Editorial
'Not fully funding No Child Left Behind- UNINTELLIGENT
'Not providing a real benefit to Seniors for prescription drug purchases - SHAMEFUL
'Not putting forth a real solution to significantly decrease the $44 million uninsured- BAD MEDICINE
'Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq: A LIE
'No-bid contracts for the Vice President's former company Haliburton - SCANDALOUS
'Revealing the name of a covert CIA operative - TRAITOROUS
Westchester, New York
Good Evening,
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to be here.
I want thank Adelphi University and my good friend Steve Malito for making this event possible.
Of course with the war against Iraq underway, I'm sure all of our thoughts are with our soldiers and the sacrifices they and their families are making. I think it would be fitting if we each ask god to bless all those killed, injured and captured as POWs in a prayer for peace.
Westchester, New York
Good Evening,
Thank you. I'm happy to join with my colleague, Representative Joe Crowley, and the residents of Co-op City in celebrating Black History Month 2004. It's ironic that this program should take place on February 23rd, W.E.B. DuBois' 136th birthday.
Over 100 years ago Dr. DuBois wrote in The Souls of the Black Folk: "the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line." Let us hope that 100 years from now it will not be written that the problem of the 21st century was also the problem of the color line.
Although voters will not cast ballots for the next President and Congress for some time, it is already clear that health care coverage will be the number one domestic issue. The American people are demanding an end to the national scandal in which tens of millions of their fellow citizens go without health insurance, and tens of millions are under-insured.
I would like to thank Timothy Mitchell, President of the Jamaica Business Resource Center, and Leslie Schweitzer, Senior Trade Advisor at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, not only for the warm words of welcome, but also for the collaborative spirit with which they went about helping putting this event together.
Mr. Chairman, I rise today to speak about my recent trip to Iraq and to answer some of the questions millions of Americans have been asking every day since the President first announced that he would seek another $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Speaker, this last day of February marks the end of Black History Month, the annual celebration commemorating the contributions of African Americans to this great nation.
I thought it fitting, as its Representative, to pay tribute to some of the many great African Americans that hail from the Sixth Congressional District of New York.
Most people are surprised to learn that since the Harlem Renaissance, Queens has been known as the true "Home of Jazz"- the residence of choice for hundreds of our greatest African American jazz artists.
Thank you Mr. Speaker.
I rise in opposition to H. J. Resolution 114.
Fellow members and the American people, today we have an opportunity to debate an issue that is of great importance. An issue that involves both the known and unknown consequences that only a war can produce, for America, the Middle East, and indeed the entire world.
It comes at a time when many Americans, particularly many New Yorkers from the 6th District, which I am proud and honored to represent, are still in pain from the trauma of the attack on 9/11.