Lloyd Doggett

I understand Houston is a very special place, but is there some reason why it is so special that it is apparently the only city in the entire 50 States, in the entire United States, that has been singled out for this special treatment?

I am pleased to join our colleagues in honoring our former colleague, Steve Horn. It is sometimes said that someone is a gentleman and a scholar. Steve Horn is genuinely both. He contributed mightily to the House and worked with people of…

Just to complete the record, it is very clear that the office of Inspector General did not explore anything other than one aircraft. They did not explore the other misuse of the response of the Department of Homeland Security; and, second…

I know the gentleman was expressing concern about using the Federal Bureau of Investigation with reference to political purposes. The gentleman is aware that it was the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) who himself talked about calling out…

He is a pretty good farmer up there. Mr. Laney is a farmer, a citizen legislator. I doubt there are that many Texans outside of west Texas that know precisely where Hale Center is. I do not know. Maybe that is why the current Speaker of…

And certainly our concern is that resources that are very much needed to protect our families not be diverted for a personal political police force.

I think it is a sign of desperation, a sign of extremism, a sign of the same kind of arrogance that goes to the Texas Legislature after the Governor, after the Lieutenant Governor, after the Speaker, all Republicans, as well as a number of…

Of course we have the tragic history of Watergate that led to the departure of a President and growing disrespect and cynicism of our people as a result of the Watergate scandal, the misuse, the invasion of people's personal information…

In other words, the very same room, the very chamber of the Texas capital that is under lockdown tonight is where President Bush chose, on his own, to go and introduce himself to the Nation. Is the gentleman aware of the individual that he…

In addition to those very persuasive statements from Republican leaders in Texas, is the gentleman aware of where President Bush, after he had been declared the President-elect by the Supreme Court, where he had his initial speech to…

George Bush made his first address to the Nation as President-elect from the chamber of the Texas House of Representatives. Today that same House is in lockdown. He was introduced by Democrat Speaker Pete Laney. Today, Mr. Laney is at work…

A distinguished predecessor as President of the United States, Dwight David Eisenhower, pledged, ``I shall go to Korea.'' To achieve peace, why don't you simply pledge, ``I shall go to Austin.''

The resolution draft we were offered as praising the troops largely forgot the troops. Most all of it seems to be about the President.

Could we not dispense with this debate and simply take up, with the gentleman's approval, the entire Senate resolution and adopt it, and have every one of us saying not only the same thing in this House chamber but saying the same thing…

I believe the gentleman's resolution omits clause 5 of Senate resolution S. Con. Res. 26, which says that the Congress "joins all Americans in remembering those who lost their lives during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm…

So do I understand that this in no way authorizes the expenditure of monies for any attack on the nation of Iraq?

Next week we are supposed to have completed the work on the new homeland security agency. Is the gentleman aware that there are lobby disclosure reports that have been filed right here in the Capitol by Pricewaterhouse Consulting which…

A vote for this rule would strip out of the bill the DeLauro language which says that we will not give government contracts to corporate tax dodgers, plain and simple. That is what this debate is all about. So if you vote for this rule…

It is the specter. It is the ghost of relief. It is great for an election year, though. I think they have done a good job of having a good election year ploy. But my concern is that with this basic underlying proposal, there is some…

There is nothing in today's bill that really helps them at all over the next several years.

They do not even propose to actually implement the marriage penalty under their proposal for several additional years. Now, if we had taken the Democratic alternative that we advanced last year, that would have been more benefical to that…

This is not really an insult of me or to the House, but to the 11,000 workers added to the rolls every day who are going without unemployment insurance and whose needs are being deliberately neglected by this House, and who will not…

It is called CAFE, but unless this amendment is approved, special interests will enjoy another free lunch as they guzzle down plates piled high to satisfy a very hefty energy appetite. With 200 million tons of global-warming pollution…

I know the gentleman from Wisconsin is well known in this body as a hawk of sorts, a deficit hawk. He is always up there on the top in the ratings of the Concord Coalition on fiscal responsibility. We have got a budget. This plan that they…

Since the name of the great Lone Star State has been invoked here, I have to tell my colleagues about an experience that I had... there was that kind of price discrimination.