the leadership of this House should be ashamed to bring this bill to the floor. We are going to vote for it, obviously, because it is better than nothing, but it is nearly nothing. The President said in his last press conference that he…

a point well taken because I have had three of my constituents killed in this war. The last one I heard about today, a 21-year-old Marine who had served time in Iraq came home for a brief period of time and was married, was sent back, and…

I received a call a few days ago from a soldier returning after 14 months in Iraq. He said, ``Congressman, your Ford Explorer that you drive around is better armored than the Humvee that I drove around Iraq.'' The fact is so many of the…

This very night we have young soldiers and middle-age soldiers in Iraq driving around in Humvees that are not armored. It puts them at greater risk. This problem can be solved much more quickly than the Pentagon is willing to solve it. I…

we are going to be leaving Washington, D.C. this afternoon and going back to our home districts, and it saddens me that we are leaving Washington without extending the unemployment benefits that are so desperately needed by so many…

I think it is a sad and a tragic fact that the President, Secretary Rumsfeld, this administration, sent our troops into battle without providing them with adequate protection. As a result, there are those who probably have lost their lives…

I mentioned the fact that we have so many wounded coming back from Iraq. I would just like to share with my friend that recently it was reported that during World War II we had three soldiers seriously wounded for every soldier that was…

Dear Representative, As the National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans, I write to urge you to oppose and vote against H. Con. Res. 393, the House budget resolution for fiscal year 2005. And then the letter goes on and talks…

The fact is that he should come to Ohio, because Ohio is a suffering State. Ohio has lost approximately 300,000 jobs since the President has been in office. About 160,000 of those jobs have been good paying manufacturing jobs, living wage…

I would ask him why he has not requested a sufficient amount of funding to provide these armored vehicles and the kits that can provide armory to the vehicles that are already over there so that our soldiers will not have their arms and…

And the fact is that it should not take a year to correct a problem. It should not take months to get body armor to our troops. Do my colleagues know what the Pentagon is saying now? They are saying it will be at least the end of 2005…

Mr. Speaker, my constituents are kind, caring, gracious people; but they have a hard time understanding why the steelworkers losing their jobs along the Ohio River, and as a result of bankruptcy of the steel industry, losing their health…

But if we want a secure country, with stable families and secure communities, we had better change our way, because we are going to lose the American way of life. We are going to lose the middle class, and we are going to lose the ability…

I remember when NAFTA was passed some 10 years ago; and David Bonior stood on this floor, as did others, and told us the truth. The other side told us what we now know are falsehoods. They told us if we pass NAFTA we are going to create…

I represent people who are desperate for jobs. Now, in a little town that my colleague represents that I think he is familiar with, Salem, Ohio, there is a company, the Elger Company. They make bathroom sinks and wash basins and so on…

The State of Ohio has been devastated, absolutely devastated and especially my district that stretches all along the Ohio River, some 330 miles. I have perhaps the poorest, the oldest, and the sickest district in Ohio. I have got lots of…

when the President was interviewed on Sunday, he told the American people that the Congress had the same intelligence available to them as he had available to him. And that was not true. No one told us that there was ambiguity. The…

the fact is, at the time he used those weapons we were cooperating with him. The first Bush administration was cooperating with him. He was a part of our team, so to speak, because we felt it was best if Iraq would be able to prevail over…

Absolutely. If I can just point out something that I think the observer of this Iraq Watch may be asking, why are these Members going so far back in history? Why are they regurgitating facts that happened more than 10 years ago? I think it…

if I may just respond, I think many of us watched the President's interview last Sunday morning with Tim Russert, and the President continuously called Saddam Hussein a madman. I have no problem with that. He is a despicable human being…

What happened was that shortly after 9/11 when it became clear that most of the terrorists of 9/11 were Saudis, the Saudi government feared that there would be retribution and vigilantism in the United States against the Saudis. That…

That is Mr. Donald Rumsfeld, and we have pictures of Mr. Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. Back in those days, the fact that he was a dictator and cruel and vicious to his own people and used chemical weapons against the Kurds…

may I point out something to my friend. The U.N. inspections worked. The U.N. inspectors were in Iraq. They were asking for additional time. It was this government that terminated the inspections right before this war began. And the fact…

We cannot even find out who served on the Vice President's energy task force, let alone have access to all the intelligence that the President has available.

Can I ask a question about that, because the heading across the gentleman's chart says ``Licensed Dual Use Exports to Iraq by U.S. Companies, 1985 to 1990.'' When we use the phrase ``dual use,'' does that mean that what has been exported…