On day one of this new Congress, these Republicans take a giant step backwards. They profess such great concern about their ability to cut wasteful spending. First off, they abandon pay-as-you-go budgeting, returning to the Bush-Cheney…

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, in this dealing-making, it became more important to get a deal--any deal--than to secure an agreement that reflects our American values and accomplishes our goal of renewed economic growth. This bill is largely a…

``Moment of Truth'' is the very appropriately entitled report of the President's bipartisan deficit commission, since it took barely a moment for him to cut a deal with Senate Republicans that spikes our national debt upwards almost a…

Today we close international tax loopholes and open more educational opportunities. Last year in Texas, Governor Perry and his cohorts misdirected $3.2 billion in Federal aid to education simply to replace State education commitments…

Listening to the concerns of parents, the hopes of students, and the needs of our local Texas school leaders, today we are responding with essential Federal aid to education, fully paid for by closing international corporate tax loopholes…

After 12 years of Republican rule, our tax code is riddled with loopholes. The small businesses on Main Street, the families that are struggling to get by with both spouses as wage earners, they all continue to shoulder a much heavier tax…

The Republicans do, indeed, have a moratorium. It's a moratorium on cooperation. It's a moratorium on voting for good bills they say they're for. It's a moratorium on reality. They never miss an opportunity to let their rigid ideology get…

This is just the latest example of public access in this Congress. With the encouragement of the Sunlight Foundation and other public interest groups, we must continue building on such success, arming citizens with the tools they need to…

To ensure that any money that goes for teachers and public education in Texas actually goes to improve our schools and the lives of our schoolchildren. Earlier this month, statewide groups representing teachers, principals, school boards…

This rule makes it possible for us to consider today a supplemental appropriations bill that contains some vital support for public education across America. Now, most schoolchildren learn that 3 plus 3 equals 6. Last year, the…

As one who has repeatedly and vigorously opposed all bank bailouts, whichever President proposed them, I view this bill as modest but very important progress. I'm voting ``yes'' because I stand with working families against big banks, for…

Let's keep America the best democracy, not the best democracy that money can buy. The pollution of our political process with tens of millions of dollars in spending by the world's largest multinational corporations strikes at the very…

The last Administration offered proposals to address this time after time, and a Republican Congress wouldn't approve them. That is one of the reasons we need to take this firm action today. We see the benefits of doing that in the almost…

Regarding these ill-considered arguments against the treaty-shopping provisions that allow a handful of firms to dodge their responsibilities to fund our national and homeland security, let's get the facts straight. First, there is not one…

We are in no way saying that this is the same legislative language that the Bush Administration recommended. We are saying it addresses the same problem and that you didn't like the Bush Administration approach any better than you liked…

So very fearful of being held accountable, the giant insurance monopolies have spent millions spewing out anger and spreading fear of reform. We have not seen such outlandish, outrageous arguments raised since the same forces failed to…

Today, so very late, represents the first real House debate on Afghanistan since President Obama announced that the path to peace could only be found through wider war. I have continually challenged that policy. But because our security, I…

We have exercised minimal leverage over Karzai and his cronies, who view our continuing presence there as an invitation to steal all they can get when they get it. The better exit strategy is having fewer troops who need to exit. I agree…

I oppose neither the rule nor the transportation funding in this bill, but I do oppose the so-called ``jobs'' tax credit. I only have one big problem with it, that it does so little to create jobs while adding to our very big debt. In…

I also agree with his conclusion that like the much larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was an act of domestic terrorism. But let's not quibble over the terms; it was the harm that was done and the promotion of that harm and…

I authored this resolution to honor those who were victims, to recognize the courage that was displayed by so many that day, and to condemn such cowardly acts of violence. Seeing that building aflame after this premeditated suicide attack…

For 65 years health insurance companies have enjoyed a special interest exemption from laws prohibiting price fixing, bid rigging, and carving up the insurance market. Consumers' health insurance premiums go up, while coverage gets worse…

Much of us opposed with vigor the fiscally irresponsible policies of the Bush-Cheney administration, which squandered the surplus that they began with and converted it into trillions of dollars of debt.

Indeed, there were some groups and some Republican commentators here in Washington who actually advocated during the Bush-Cheney years that driving the debt up was a very good thing.

The crowd was certainly angry. I suppose some might have a negative reaction to the poster that said 'Lloyd Doggett. Traitor to Texas. Devil to all people.'