the lead story in today's Wall Street Journal really tells it all: ``Seeing Red: As Budget Deficits Loom, Many Promises, Programs Could Suffer. Social Security Is Vulnerable as Huge 10-year Surplus Contracts by $4 Trillion.'' Yes, an…

I hope that we can begin this session of Congress in a spirit of cooperation by tackling some of the very serious domestic problems that face our country. I believe that we can learn from the repeated failures of last year when this…

I think some of our colleagues at this special time of the year need to get a smile on their face and feel a little better about things. And, really, we need to give credit where credit is due. The House Republican leadership here got in…

this is the wrong way and the wrong time to consider this bill. Voted out of committee on Halloween, this is your typical Ways and Means trick-or-treat bill; a "trick" for hard-working employees, whose pay would be lowered, as originally…

here we have the ``fast'' Fast Track being rammed through Congress, with all amendments and alternatives blocked and 1 hour for 435 Members to debate this bill. When the House Republican leadership acts in such a high-handed manner before…

in addition to attempting to assure safeguards for the taxpayer, who has to foot the bill, one of my principal concerns in questioning the airline bailout was the need to at the same time address the security of passengers on our airlines…

times of crisis like this can bring out the best in us. We have witnessed that in the thousands of Americans who have lined up to give blood, in those who have contributed as they toiled in New York and in Washington with their muscles and…

I want to yield back with his words, because so much of what the gentleman just said... is going to be long remembered in this body, when he posed the question during the airline bailout, 'Why is it that in the Congress the big dogs always…

Mr. Chairman, abstinence education. With all due respect to the good intentions of the author of the amendment, as far as this amendment and the priority-setting that produced this amendment on the floor of Congress today, I think the…

I serve on the Committee on Ways and Means, and we already have scheduled tomorrow morning bright and early an attempt to do just that. And I think our colleagues are aware that none of those people who suffered the loss of life in New…

Let us face it, folks, this bill without the motion to recommit leaves the whole question of security for the traveling public in a holding pattern. It is time to get it out of the holding pattern and bring it down to Earth. Because when…

this time of great peril has brought forth the best in our people, from those who rescue and heal and protect at ground zero, to those who across America raise flags, collect donations and give blood. But times of peril can also cause our…

against this backdrop of an unfolding and unforgettable horror, we draw our loved ones a little closer. Let our prayers comfort those in pain and our gratitude sustain those who rescue and protect and heal. As our grief yields to anger, we…

A patients' bill of rights should be about helping patients: someone who has just received the bad news from her doctor that she faces a life-threatening illness requiring extensive and expensive medications, a parent, who has a child with…

as the representative here in Washington for the capital city of the Lone Star State of Texas, I take pride in the fact that our State has provided national leadership in protecting patients from their insurance companies with a model…

this bill represents another partisan Republican failure. It offers no balance either for our energy policy or our federal budget. The only balance involved in this plan is the balance sheets of big oil, dirty coal, and dangerous nuclear…

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 certainly support this agreement, as I did in committee, but the handling of this bill really represents another foreign policy failure for the Bush Administration. During the last week alone, this Administration has stood alone and…

40 or 50 years, I would tell the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), indeed, 200 years and plus, because some of us think that just maybe our Founding Fathers, Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison and all those that played a role in our Bill of…

most of us can appreciate the feeling of the fellow who declared, ``I am proud to be paying taxes, but I could be just as proud for half the money!'' Some taxpayers have, in fact, discovered a way to get out for half the money by…

the corrupting influence of money on public policy is evident in this House every day. It is evident not only as a principal concern that arises here on vote after vote, significantly influenced by who, gave how much, to whom, when, but it…

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…

finally, the Republican tax plan and the Republican energy plan are one. In the amazing words of President Bush on Friday, ``The quickest way to help people with their energy bills is tax relief.'' This year the benefit to the typical…

I believe that the question that our Republican friends joined by one of my colleagues from Georgia just now need to answer, is if they are so much against the so-called death tax, why is it that this morning they are so modest, so timid…

Mr. Speaker, this is truly one of the most bizarre debates that we have had here in the House. We are at a time of economic slow down, an economic slow down that began about the time that President Bush began talking down our economy, and…