Gerald Kleczka

I would challenge him to tell the House when we passed legislation to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for everybody in this country. There is a discharge petition pending and I challenge him to sign it if he is serious about that…

So this is 2002. So we are talking about something that might happen and might not happen in 8 years from now?

But is it not true that they would stand to lose money in 2010 if we do not repeal the sunset?

It is also true that last October we passed a ``stimulus'' bill, a bill which repealed the alternative minimum tax for businesses, but made it retroactive to 1986, giving IBM one check for $1.4 billion, GM a check for $850 million, and…

But then, lo and behold, we have the worst tragedy to beset this Nation on Tuesday; and operators in the city of Milwaukee, like some other unsatisfactory operators, have to raise the price of gas dramatically. This does not resolve the…

I cannot dispute that. In part there is legislating contained in this amendment. But in large part, and I think the gentleman would agree, if in fact the IG is even close to the mark, saving $1.3 billion in the legislation that the…

No. The point being that it is not 102 years old and around since the Spanish-American War. It was repealed after that war in 1902. So the gentleman is inaccurate on that point.

As I looked over the history of this tax, I thought I read that after the Spanish-American War this tax was repealed, and then at the start of World War I it was put back on; repealed after World War I; then it was put back on for World…

The question I was going to ask of my colleague from the Republican side of the aisle was in here is a provision to reinstate the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund excise tax. Evidently he is for oil spills. We want to clean them up. There is…

I have to question the timing of this first ever pro-Catholic resolution. And I think it is totally appropriate to bring it to the debate, the fact that if the people who are bringing this resolution forward are so pro-Catholic, let us see…

Let me reclaim my time and ask the gentleman, are all those filings the initial filing upon hiring the employee, or is that the filings an employer would go through after an employee has been with him or her for a period of years?

So Ed, on behalf of all of your friends here in the House of Representatives, let me thank you for your 21 years of dedicated service. May you enjoy your retirement in good health and with God's blessing, and know that when I have the…

This is a correction bill. Back in 1987, we passed the legislation on nurse aide training. I think in this one area we went too far. This bill provides States with the flexibility to continue needed nursing aide training, even though the…

Let me further the point that was made by the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner]. If, in fact, the majority party continues along the line like it is doing with the welfare reform bill, and, that is, moderating it to some…

Let me try to bring the debate back to the issue here. The issue before us is not to rehash or redo the State legislative enactment; that is the law of the land in the State of Wisconsin. What we are trying to do here, what we are talking…

No. In fact there have been, I believe, nine submitted for approval and all nine have been expedited. So the question before us is not whether or not these waivers are going to be granted or whether or not they are going to be expedited…

My response was that for the Democrats to get an opportunity to offer a substitute amendment comes so infrequently and is so rare that we thought if we did a lot of animation, we would have a rule that would provide for a substitute…

Does the gentlewoman mean to tell me that she is going to be asked to vote on a major, major piece of legislation today and she has never read what she is voting on?

Would the majority leader give the Members of the body some feel as to what these waivers include? I am told that there are 75 separate waivers. Could the majority leader possible share with the Members what some of them might be?

I direct the attention of the Members to page 90 of the authorization bill before us where we do authorize funds for various programs in the fossil fuel energy program. If the Members look down to the coal technology, up pops off the page…

I agree with all the gentleman says. However his mark coming before the committee was a $59 million appropriations. If in fact he wanted more dollars in that line, why did not the committee from the git-go put in the $64 million or $84…