David Obey

I yield myself 13 minutes. Mr. Speaker, I do not know quite what to say about this continuing resolution. I have a lot of notes here, most of which I will not use, but let me simply note that this is another case of the failure to…

last year in the conference on the disaster supplemental, Senate conferees passed a provision extending the MILC program for 2 years, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Sherwood) and I had lined up enough votes on the House side to…

last week I returned to Washington along with about 20 other Members of the House in order to assure passage of the initial down payment of $10 billion for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Today we will be voting to provide $52 billion…

No, I do not think so. I think there is always room in this place for protest votes, and this is one occasion when I intend to exercise it; but I thank the gentleman for his efforts.

let me conclude on this side by making four simple points. First of all, one of the previous speakers tried to suggest that, in fact, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) had not been fired by the majority party caucus because he had…

the practical result of the point of order lodged by the gentleman from Florida is to make the credit card companies the only people in America who can raise the price of something you bought after you bought it. If people are comfortable…

all I can say to our Republican friends on the other side of the aisle is: ``Welcome Aboard,'' even if you are a little short and even if you are a little late. The fact is that for the last 3 years we have had a history of resistance by…

I rise to be heard on the point of order. Section 945 to which the gentleman objects is in this bill for the purpose of ending a practice under which a credit card company can jack up a cardholder's interest rates to the default rate which…

I ask unanimous content that the Clerk read the amendment in its entirety. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the Clerk will report the amendment. There was no objection. The Clerk read the amendment. The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of…

I simply add to the gentleman's thoughts this point. I find it quaint, indeed, that this House would appear to want to try to promote the freedom of Cubans by denying freedom to Americans. That makes no sense to me. The last time I looked…

I would have to reluctantly concede because of the warped rules which the majority party passed out of the Committee on Rules, which protected countless other provisions from points of order, but neglected to protect this section so that…

with that understanding, I would be happy to withdraw my reservation of objection and wish Mr. Knollenberg good luck. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there further objection to the request of the gentleman from Michigan? There was no…

3 million jobs that have been destroyed in the first place by the policies of the very administration that you are bragging about. You destroyed 3 million jobs and then gradually the economy recovered and you built back so you came back to…

I oppose this rule for two reasons. One is because of this, a little piece of plastic called a credit card. All too often, little cards like this are issued by bloodsuckers. This bill, as it went to the Committee on Rules, contained a…

Let me say that thank God there were some jobs added in the last few months of the Bush presidency, that made up for the 3\1/2\ million jobs that were lost from the first 3 years of his presidency.

You came within 100,000 jobs of being first President since Herbert Hoover not to add a single job in his term. It was the most anemic job growth of any president since Herbert Hoover.

if I could just say, I would be most curious to know what the administration is clearly saying on this subject. I have just received a message which indicates that the administration is pleased with the language in the committee bill. I…

this bill spends a lot of money on foreign aid, but there is a major problem with this bill today. And that problem is not money that the bill contains. It is money that the bill does not contain. Last week we were told by the Veterans…

I would not describe it as breaking the agreement. If the gentleman would be kind enough to let me explain what I think has happened here. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) both missed…

Reclaiming my time, let me simply say, I would be willing to let this amendment go by and have it temporarily accepted by the House, provided that there is an understanding that the committee reserves the right to change its mind during…

in that case, I somewhat dubiously will withdraw any objection to this amendment for the moment and hope that we can clarify it further as we go to conference. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

I would simply say that while I am dubious about the content of several of these amendments, in the interest of moving the bill forward, I would also urge that we accept the en bloc amendments and move on to the others.

this is a simple, straight motion to recommit so that the committee can repair the shortcomings in the education, health care and worker protection programs in the bill, and so that the committee can respond to the announcement of the…

in light of Karl Rove's savage attack on the patriotism of liberals in this country, I have a couple of questions. Two days after 9/11, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and I, on a bipartisan basis, pushed a $20 billion package…

with respect to Pell grants, the College Board has indicated that the cost of attending a 4-year public university has increased by $2,300 since the President became President. The President decided to fix that problem by raising Pell…