Jay Inslee

If I may, I would like to attempt to answer the question why we are in Iraq rather than Iran, and the answer is because we have an administration who is willing to follow their ideology rather than the evidence. They are willing to say…

Mr. Chairman, we appreciate my friend from Arizona's impassioned interest in trying to improve the performance of our fuel reduction program to reduce the fuel loading on our forests. But the question I have is, where were the Republicans…

And Mr. Chalabi in the press reports said, well, somebody in the agency of the United States government told me when they were drunk, and this guy who had the President give $40 million to then disclosed some of the most sensitive…

That is one of the best rhetorical questions the gentleman has ever posed and very successfully; and it is accurate that the Senate and the House are now under the control of our friends, the Republicans, for the last 2 years.

We need elections sooner rather than later in Iraq to vest them with their own destiny, and I will offer an amendment to do that as well.

We have a different opinion. This gentleman has not been sanctioned. This gentleman has not lost an hour of overtime.

I just wanted to note, following the horrendous situations in our prison camps, a lot of folks thought the only reason people were calling for the Secretary of Defense's replacement was that problem. But that was only the straw that broke…

If it was one failure, wars are tough, some things go wrong; and if it was one failure, maybe we would be in the excusing mode. But it is interesting. Of all of the failures that have happened in Iraq from day one, not one single person…

I do not think the Iraqi new ``sovereign,'' whatever they are, should feel badly because our Secretary of State did not find out about the war until the ambassador of Saudi Arabia did first.

I think they know, especially with the deficit, the cost of this war; and he is not willing to talk about his tax cuts to pay for it because he doesn't want anybody to make a sacrifice in this war except the soldiers, sailors, Marines, and…

I could be mistaken, but I do not recall any. The way this one happened is she agreed to brief the Republican colleagues, and only later as an afterthought, at our request, apparently, offered to brief the Democratic colleagues. We have…

Is it appropriate for the Speaker, who presides over this Chamber, when there is a clear and direct personal attack using personally disparaging comments about a Member of the United States Senate on a repeated basis, is it appropriate or…

It is clear that our country did not have things to be proud of at the time that the Kurds were gassed. We could talk at length about that.

It is apparent the questions asked by the President were not about the inspection program. The statements were ``let's go bomb Iraq, because there are no targets in Afghanistan,'' or something to that effect.

But that number is really kind of a fake number, and the reason is that it fails to take into account the jobs that should have been created under any sort of normal rate of economic growth. The truth is we have lost specifically about 2.2…

Just one final note. There is a reason that the Vice President of the United States refuses to let the people who hired him, which is the American people, know what went on in this secret operation that took lobbyist language and put it in…

The fact is we should have been cracking down on Saudi Arabia a long time ago. We should have been cracking down on the Pakistani fellow that we found was purveying nuclear technology all over the world and, instead we have been involved…

I think it was something like 15 out of the 19, and yet this administration, I want to know why they flew out these people two days after September 11 without the full, complete, comprehensive interrogation of these individuals, including…

And there is a moral obligation by the United States Government to come forward and answer some of these questions that we have been asking tonight. The people of this country, the families who have servicepeople serving in Iraq, those who…

I feel very strongly that these are just some of the questions that our government has a duty to answer. One of the reasons I feel so strongly about that is that this afternoon, I had a very painful discussion with a family in Bremerton…

But what we are saying is the seniors of the greatest generation simply deserve better than this bill, and we ought to be capable of doing better, so that we do not have a bill that is too little and too late, we believe both.

When this premium support kicks in, no senior in America will have any choice about the matter. You will be subject to a provision that you will have to pay more money out of pocket when the HMOs take the healthy people into the private…

The soldiers are paying for it with their lives. But in financial terms, it is our young who are going to be saddled with this debt, billions of dollars of debt, and it is our older folks, including veterans, who are not going to get their…

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore includes 64 miles of shoreline along the northeastern edge of Lake Michigan. I want to commend the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak) for their great work…

I just want to say there is total bipartisan agreement that Americans are sick and tired of having their dinners interrupted by these calls, and today that is going to stop. I just want to answer the people who have raised…