it has been said that the only means of conservation is innovation, and I believe that is what Vice President Gore had in mind in recommending an innovative proposal called Better America Bonds. I joined him back in January of this year…

this Republican tax bill has declared Christmas while it sizzles. On this Christmas tree that has been erected here in Washington, one will find a package wrapped up for anyone who has a lobbyist and a political action committee. There is…

Some 21 Members, Democrats and Republicans, some of whom are here on the floor this afternoon have joined in this resolution in a bipartisan acknowledgment of the great success of Lance Armstrong in France this past week. I particularly…

I appreciate the timely consideration of this resolution so that this body could go on record immediately in honoring Lance and all that his effort represents in a strong, bipartisan way. I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my…

There are various ways to deal with this problem, but what the gentleman is spotlighting, those least able to pay get charged the most. I know one very commonly prescribed medication for those over 65 having to do with cholesterol, that it…

I know next week during the recess here in Washington I am going to be meeting with seniors in Austin at a pharmacy to do very much the kind of presentation I know the gentleman has already done in New Jersey, to point out for a…

So to all those major interest groups that are opposing the gentleman's legislation and saying we are going to have cost controls and we are going to threaten research and all these various straw men that they raise to oppose doing…

At least in terms of the time available here, there is no reason why we could not have already considered the Patients' Bill of Rights. And as far as prescription drugs, whether it is the approach the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen) has…

How is it that the Veterans Administration is able to get these prescription drugs at a more reasonable price than an individual veteran not covered, or someone who is on Medicare and not covered can get them?

I have supported this bankruptcy legislation in the past. I believe that it is important to exercise personal responsibility. There have been some abuses of the system. While the bill was not perfect and needed further perfection, I…

But we find ourselves in the curious situation this afternoon that this is one of the rare occasions, perhaps the first since I have been a Member of this body, that the House has moved faster than we have been told on the schedule instead…

limiting debate and blocking all amendments on this question of life and death is all too typical of this House Republican leadership. They would convert the War Powers Act to the ``In War, Powerless Act.'' Through its previous inaction…

I believe it was old Ben Franklin who said, ``In this world nothing is as certain as death and taxes.'' He could have well added, in the present era in our country's life, a third, which is the determination, come April 15, of the…

today Democrats are lining up for reform. We have had enough. We have had enough Republican leadership excuses. We have had enough delay. We want meaningful campaign finance reform. We are here lined up to sign a discharge petition to…

The consideration of this bill is the story of an overwhelming, but rather hollow, victory, and a total policy failure. This Star Wars scheme is, first, a technological failure, failing one test after another, again and again. This system…

The gentlewoman is saying in Chile if we followed that model, there would be businesses in California, in Florida, in Texas that would be totally outside of the system.

We usually think everything is a little bigger and better down in Texas, but in fact the study that you referred to in Galveston, Texas, most everybody there that was left out of Social Security. According to the objective study on it…

And while the study that we heard about today was a simulation using an economic model by a Republican economist, is there not some experience in some of the foreign countries that have moved to these private systems that they have…

The Republican economist who did that simulation on these various privatization schemes, his conclusion was that no group in our society would be a bigger loser than women, and that it did not make any difference, well, it makes a…

Some have suggested that this 10 percent tax cut is just principally designed to help the top 10 percent of Americans.

I have to feel that one of the reasons that some of these Washington think tank ideologues want to break apart the social security system is that they are so committed ideologically against anything that has government in it. They do not…

We do need everybody from California joining in to help us get Social Security legislation here, a piece of legislation that we can all be proud of that will be there for our retirees. [...] it is absolutely vital to them that Social…

It is my belief that Social Security is one of the best programs that ever came out of this House of Representatives and this Congress and this Nation. If we reflect back on the history of this program to a time in this very chamber in the…

That is the whole meaning of the phrase ``save Social Security first.'' We save Social Security first, ahead of anything else, and we do it by the very fiscally responsible step of paying down these trillions of dollars of Federal debt…

It guarantees absolutely nothing in the way of any substantive improvement in the Social Security system. I believe it was not a Democrat but a Republican member of the committee that studied this measure, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr…