The only people sacrificing, with due respect to the President, the only people sacrificing are the soldiers in Iraq and the loved ones back here at home, and the children in our country who are being given the bill to pay for all of this…

I deeply resent, I deeply resent those who would use our troops as leverage, those who would use our troops as hostages in order to extract from this Congress an agreement to spend $87 billion in Iraq. All of us support our troops, but…

I am not sacrificing for this war. The President has not asked Ted Strickland to sacrifice a thing. I am getting my full salary, my full benefits. No one in this Chamber is sacrificing. And you know the President is not sacrificing. Who is…

we have already appropriated about $65 billion for Iraq, and now the President is asking for $87 billion more. The President wants to do this at a time when he is seeking to increase the copayment for veterans on their prescription drugs…

We know that disabled military retirees are the only Federal employees forced to pay for their own disability. Dollar for dollar they have got to give up their pension benefits in order to collect their disability benefits. We know that…

What we just heard about this being serious business is absolutely true. I was watching TV not many days ago, and William Crystal, who is one of those who beat the war drums leading up to this war, said something. I was so stunned by what…

I just want to elaborate on what the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt) has said. He talked about the increase in poverty. In the New York Times today, "Big Increase Seen in People Lacking Health Insurance, Largest Rise in a…

I went to southeastern Ohio over the weekend, and I talked to people in Shady Side, Ohio and in Bel Air, Ohio, and Youngstown, Ohio, and I heard about infrastructure needs in Ohio. I heard about schools that need to be built. I heard about…

And where Osama bin Laden is still hiding somewhere out there planning the next attack upon our people.

the President in his speech today said that he intended to build 1,000, 1,000 new schools in Iraq. And I serve a district where children are going to schools that are unsafe, where they have so many safety violations because of the age of…

I know of no issue that most clearly shows the differences between the Republican and the Democratic parties than does this issue. President Bush came to Ohio on Labor Day. He stood and he talked about the child tax credit. It was reported…

I believe the President has deceived us, that he has distorted the truth, and that he has engaged in false claims which has taken us into a war which is daily claiming the lives of our soldiers. The President and his administration told us…

And we are talking about if we had an additional $1.8 billion, we could include those veterans. We are quibbling over $1.8 billion when we are being asked to approve $87 billion for Iraq. It is beyond belief.

last spring I received an e-mail from a sixth grade math teacher by the name of Dawn Spurr. Dawn teaches in a small town in my district, and she wrote to me just after she had given her students a standardized test that she did not feel…

I hope the Secretary never says that in my presence, because if he does, I am going to have to challenge him. None of us, none of us condone terrorism. In fact, we are here because we are concerned that this administration is not…

Absolutely. Mr. Speaker, I got a letter from a young West Point graduate. He graduated from West Point just literally a few months ago. He is in Baghdad tonight. He wrote me about 2 months ago. He said, Congressman, they are issuing two…

They have a gag order. They have instructed their doctors and social workers and nurses who work in our VA hospitals, they have told them they cannot participate in community health fairs. They cannot send out newsletters informing our…

The American people really do not care what word we use, but they understand what has happened. They listened to the President go on TV and address the national audience. They heard his references to a connection between al Qaeda and Iraq…

the fact is that if the efforts of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) had been successful in years past, it is very possible that August 16 would not have happened. It is a simple fact, and I want my colleagues to listen to this…

That is right. But we all know that talk is cheap. And the fact is that there are a lot of lofty words spoken in this Chamber, but we have a serious problem. There are moms and dads and sweethearts and husbands and wives, children, whose…

despite the Republicans' promise to veterans during the budget process, we find ourselves with a VA-HUD appropriations bill that is shamefully inadequate. We have cut the $3.4 billion increase that we promised veterans in half. Even though…

this is an interesting debate because it is not primarily between Democrats and Republicans; it is between the people and the pharmaceutical companies. The gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), the distinguished chair of my committee…

as we debate in this Chamber today, I believe a vast majority of the American people are angry. And why are they angry? They are angry because over the last 3 years, since President Bush came into office, this country has lost…

Reclaiming my time, please, Mr. Speaker, I will acknowledge that the gentleman's statistics are correct, but what has happened with trade between this country and Mexico? The imbalance has increased dramatically in their favor. I recognize…

I sat in the living room of one of my constituents not long ago and he looked at the television and he said, ``Congressman, I would be willing to pay $50 more or $100 more for a TV if I could buy one that was manufactured in America by my…