Jay Inslee

And in making these arguments, I don't think any of us are apologetic for the fact that our constituents and families have been very active in the Boeing Company. My uncles and cousins, I remember my best friend growing up in south…

The Air Force's evaluation of military construction costs in calculating the offerer's most probable life cycle cost for their proposed aircraft was unreasonable. When the agency, during the protest, conceded that it made a number of…

And by the way, there seems to be no doubt, these statistics we're giving are essentially inarguable. Airbus is not contesting the fact that the Boeing airplane is 24 percent more fuel. This is just fact. The GAO find that this is, I…

I think you seized on a very important point. This was not a decision by the GAO that they're just going to change this decision because they decided to favor American jobs. Now, we think that's a really important point, but the really…

We have solutions. What we don't have is a President in the White House who will sign these bills or the Republicans who will break a filibuster in the Senate. You have got a Presidential candidate running this year who didn't vote to…

And I hope we don't have to vote. I hope this protest is successful. But we will be looking at the right ways for Congress to exercise the will of the American people through the appropriation or authorization process. And the reason we…

So do I take it that in the current situation we would be issuing a contract for up to $40 billion with no enforcement mechanism to enforce the American content situation. Is that a fair statement?

Well, we have a ways to go, but we have made five maybe not-so-small steps for a few people here in Congress and in America. We have one giant leap for mankind to come. But we have got a great start, and this is going to help Americans…

We know we can do this. We know, because we have had success. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, we improved our mileage of our cars by 60 percent. Then in 1994 those efforts stopped and we stopped making any progress. Our cars are getting…

I want to note as far as cycling, as a biker myself, the things we are talking about in a lot of communities that are improving their bike options, we are just giving people options. This is not the storm troopers coming down making…

This bill is about discrimination, but it is also about economic competition. Thinking about this bill today, I was thinking about the 1964 University of Washington Huskies football team that went to the Rose Bowl. They had a slashing…

I would just like to submit that the day we yield to Canadian judgment, we would replace baseball with ice hockey. It is not the American principle. We have a strong Marine Mammal Protection Act. It has a clear loophole. We do not want the…

I want to thank Mr. Barton for reading Dr. Norwood's eloquent statement into the Record. I want to note that kidney donation is not just for the recipients. It is for their families and the places they work, and even the U.S. Congress. The…

Regarding clean coal, we believe clean coal could be part of our energy future, and we need to do research in it to find a way to sequester carbon dioxide so that resource can be used. But in doing so, we can only do it if we have some…

We know this can be done because in the 1970s and early 1980s we increased our gas mileage by 60 percent in 8 years. If we had simply continued on that path with the same rate of improvement, we would be free of Saudi Arabian oil today. We…

When that day arrives they will write a sequel to Tom Wolfe's book about the Mercury 7 program, and he called it ``The Right Stuff.'' Tomorrow Congress is going to have the right stuff. We are going to do a good energy policy.

And what we are finding is that more and more companies are actually accepting this idea, thinking it is a good idea because one, it will drive innovation. It will help us invent new technologies. But second, they realize this works. What…

I really do believe this is a historic moment for the industrial base and agricultural base of America, which is today's date, to start to move to a new base away from just a dirty fossil fuel-based system to a clean energy system. We are…

I want to make clear it is not the impression in people's minds that counts in Congress. It is what is in people's bills, and in this bill is nothing to solve the Kelo problem. We should not let anger about Kelo allow developers to game…

Well, you pointed out something that I just realized. President Bush, when he ran for office back in 2000, said he would be the great uniter. Many of us have been disappointed, in fact, that he has divided the country like no President in…

After this conference of Tehran between the axis of evil and the new government the President has created in Iraq, one of the leaders described the other leader as their, quote, good friend. I don't know if it was the President of Iran…

If you will yield just for a moment, I just want to make sure members understand what we are voting on. If this amendment passes, the President of the United States and his executive authority will be able to continue to listen to these…

I appreciate your courtesy, and I do think this is an important debate. I appreciate your perspective. I want to ask you a forthright question. Do you understand that under the scenario you have posed, that you can go over the executive…

We will certainly be pleased to work with the Chair if there is any tinkering necessary. I would yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rehberg).

We have a very commonsense amendment that would simply say that we will not be using funds in FERC to allow FERC to rule in favor of Enron against civil utilities and several companies around the country who signed contracts with Enron. We…