the notion that this tax bill will correct the economic slowdown is truly a fantasy. This proposal was concocted during last year's Republican campaign primaries. It was not developed during hard times, and it is certainly not designed for…

today I rise to applaud the excellent efforts of the ABC television network and particularly journalists Dan Harris and John Stossel for demonstrating the tremendous deceit associated with the latest round of Philip Morris advertising…

this tax bill is a true Halloween witch's brew; a heavy dose of money for big, unaccountable HMOs that rely on the bean counters to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, a tiny little pinch of relief for taxpayers, together with…

I rise to congratulate Philip Morris and the big tobacco lobby because this bill represents a victory of massive proportion for the addictive industry as well as its beneficiaries and supporters here in the Congress. Indeed, big tobacco is…

pipelines are certainly important in supplying our Nation's energy needs. But in Travis County, Texas, when gasoline is to be pumped through a 50-year-old line not designed for gasoline located within a few feet of 11 public schools and…

in June this Congress approved the first substantive reform of our campaign finance laws since 1979. The bipartisan vote for approval followed months of discussion of the perverse impact on our democracy of clandestine political…

I am joining a cancer survivor, the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick), our colleague, in what is truly a bipartisan recognition of excellence as we introduce legislation to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Lance Armstrong…

Is not it true, in fact, that what they did was to have a focus group or they got some high-powered, expensive political consultant to tell them what going by any meeting of the American Association of Retired Persons or retired teachers…

I think that is just such a critical point. The pharmaceutical industry has been masquerading under something called Citizens for Better Medicare. It sounded like from the news report that the gentleman from New Jersey read that the…

In short, we have been there and done that in this House, have not we? We have already had a vote on that very proposal which was really a plan not to help the seniors of this country but to help the insurance companies to reach out and…

Since the name of the great Lone Star State has been invoked here, I have to tell my colleagues about an experience that I had... there was that kind of price discrimination.

And even though they were going to get a general subsidy, they did not know whether they could ever provide the policies. I believe though Texas, unfortunately, has been way behind on doing anything to assist our seniors, there have been…

I believe that their famous comment on that of one of the insurance folks was that it would be like insurance for haircuts being proposed.

that is so very vital. We have talked about the fact that too many of our seniors are forced to choose between groceries and prescriptions and to make very challenging decisions. For some it is literally a matter of life and death. I had a…

when we hear the story like the one that was just recounted, a person who is going to be facing $17,000 in bills with no remedy, we have to ask, well, why is this Congress not out here working on it tonight. It was a little over a year ago…

That is the vote we will be taking today, whether to reward these companies that charge Americans more money than anywhere else in the world, reward them by giving them a tax subsidy?

to those who say it is not significant, nor should it be debated today that the American taxpayers will be asked to be unwilling accomplices to the tobacco industry at a cost of $100 million per year; that the pharmaceutical industry will…

A distinguished Arizona citizen commenting on ABC's This Week program made very clear his opposition to foreign sales corporations, as did the Washington Times which referred to the bipartisan involvement, called it ``an almost unanimous…

God bless America and God bless the democracy that involves public participation--a concept at the core of what our American government is all about. Such public participation was not very evident in the process that produced this bill…

Mr. Speaker, at a time when the demands for seniors for real relief on prescription drugs are thwarted in this House, at a time when this House does absolutely nothing about the pharmaceutical companies that engage in price discrimination…

of course, our tax laws should not discriminate against marriage. And if ending such discrimination, if ending the marriage penalty were the true purpose of this initiative, it would have already been law and married couples would have…

I believe the part that was being read regards the ability of any citizen under the Medicare program to be able to go out to their own pharmacy. There will be, under this plan, the right for a guaranteed benefit instead of the ploy that we…

I believe that this is the same bill that was submitted to the Committee on Rules last night and the night before and that they rejected last night, or perhaps it was 2:30 or 3:00 this morning. It is the only genuine Medicare plan that is…

Mr. Speaker, we consider this bill today for one reason and one reason only: the Republicans took a poll. Here are the results in this report. Their pollster told them that Americans believe, ``Republicans aren't doing anything for…

Mr. Speaker, since March, we have called on the House to come together to support in a bipartisan fashion a cleanup of some of the worst excesses in our campaign finance system, what one expert referred to as the most dangerous loophole…