I would point out that more than half of all disaster relief since 1993 has gone to just four States: Louisiana, Florida, California--the gentleman's home State--and Mississippi; and 80 percent of all disaster relief since 1993 has gone to…

I would simply say, Mr. Speaker, that the White House submitted this request for disaster relief over a month ago. Everyone in this institution has known about it; in addition to which, the gentleman's staff has known for a good 2 weeks…

Why do you keep saying we're borrowing money to add to the summer youth program when this bill fully offsets every dime that we're spending on it?

We are not adding one dime to the deficit by what we are adding to the summer jobs program. We are fully paying for it by cuts in other programs.

There is one difference between my friends over here who are speechifying against health care reform today and 50 million Americans. The difference is that the roughly 15 Americans over here all have health insurance, and it is largely…

This is a very human institution, and it's affected very much by our personal relationships with one another. Very frankly, for the first 20 years that Jack and I served on the Appropriations Committee, we were often adversaries. There…

I feel an obligation on behalf of the families, there were 30 people from my District who died in the attack on 9/11.

I think to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed greater rights than we give an American man or woman who serves in the military is wrong.

I think the gentleman from Florida has summed up the situation pretty well. In December, the House and Senate passed a 5-day continuing resolution in order to give the President time to sign the Defense appropriations bill. The President…

In a one-year experimental period, in the worst drug market in Nassau County, the level of drug arrests have been reduced by 80 percent.

The most powerful voice in those meetings, and this is what we did in Mr. Davis' district as well, is the voice of the community.

A test of a moral society is what kind of future it leaves for its future generations.

I think in the year 2030 every dollar of taxpayer money that comes in will go for Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and interest on the debt.

The push for national standards has always been fought by those people who say that, you know, we should have local control of schools.

this Congress is broken. This place does not work.

Hilary Clinton went over to China and was literally with a tin cup begging the Chinese to buy our paper.

one of the real fallacies of No Child Left Behind is that it suggests that somehow we should get a comparable result when we do not have a comparable opportunity for our young people to learn.

Every member ought to know what they are prepared to be defeated for.

But we can't afford not to--rigorously look at how we can continue to be ahead in terms of education and be innovative.

But the truth of the matter is that I think we know better and that it does matter.

And so the enemy is not external. Pogo said it, 'We met the enemy, and the enemy is us.'

I can understand a certain amount of confusion, but that was not confusion; that was madcap chaos that I saw on that street.

The fact is, without the earmarking process, the White House and its anonymous bureaucrats would make every single spending decision in government.

The fact is without the earmarking process, the White House and its anonymous bureaucrats would make every single spending decision in government.

I would like to make sure that the money that is spent is actually going to do something, because it is a lot of money, and it is a big problem to deal with.