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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…
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…
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…
It's not such a difficult question to ask, Whose side are you on? Are you on the side of Cassidy and her mother, Wendy? I am. I know my colleagues are. Whose side are we on? We will answer that question tomorrow.
I don't want anyone in this Chamber or anyone in America to misunderstand the situation. We present this bill. It's already a compromise. We passed a bill that cared not just for children but for our senior citizens on Medicare. Medicare…
What kind of Nation are we if we don't care for our children? I have here a placard that gives us the SCHIP facts. People may have heard a number of things in the last several days about SCHIP, but these are the facts. SCHIP is a State-run…
That brings up a good point that Linda DePere writes, ``I do not want the government involved in health care. The government mismanages money and thinks funds are endless.'' We agree with Linda, but we also believe in good government. And…
My constituents in Northeast Wisconsin and countless others across this Nation are hurting because of the current mortgage crisis. The fact is many homeowners are increasingly unable to make monthly payments or sell their homes in the…
You can look forward to good judgment from the 110th Congress on both sides of the aisle. We have got a great leader, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has a steel spine, and she will keep us on this path of fiscal responsibility and being…
This year I requested that this language not be included in the water resources bill because of my concern that it might impair the navigability of the Fox River and the potential for future commerce. It is my understanding that a 9-foot…
These are not just words or phrases. The boards are accountability, responsibility. This is something that you know from living your life as you have that we must do not just here in Congress but in our everyday lives as citizens. I…
Would my colleague agree with me that we will never cut and run from our veterans?
It does not have to be that way. With the money we have already spent in Iraq, we could immunize every human on Earth with every vaccine that we know about for the next 95 years. We could have sent 14 million children, our children, to a…
So what kind of Nation are we, and in which direction shall we move? Are we a Nation that values and treasures those who have served in harm's way in our military? I think we are. Are we a Nation that values the health and education of our…
I would say it this way: Medicare part D has already been privatized because no longer is the benefit money going to go to a constituent, to a Medicare enrollee. It goes to the insurance company. In fact, all of us taxpayers paid money to…
I believe our President must be kind to seniors and kind to all Americans, and he would be kind in signing the opportunity to negotiate for a lower price for medications. I believe it is discriminatory, as I said. I look at the world and…
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