Mr. Chairman, I also rise in very strong support of this amendment. The interstate highway system was established in the 1950s, and it has served this country very well. The Congress is very proud of what it has done. But transportation…

I want to speak both to the Chile and Singapore Free Trade Agreements. With regard to Chile, this is going to level the trade playing field for U.S. companies and workers. Chile's uniform tariff of 6 percent will be immediately removed for…

I was prepared to say as I did at the Committee on Rules that we do not really have a problem with this rule or this bill. It, in fact, is the first appropriations bill, at least that I am told, that is less than the previous year. That is…

We are $290 million below the President's request and $34 million below last year's funding level; but given the limitations of the allocation, I think that the chairman and the members of the committee on both sides of the aisle have been…

I believe it would be beneficial for our subcommittee to get advice from a bipartisan group on exactly these scientific issues. It would be useful to receive recommendations on what would be the most efficient, timely, and useful way to…

One of the most objectionable things about this, and I know the gentleman from Ohio recognizes this at this point, is that we had a full set of hearings; Mr. Eagan testified, as did all of the officers of the House. At no point was it ever…

Mr. Chairman, we know that class actions have played a very important role in advancing progressive goals, like civil rights and consumer rights. But something has gone wrong. A lot of trial lawyers will tell us, privately, that this has…

The reason why the gentlewoman and I offered this amendment is that we really have an unfair provision here that... we be treated like every other airport, and that we not have to come back and get this special authority to be able to…

last week President Bush signed the new tax cut law. That law is going to give $93,500 per year to the 200,000 taxpayers making over $1 million a year while the majority of all taxpayers would get less than $100 under this new Republican…

I have voted for the ban on partial-birth abortion at every other point when it has come up. We are talking about a procedure that represents less than one-fifth of 1 percent of the abortions that are performed in this country. Every one…

I just want to say a word about what happened before we went into recess, the fact that we voted on a bill that provided hundreds of billions of dollars of tax relief, but not to the people who needed it the most. In fact, we now see that…

we all strongly support this bill as a needed and overdue national commitment. AIDS is a global crisis which threatens the security of every government in every nation, even including the United States. It has destroyed societies, and it…

I suspect, I know it is a very good question, that they figure the American people are never going to catch on to what they are doing, to what the real cost of these tax cuts are, to the fact that the real cost of these tax cuts is $4.6…

That is the operable phrase, my friend. If you are in a hole, and we are in a very deep deficit hole, you ought to stop digging. In 2001 we were told that the tax cuts of $1.3 trillion were going to revive the economy. They did nothing…

this budget conference report is the most fiscally irresponsible budget ever proposed to this House. When the Bush administration came into office, there was a projected $5.6 trillion 10 year surplus. Under this budget conference report…

we know that you know that this is not a budget you can be proud of because if you were proud of this budget, you would not be bringing it up between 1 and 2 a.m. in the morning when most of the American public is asleep. I do not think…

this legislation is an attempt to provide special legal protection for the gun industry at the expense of innocent Americans who have been harmed by the dangerous and irresponsible actions of some firearm manufacturers and sellers. The gun…

the biggest problem with the tax cut that President Bush has proposed is not that it is going to require over $4 trillion in lost Federal revenue over the next decade, it is not that it is going to create more than a $2 trillion deficit…

the principal thing that people are talking about, particularly the President of this country, is a $600 billion economic stimulus plan. Yet here we are at the same time debating whether we should help a million families whose breadwinner…

I knew Wayne, particularly having had the opportunity to travel to the Middle East with him, and one thing that struck anyone who got to know him was how profoundly proud he was of having served in this institution. He served as an aide to…

I am proud that is the case. But in so many ways, he is a constituent of this entire United States Congress. This is where he chose to spend most of his life, 33 years. Imagine, he has been up there for 33 years, 16 years as Assistant…

a little more than a year after the assaults on New York and Washington, we are still in a heightened state of concern about the safety of our Nation. With the bill we pass today, H.R. 3253, the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency…

Mr. Speaker, there are compelling, fundamental reasons why this body should oppose this resolution. With great power comes great responsibility, great responsibility to conduct our foreign policy in a manner worthy of our world leadership…

I rise today on the first anniversary of 9/11, a day which changed America's history. For the past 12 months, this Nation has collectively experienced a full range of emotion, from the initial fear and uncertainty of that fateful day, to…

I really like and respect its author, but I have to urge my colleagues to vote against the Schakowsky amendment on the Freedom of Information Act. This is a very narrow restriction on public disclosure of information about the private…