Mr. President, the purpose of this legislation should not be to decide who are the winners and who are the losers. We are not here out of some arrogant sense of self-righteousness to reward one region of the country while we punish another. The problems that this bill seeks to address are national problems that require national solutions.
Speaking on the regional burdens of clean air legislation.
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The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.
Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?
Our service men and women, now more than ever, are depending on your leadership to put the military medical system on a new track.
I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.
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