Lloyd Doggett

I respectfully say to the gentleman that he is passionate all right, but I believe he is passionately wrong, and when he comes to the floor and votes to cut the school lunch program, votes to cut Head Start by $137 million, and then comes…

We feel it is this very bill that demeans public education, just as his vote to cut $137 million from Head Start demeans public education, just as his vote to eliminate the school lunch program demeans public education. You are going to…

I do not understand why Medicare subvention has not been set out here. I do not understand why a mechanism for our gulf war veterans to make claims against Saddam Hussein has not been put on the calendar. I do not understand why this…

The gentleman who claims to represent so many veterans, while at the same time opposing an amendment in their vital interest, should have his facts correct. There is no reason why veterans should not be able to access this money and the…

If there is a family out there, maybe both parents having to try to work just to make ends meet and at the same time trying to create a good family environment for their kids. If they work for someone that does not provide health…

Indeed, for the ordinary young working families, does this reconciliation bill really offer them much of anything?

Indeed, when we talked about getting a balanced budget agreement that has true balance, I always thought the idea was that there would be shared sacrifice, shared burden, but it would appear that those at the top of the economic ladder now…

Really, is not the measure what one would properly call a wreckonciliation bill, in that it wrecks the balanced budget agreement?

All of this, with all of those failures, all those attempts to wreck education, to wreck Medicare, what they call reconciliation, which was the right name for that bill that they did that it, all of that and then they have come, have they…

I know you want to let Medicare wither on the vine. You let Medicare wither on the vine.

You have had your opportunity to misrepresent the facts, including the fact that only a handful of Democrats supported the conservative coalition budget when well over a majority of our caucus supported that budget. It gets the budget…

Once again our Republican friends demonstrate they do not know up from down. Talk is not cheap in this body, Mr. Radanovich, because the gap between the reality and the rhetoric that has come out here tonight is several billion dollars…

So even though tobacco is the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the United States, this Congress, this House under the Gingrich leadership, is not doing anything about it?

Now, the gentleman from California mentioned that there are other measures besides this amendment which only keeps us from wasting a certain amount of public moneys in support of death that ought to be taken. Are there going to be any of…

Actually, it is Lewis, who has almost $200 a month in prescriptions not covered now. And I know the gentleman and Dr. McDermott will remember that when Republicans put out their big strategy, their PR plan on Medicare. They told their own…

This House Republican leadership has turned over the job of writing much of our legislation to special interest lobbyists. They gather here at the Capitol weekly to write the Nation's business. So, it is little wonder that now with the…

Or we could expect the same type of thing that we saw last year when there was a bill out here that was called the Clean Water Act amendments, but most everyone that looked at it referred to it as the dirty water act. Most of the…

My concern is that that is all they plan to do; that they want to have good public relations but that they intend to continue, as far as I know they have not stopped their closed-door meetings with the polluters and special interest…

This was after they began the weekly meetings with the polluters behind closed doors here in the Capitol?

That is reality. That demonstrates the ability of the American people to get past these stickers saying ``I have been to the zoo'' or ``I planted a tree'' or ``I have a green sport coat,'' and get down to the fact that some people who say…

I have just received a copy of the House Republican National Strategic Plan for 1996, and I am wondering if the gentleman has an opinion as to how this piece of legislation, which I believe is the first piece of legislation dealing…

This is a so-called corrections day bill, but it does not correct any of the real problems that affect the American families that are out there struggling to make ends meet.

Let me ask the gentleman about this particular bill, about this data bank which has been brought to the floor under an unusual procedure never used before by this Congress, that by the very nature of the procedure bringing it to the floor…

Surely it is permissible in the course of one of these debates, and I can understand the gentleman's desire not to get into this destruction to the health care of our seniors across the country by raising this issue, but surely it is…

I think they would throw out the management of the company. That is exactly what the people of the United States are going to do if we continue to have the kind of shenanigans that have been going on here. It is time to protect the full…