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  • House Floor·July 20, 2005·p. H6110

    Criticizing Drug Liability Provision

    Mr. Speaker, the first Vioxx lawsuit to reach trial is currently being played out in Texas. The case focuses on the needless death of Robert Ernst, a produce manager at Wal-Mart who also ran marathons and worked as a personal trainer. He…

  • House Floor·July 20, 2005·p. H6117-H6173

    Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2006 And 2007

    Mr. Chairman, I join my colleague from Michigan and echo a couple of points that he made in opposition to the Rogers amendment. This is nothing but a backdoor attempt to permit oil drilling in the Great Lakes. We have all cited the…

  • House Floor·July 20, 2005·p. H6179

    Order Of Business

    Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take my time out of order.

  • House Floor·July 20, 2005·p. H6179-H6180

    Social Security

    Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues have recently unveiled a new plan to carve out private accounts from the surplus of the Social Security trust fund. This is the same trust fund that President Bush said was nonexistent just a few…

  • House Floor·July 19, 2005·p. H5969

    Greenspan To Testify On State Of Economy

    Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will testify before the Committee on Financial Services on the state of the economy. During his testimony, Chairman Greenspan will undoubtedly argue that ours is a healthy…

  • House Floor·July 19, 2005·p. H6078

    Exchange Of Special Order Time

    Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take the time of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton).

  • House Floor·July 19, 2005·p. H6078-H6079

    Leaks From The White House

    Mr. Speaker, a lot has been made lately about leaks coming from the White House, and the outing of CIA Agent Valerie Wilson was admittedly an egregious act. But I, for one, would like more leaks, not less from this White House. And let me…

  • House Floor·July 14, 2005·p. H5810-H5880

    Water Resources Development Act Of 2005

    Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Water Resources Development Act. As Congressman Mo Udall used to say, Everything that has been said has been said. It just has not been said by everybody that needs to say it. There are a lot of good…

  • House Floor·July 13, 2005·p. H5744

    Urging Candor On Iraq

    Mr. Speaker, you cannot solve a problem if you do not acknowledge that you have a problem. In that light, I appreciate and applaud the comments of outgoing Under Secretary of Defense Doug Feith made to the Washington Post concerning the…

  • House Floor·July 12, 2005·p. H5718

    Urging Lobbying Reform

    Mr. Speaker, today in the Washington Post, we found out that a key adviser to President Bush on the Intelligence Advisory Committee has been instrumental in helping China and the Chinese oil company put together their bid to purchase…

  • House Floor·June 30, 2005·p. H5483-H5514

    Transportation, Treasury, Housing And Urban Development, The Judiciary, The District Of Columbia, And Independent Agencies Appropriations Act,

    Mr. Chairman, in the Committee on Ways and Means we are debating CAFTA, and market analysts estimate the U.S. economy is losing up to $1.24 billion annually in agricultural exports alone because of the Cuban embargo. According to the USTR,…

  • House Floor·June 29, 2005·p. H5366

    Corporate Welfare Demonstrates Need For Lobbying Reform

    Mr. Speaker, on Monday, oil topped at $60 a barrel, and yet the House energy bill contains more than $8 billion in taxpayer funded giveaways to oil companies. American taxpayers are being asked to subsidize big oil to do one thing: execute…

  • House Floor·June 28, 2005·p. H5258

    Save Social Security First

    Mr. Speaker, our Republican colleagues have unveiled a new proposal to privatize the Social Security surplus. Maybe I am a little confused, but was President Bush not just in West Virginia saying the Social Security trust fund and its…

  • House Floor·June 27, 2005·p. H5186-H5192

    Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act

    Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 458, the Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act. H.R. 458 is identical to legislation passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 396 to 2 in the 108th Congress.…

  • House Floor·June 27, 2005·p. H5227-H5232

    Honoring Those Who Made The Ultimate Sacrifice

    Mr. Speaker, last week my colleagues and I began a memorial tribute to read the names of over 1,900 men and women who gave their lives in service to our Nation in Afghanistan and Iraq. We read about 860 of those names. We recited the name…