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Our Committee on Transportation just ended its subcommittee meeting at 9:20 this evening where we were hearing some testimony about the possible merger between Delta and Northwest. And it was a very educational seminar, to say the least…
But that requires judgment. It requires good judgment at every level of our government, not just a mayor or a county board member, but here in Congress and in the White House. And this is why this next election, I'm looking forward to…
What we did the other day in terms of trying not to put more petrol into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is to increase the supply. And the President said what we should be doing is increasing supply by drilling more. But there's a fallacy…
Well, I would close by thanking you for the opportunity. It's been a long day, another 15-hour day for both of us. And I want to thank the American people for tuning in tonight. And you can guarantee one thing, that we're working hard for…
It wouldn't be so bad if everybody else was doing that good. The reason it's bad is because we didn't get lifted up at the same time.
Let me make a comment about that if I may, and many people would like to say, well, why can't government run itself like a business. And in one sense, we can because in business there are three questions you have to ask yourself: Will it…
during the past year, I had the high honor of working with Republicans and Democrats alike in the House Agriculture Committee to bring forward a new reform-minded bill, one that would be great for the health of the American people and…
last week the Labor Department reported that for the fourth month in a row our jobs are going south. We are losing more jobs, even as the middle class is struggling just to keep their heads above water. We're in this mess because the Bush…
Several days ago, Marine Lance Corporal Dean Opicka was killed in action while serving our Nation in Iraq. Dean was 29 years of age and is the third Luxemburg-Casco High School alumnus killed in Iraq. David and Donna Opicka of Casco…
today is Tax Day and everyone in America is asking the question: Whose side are you on? Well, I am on the side of Wisconsin taxpayers, and my record proves it. I have kept my word. In September of 2006, I stated we should do two things…
Thank you to Madam Johnson and subcommittee Chair Frank Pallone for putting together a tremendous bill. Madam Chairman, as a Member who has the honor of representing one of the largest States in the country that has shoreline beyond…
What kind of nation would we be if we wouldn't stand up to speak out in favor of liberty everywhere in the world? It was on January 6, 1941, right here in this chamber that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enunciated and outlined for us…
all across America and Wisconsin, people are demanding lower gas prices and affordable health care, not more debt. In recent weeks, our Nation has experienced a dramatic decline in home values. And when our home values decline and…
I rise today to express in the strongest terms possible my opposition to President Bush's proposed budget for 2009, a budget that simply does not reflect our traditional American values. The Republican budget would sink us deeper into debt…
Thank you for yielding. You bring up an interesting point about paying taxes. Do you really believe that people who are going down can pay more? It doesn't make any sense at all. Let's take a look at some of the numbers. Twenty-five…
We need to have not just a budget policy, but a tax policy that rewards work more so than wealth. Because what you see with this graph is that the people that are being rewarded are the wealthy who are not necessarily working as hard as…
Can you name one thing that President Bush has done to help us become an energy independent Nation? Just one thing. I can't think of a thing that he has done. There is so much that we could be doing to become energy independent. But let's…
Millions of people are thinking to themselves right now, and have been, gee, I haven't done anything wrong. What have I got to be worried about? What have they got to be worried about?
If I may ask a question, because I really appreciate your legal acumen, it is good to have roommates that are attorneys. So what you are explaining to us is that I have a right to my own phone records. That the records the phone company…
Just to follow up, if I understand what you are saying, what we are really talking about is everybody's personal individual liberty and their rights as guaranteed under the Constitution, and that giving blanket immunity without asking any…
But, sir, there have been telephone calls going out. There have been radio conversations. There have been television commercials in districts around America trying to indicate that, in fact, we have gone dark, that we've suddenly stopped…
Well, then the question has to be asked, what's really going on here? What is it that our Republican colleagues disagree with us about with regard to protecting not only America, using FISA, but also protecting our constitutional rights…
Well, I thank you for yielding. There were two very valuable lessons that I learned during my campaign and election to Congress. The first lesson was that people will believe a lie if it's represented to them with great skill on television…
ladies and gentlemen, the American public needs to know about misrepresentation. This morning we have heard a misrepresentation of reality about the FISA bill. We passed a FISA bill that guarantees that we protect not only our Nation but…
If security, if international security depends upon finding anybody, it's not Waldo. We took our eye off the ball. Where is Osama bin Laden, and what are we doing about him and his violent extremists and the people that follow his way of…
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