And as for our seniors, we suggested that getting a certificate to go fish for insurance is no substitute for Medicare. This is about values, about dignity for those in retirement, and opportunity for our young people. This Republican…

This budget is based on the false belief that if we ask those who have the least in America to take a little less and we ask those who have the most to thicken their cushion just a little bit, that everybody will be a winner and America…

I thank the gentleman. Many an American family has been wrecked by soaring health care costs. We know it's been a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. We know that spiraling health care costs have been a leading cause of credit card debt…

I would just encourage that you continue to do that. It is difficult to see, while all options have to be on the table, how military intervention there can do anything but make our families less secure.

The amendments became a part of the original legislation of the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act.

I think all of us recognize the potential of the Trans-Pacific partnership, and as with any trade agreement, there are pluses, and there are minuses.

I would like to see you move more quickly rather than more slowly, and encourage looking at our policy there to find a way to ensure our security, having achieved many of our goals, and assure our security without as broad a footprint as…

We heard objective testimony that if we extend all of the Bush tax cuts for the next decade, we will have less economic growth in this country, not more economic growth, as their theology maintains. And the testimony we're hearing is not…

This bill, like most that come out here from the Republicans, has a great name. It's a Pro-Growth Budgeting Act. It's not a pro-growth budget--big difference--but a Pro-Growth Budgeting Act. And like so many of the pieces of legislation…

I commend the gentleman for his service as our subcommittee chair and on the data issue that will be important in reducing any kind of abuse of public assistance. I now yield 2 minutes to my colleague from the Budget Committee and someone…

Well, I couldn't agree with the gentleman more about the importance of preserving, in his words, ``the integrity of this program.'' That means that none of the public funds are wasted or used in an improper way, but it also means that the…

I yield myself 30 seconds to place into the Record a letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures as well as a letter from the American Public Human Services Association and the National Association of State TANF…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I'm against fraud. I think everyone here is against it. I'm for what's in this bill. That's why I voted for it back in December, and I'll vote for it next month, too, if that will…

There was a legendary Texas House Speaker of this body, Sam Rayburn, who said that it takes a master carpenter to build a barn but any mule, I think he said, can tear one down. Well, it's time that we get together to build a solution for…

Is it just too much to ask that seniors that are struggling in a nursing home after a lifetime of work get a little economic security, that they get a little dignity? Is it too much to bring just a little peace of mind to a family that is…

I believe whatever label you put on it, what is basically a Medicare voucher system simply shifts those health care costs onto vulnerable seniors...

Those policies that would place dollars into the pockets of the families that need them the most right now...

I think all America would benefit if we were able to return to the prosperity of the Clinton years...

I thank the gentleman. As a long-time member of the Budget Committee, I certainly think that having a budget resolution is a good idea. I think it is a matter of national importance. I don't see how anyone can really disagree with the…

I yield the gentleman an additional minute. Mr. McDERMOTT. Only one out of every five poor children in America receives any direct assistance from this program we're talking about today, and those few who do get helped receive very little…

In closing, I would just yield myself such time as I may consume to say that I am pleased that we are moving forward to extend this program, at least until the end of next September. But there remains much work to do. Many of our neighbors…

While I think it would have been better to await the full report from the Government Accountability Office, I support those program integrity provisions. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis).

I may have one additional speaker if the gentlelady makes it in time, but let me close on this note: Mr. Speaker, at this time of year, we have largely a Norman Rockwell picture of American families gathered around the Christmas tables…

this administration has been a leader in trying to prevent the continued efforts of the tobacco industry to addict our children at home.

At some point, cuts to hospitals and nursing homes mean that seniors and the disabled will be unable to access the quality care that they need. And this bill's $8 billion cut to preventable chronic disease programs like heart disease and…