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Mr. Chairman, I cannot help but respond to some of the previous speaker's comments. The previous speaker quoted accurately President Kennedy who said that we would ``pay any price and bear any burden in the defense of freedom.'' That is a…
This is not a debate about 9/11. After 9/11, Chairman Young and I pushed through the House a $40 billion appropriation to respond to the events that led to that sneak attack. Chairman Young and I then led an effort to add billions of…
Millie and Tip O'Neill were members of the Studs Terkel generation. They were Democrats because they saw the Democratic Party as a vehicle to help the common people of this country. They were Democrats who accepted human nature. They did…
Mr. Speaker, the House bill does not contain and the Senate Labor HHS bill does contain an important provision which affects millions of American workers. That provision would preclude the Department of Labor from issuing any regulation…
I cannot believe one thing that I just heard. The distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula) I believe said that if this were to be included in the conference report, the White House would veto the bill. I really want to see whether…
I will simply repeat again, the effect of this motion does not deny the Labor Department the right to add a single worker to overtime protections that they provide under their adjustments. All it does is to prevent, to prevent workers who…
The fact is that the motion that we are offering today does, I repeat does, D-O-E-S, does allow the Labor Department regulations that add people to overtime protection. We do accept those updated definitions. What we do not accept is the…
No, I will not. The gentleman has had his time to bloviate. This is my time. As I was saying, Mr. Speaker, the issue is very simple. Are you going to protect the up to 8 million workers who will be knocked out of protection for overtime if…
Mr. Speaker, for 70 years, overtime pay has meant time and a half in this country. Without overtime, countless Americans, including police officers, firefighters, nurses, and EMTs would be forced to take a second job to make up for the…
Mr. Speaker, this continuing resolution will, I assume, be known as the Halloween appropriation bill for the year 2003, because what it does is to extend government activities until October 31 of this coming year. I am looking around the…
Last year, in order to pretend that the budget resolution provided adequate funding for education, the committee provided what was known as ``advance funding'' for education to the tune of $2.2 billion. That meant that, for Enron…
I take some pride in the fact that our friendship has withstood the context in which that friendship operates every day. I think, frankly, that the unreal demands on the part of the power centers in this institution have put greater…
Mr. Speaker, I think the public has a right to ask the Congress why it sometimes ignores the obvious. This bill today, despite all of the good words said about it, in one respect ignores the obvious. When we passed the conference report on…
the gentleman from Kentucky, the chairman of the subcommittee, indicated that this bill needed ``sensible'' amounts of money. I would say that I would agree with that, except for one thing: terrorists are not ``sensible,'' and that means…
I think the message here is simple: If Members think that our ports are safe enough, our borders are safe enough, our airlines are safe enough, then by all means, vote against this motion. But if you recognize that they are not, then you…
It is not appropriate, however, that we will be considering a conference bill in which the budget allocation of the House and Senate equals only $29.4 billion, a mere 2.3 percent above today's funding. That does not even equal inflation…
we have just been told that this rule is an open rule. That is an absolutely meaningless statement. What the majority has done once again is to waive the rules of the House for the majority product, but then refuse to waive those same…
I did not say that that provision should be stricken. What I said is that if you want to make money for the taxpayers, you can haul in a lot more money to the Treasury by using that same hundred million dollars to go after people with real…
I simply want to say that before this year is done, we are going to need a lot more supplemental funding than we have before us in the bill that will be brought to the floor under this rule. There is no question we are going to need money…
I personally would prefer that there would be no federally financed disaster programs. I have introduced legislation which would require every State in the Union to buy into a federally run insurance plan so that on an experience-rated…
everyone knows that there is a crisis in veterans health care in this country. All too often a veteran who has prostate cancer will be told that it is going to be 3 months before he can see a specialist. There are delays in seeing almost…
I invite any Member of this House on either side of the aisle who is disquieted about this to call my office and indicate their willingness to join me in sponsoring the legislation that I have described that would set up an…
I do not appreciate having to take lectures from the Committee on the Budget. Let me tell my colleague the sleight of hand that that committee played. They pretended that they provided additional money for veterans. They pretended that…
so I intend to vote with the administration, but I intend to ask other members of my party to watch the board. If we have Republican votes go up there along with ours, then fine, I think we have an obligation to do our duty and support the…
Mr. Chairman, I have been following events in Colombia since 1957, and I would like to think that the money that we are spending there is well spent and will reach a useful conclusion. I wish I could say that, but after watching that…
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