This transportation conference bill is appropriately focused on the transportation systems, on improving them and sustaining them across our country. But there is one important provision of this measure, as approved by the United States…

How much time remains on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 21 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from New York has 27 minutes remaining.

How much time remains on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 9\1/2\ minutes, and the gentleman from New York has 27 minutes.

Unless we have a balanced approach to trying to get our budget in balance, we ensure that Medicare and Social Security as generations of Americans have known them will not be there for them.

Under rule XXII, clause 7(c), I hereby announce my intention to offer a motion to instruct on H.R. 4348, the transportation conference report. The form of the motion is as follows: Mr. Doggett moves that the managers on the part of the…

I am pleased to join my colleague from North Dakota in our truly bipartisan effort on behalf of H.R. 4282, the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act. He has made an excellent statement regarding the need for this…

Each time they pass one of these tax cuts without paying for it, that adds to the debt.

I believe under the agreement that was reached last year, if fully implemented, spending would be reduced by about $2 trillion, is that right?

And your testimony this morning is if we continue to pursue that course of only cutting spending with no additional revenues, we will have to substantially reduce Medicare and Social Security, will we not?

My concern is that those who can continue to preach what may be a good rhetoric at a political convention that Washington does not have a tax problem and only has a spending problem ignores the fact that we really have a little of both.

Well-known as ``Military City,'' San Antonio has accomplished a traumatic but successful conversion of Kelly and Brooks Air Force Bases. Now the Pentagon is recommending that we have another round of closures. Let's first guarantee that we…

Instead of focusing on discriminating against some in our community, we should be focused on ensuring that all victims of violence everywhere receive the care and services they need. Let's move forward in that struggle, not take another…

As one who supported the 1996 welfare reform legislation, I welcome this opportunity to examine how well the States have been fulfilling their obligations under that legislation.

All of the Texas miracle stuff that we have heard so much about has done very little to those who are caught in poverty.

For so many, this Violence Against Women Act vote is literally a matter of life and death. One immigrant was abused by her husband, who was a special agent for the Homeland Security Department. He threatened her that she would be deported…

Unfortunately, both ends of that partnership seem to be fraying and, along with it, the protection that millions of poor families rely upon.

Normally when we think of reconciliation, we think of a coming together, of finding common ground. This is not such a reconciliation. Rather, this is a bill that provides more tax breaks to the few and more pain to the many. It is, in…

We would contrast that example with those Republican Presidential candidates who said they wouldn't support $1 of additional revenue for $10 of spending cuts to get our budget in balance. This is a ``wreckonciliation'' bill that asks…

I think it is vital that we maintain the unemployment insurance lifeline for families who want to work, but have not yet been able to find a job.

Certainly extending a hand to those Americans who have lost a job through no fault of their own and who are out searching for new opportunities is the right thing to do to keep our economy moving forward and to assist millions of our…

Such as the minimum wage, such as not going back to child labor and working excessive hours without being paid overtime.

In fact, the legislation we are referring to is permissive with reference to these demonstration projects.

Fortunately, in February a number of our Republican colleagues, after a great deal of foot dragging and creating an unnecessary crisis for too many of our families, joined with us as Democrats in maintaining emergency unemployment benefits…

I thank the gentleman. You know, the Republicans are always so much better in the names they give these bills than what's in them. I think in considering this one we have to look at what it is and what it is not. It is not an economic…

It will be a boon to highly paid professionals, private equity firms, hedge fund managers, and professional sports teams. I think they've received enough economic benefit in the past with the Bush tax cuts. We ought to be focusing our…