Jay Inslee

If a State's basic adulteration law is identical to the Federal adulteration law, can a State apply that law as it determines to be proper?

I would like to be certain that I understand the requirement in the bill that State food safety laws be identical to the ten sections of Federal law that are listed in section 2(a)(6) of the bill. Am I correct that each of these ten…

So we could actually send people on six-month cruises for half the price that we're paying to actually have people sit at the dock.

So it actually costs the taxpayers about $3,500 a week and you can go on a cruise for $599 a week.

Would it be fair to say that if these assertions are true, someone put political convenience ahead of national security? I will make that a rhetorical question.

Well, we would stand for the proposition that political pettiness does not justify a breach of national security. I hope we can have bipartisan consensus on that. I would like to yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hinchey).

Those who believe in privacy and not being dictated to by the U.S. Congress in their most private, intimate decisions should vote against this amendment. Two friends of mine my age recently went in for prostate treatment. When you go in…

I would, just in support of this amendment, report how successful our country has been previously with this experience. I want to point to a graph showing our fuel efficiency in 1975, that when we were adopting fuel efficiency standards…

I think I know, if I can posit a hypothesis, in general how the President would answer, perhaps in more diplomatic terms than I will offer, but I think he would say: Mr. Strickland, with all due respect, you just do not get it. Our…

Exactly, Mr. Speaker. And if the gentleman will continue to yield, three times, three times the amount of money it would take to fix this problem with veterans so they would not have to stand in line for 6 months to get treatment when they…

My perception of this is that here we had a Republican Member who is stalwart in attempting to preserve and improve the veterans' health care in our country, who was willing to rock the boat to do that, had the moral fiber to do that, and…

I have to call a mother and father who lost their 19-year-old Marine in Fallujah this week tomorrow, and it is very difficult because all three of us here this evening voted against this war, and we have all had this experience of talking…

We will note that we will continue our discussion about Iraq in the weeks to come. We owe this obligation to our men and women serving proudly tonight. We will not be intimidated into stopping to ask these hard questions of the Federal…

I really think that is a perceptive comment, what he said, which I agree with, that while Iraq may not have presented a terrorist threat before this invasion, it does now. And I think that is a very perceptive thing to say and I agree.

My fifth question: Was the President right or wrong when he said or the assumption was made that not all of our troops needed body armor and we did not need heavy armor in the streets of Baghdad because only the people in the front lines…

I believe the reason that Halliburton is doing that is that they do not want to deal with the difficulty of hiring Iraqis. With all due respect, we have to get the Iraqis involved in their own economy, or they are never going to be on…

No-go zones, Mr. Speaker. And the problem is the no-go zones are not going to be no-go zones permanently. At some point we are going to have to ask American sons and daughters to go into Fallujah, and they are going to be fired at by…

There was a very startling occurrence that happened yesterday in this regard. Secretary of State Powell said there was no link to 9/11 to Saddam Hussein. Yet the Vice President continues in this effort.

I want to note getting back to the war on terrorism, where is Osama bin Laden? Where is Osama bin Laden? Why is the President not talking about Osama bin Laden, who is free tonight threatening our citizens where they live in our…

Finally, does the gentleman agree that the House should strongly encourage the conferees to the defense authorization bill to retain the language in the House Report requiring the Secretary of Energy to engage the National Research Council…

I think I understand the nature of the gentleman's argument. But the problem that we have on this side is that not only have we offered an amendment in the appropriations process to allow refunds for Americans who have been gouged by…

Well, yes. In fact, we have spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money looking for that, but they apparently do not exist. Now, let me suggest one thing that the President of the United States could have done to help his fellow…

Of course, I am referring to the Secretary of Defense, who is the primary architect for this, and Mr. Wolfowitz, who is an architect of this. These are the decisionmakers that should be held accountable for these foul-ups. I hope the…

I suspect the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) agrees with me that when you look in the eyes of a young widow, as I have, who lost their husband as a result of this multitude of falsehoods by this administration, it matters a whole…

So despite the best intelligence of the United States of America, the Vice President is willing to continue to spout something that is false, according to our best intelligence, in order to back up this ideological fixation of invading…