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…

Mr. Chairman, the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) threw me for a loop a bit there when he said the language restricting lobbying had been taken out. But in looking through this, it is moot because this has nothing to…

Mr. Chairman, the point I want to make is that we are not opposing privatization, we are not opposing outsourcing, and the point that the gentleman from Oklahoma was trying to make simply is not consistent at all with this amendment. We…

we had an opportunity to pass a rule in a nonpartisan fashion. This should have been a good bill that we could have all agreed on and passed within a few minutes. Unfortunately, because of the rule, we have a problem with this bill. We…

Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman. We were hoping that this would not be struck. I know the gentleman listened to the debate on the rule. It can become a partisan and contentious issue which we would prefer to avoid. That is why we put this language…

We have a good bill here. I was pleased to work with the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor) to craft a legislative branch appropriation bill that really ought to deserve strong bipartisan support. The 302(b) allocation of $3.4…

as the person that represents the Committee on Ways and Means on the Republican side very well knows, there are more than 50 provisions in this bill that required a waiver of a point of order. This provision did not get that waiver and…

think about where we stand in the world today with our concentration of wealth and power. It is comparable almost to the great Greek and Roman civilizations. But what do we remember about those civilizations? It is their art, their…

I want to commend the patriotic contributions of the local roofing companies in Northern Virginia especially who donated labor, money, and supplies, which nationally totaled about half a million dollars, to rebuild the section of the…

let me just share some information regarding USAirways. In the first place, USAirways attempted to sustain its operations as long as possible without having to draw on a Federal loan guarantee. In the second place, as I think the gentleman…

USAirways indicates that it will run out of money by August and it will need the infusion of loan money by then. What this language does is to not make any of that money available until October 1. And unless we can work out some language…

If this rule passes, one of our premier airlines is liable to go out of business because this rule specifically protects language that terminates the airline loan guarantee program. After the events of September 11, we passed legislation…

I have to say, though, that I am convinced that the language in this supplemental appropriations bill does just the opposite. I do know that the Chair of the Committee on Appropriations and the Chair of the subcommittee want to make it…

I will reclaim my time to tell my good friend from Virginia that I know he has been aggressive as well in supporting U.S. Air, but I think the gentleman also knows that on the Senate side they have capped this loan program in such a way…

I have seen the CBO analysis dated today, that it is only $343 million. It is not $1.3 billion.

I deeply regret that I must vote against this resolution, not for what it says, but for what it does not say. Of course I agree with the strong condemnation of Palestinian suicide bombings killing so many innocent Israeli civilians…

it is important to review a little of the chronology leading to today's vote. Only last year, at the end of the Clinton administration, there was a $5.6 trillion surplus forecast. Now, the majority of Democrats said, let us be a little…

I'd like to just say a word about the priest who gave our invocation today. Father Escalante was born in the Philippines. He has his Masters in Divinity from Mount St. Mary's College and Seminary in Maryland. He has been the Associate…

we were just asked to raise the statutory debt ceiling to almost $7 trillion. Why? Because of this budget. This budget increases the interest costs on our debt by over $1 trillion over the next decade. We are going to increase the debt…

all of us have to vote against this rule, because all of us have voted to do so. Unless you were just elected in the past year, every single one of us have voted to protect Social Security and Medicare if at all possible. I offered the…

On September 11, a day forever to be marked in infamy in United States history, one of our Nation's historic landmarks and the operational center of the world's most powerful military was struck by the evils of international terrorism…

This is a budget that we are not familiar with in terms of the underlying assumptions because up until now we have been using numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. Maybe some people that watched the machinations of the budget…

when we have bills that are the result of real compromise before us, it is incumbent upon us to find real consensus. The fact is that this is a balanced bill, and extending unemployment benefits for another 3 months makes sense. We all…

first of all, I take great exception to the majority leader's words that we think that he is a total idiot. Not only is the gentleman very clever, but his amendment is very clever. It is not the words that are the problem, it is the…

the greatest democracy in the world deserves the best and most equitable electoral system. This bill will restore voter turnout and, most importantly, voter confidence. What happened a year ago was neither fair nor right. It was not fair…