It is a sad fact that just yesterday we observed the 1,000th death of a soldier in Iraq, and that is a tragedy. When you think of what that means, not only to the individual lives that have been lost, but when you think of the pain and…

You are the people who are really doing God's work, because you believe in community. You understand that none of us really gets through this life as individuals. All of us need help and receive help. It may be from our parents, our…

But can you imagine the American citizen is being told, you cannot voluntarily travel to Cuba. You cannot go down there and enjoy a few days vacation or interact with your friends or families except once every 3 years, because they are a…

My prediction is this: President Bush will not return to Canton, Ohio, to the Timken plant during this election year, because the people there are hurting. They know that although they worked hard, although they increased productivity…

I am sometimes amazed and sometimes appalled at what I perceive to be the hypocrisy of this administration. Recently, with the approval of the Bush administration and this Congress, a decision was made that Cubans living in this country…

I think what my friend is describing is the middle-class squeeze. The fact that in America today the people who play by the rules, who work, who want to work, who want to pay their taxes, support their churches, invest in their…

There are people who live in Never-Never Land. People in this administration must live in Michael Jackson's Never-Never Land because they seem totally out of touch. The President comes to Ohio and he talks about how the economy is doing…

The fact is if we do not wake up and smell the coffee in a few years, and I am talking about a handful of years, we are going to find that China is going to eat our lunch economically. They have billions of people. They do not have the…

Speaking about China, job loss, the needs that we have, I have a chart here that shows that since President Bush has been in office, I am talking about the period from January 2001 through April of 2004, 48 of our 50 States have lost…

Ohio's theme has been ``Ohio, The Heart of It All.'' It is true that Ohio is the heartland of our Nation. Ohio probably more than any other State is a microcosm of this great Nation. We have the Great Lakes to the north, the majestic Ohio…

I think this may indicate something that I think we intuitively feel, that under this administration the wealthy have done very well. There are people in this country who have got significant tax breaks, who are capable of paying $600 a…

wages are now at the lowest point in terms of the purchasing power that they have been in 2 years, and the typical American family is making nearly $1,500 less per year than they were when George Bush was elected President.

the world now knows that the Bush administration withheld reliable information regarding the true cost of the Medicare privatization bill they pushed through this House in the middle of the night. According to The New York Times today, and…

I think you can go downstairs here in this Capitol building and look in the stairwell and actually see pock marks where bullets were fired during that period of time right here in this building, the Capitol building. And Abraham Lincoln in…

I was amazed, but as I checked into it, it was not a misprint, $10,000 per night. Apparently there are hotels that have those kinds of prices. There were also accusations made that Halliburton was paying $100 for one bag of laundry, and…

Just recently, the Columbus Dispatch, the major newspaper in Ohio's capital city, had an editorial, and they pointed out that former Halliburton employees have made accusations that Halliburton housed some of their employees in hotel rooms…

The Vice President uttered on the floor of the United States Senate a graphic, sexual obscenity that is, I think, beneath the office. And the gentleman is right, when he was asked about it, he indicated he was not sorry he said it; in…

I mean, when we see what the State Department has done, and they tried, and I think Colin Powell actually made a genuine effort to tell the President what was what about Iraq. But the Vice President of the United States saw fit to go out…

almost 4 years ago, President Bush came to the office of the Presidency having lost the popular vote in this country by over 500,000 votes, having endured a disputed election in Florida, where there were multiple charges and accusations of…

One of my constituents, a young West Point graduate, a gung-ho Army guy, a guy who loves the Army and who would write me these e-mails and say, I am so proud of what my soldiers are doing here in Iraq. So he is not a disgruntled Army guy…

Those who listen to these proceedings may rightly ask the question, why are we talking about the failures of the past? Why are we not talking about what we are going to do in the future? I think it is relevant to remind ourselves that the…

I will not yield. It is the vote that gives the benefits to the veteran, not the talk, and what we have is talk. As I have said before, rhetoric is empty unless it is followed up with the willingness to cast the vote to make the resources…

Some people do not really understand what we mean when we talk about the disabled veterans tax. But it is a discrimination against veterans. If a veteran is an individual who has served the country and has qualified to receive a pension…

The fact is that we are here because we are concerned about veterans and the fact that this administration is woefully underfunding VA health care. The truth is that since President Bush came to office, he has sent to this Congress budgets…

What the gentleman is describing here are the values embraced by this Congress, and some people seem to think it is more important to give tax cuts to people who make over $200,000 a year than it is to put sufficient resources into caring…