
Earlier this year the Clinton administration and the Army Corps of Engineers proposed a phase-out of Federal funding for local flood control projects. I am pleased that the subcommittee rejected this proposal during consideration of the…
the Republican budget cuts student loans, plain and simple. The Republicans say they want to protect the children, they want to provide incentives for investment, but they want to slam the door on middle-class kids who want to go to…
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