Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service, |
Mr. President, we will make your spending request for school construction, we will increase funding for school construction $1.3 billion ... but we want that money to go directly to the school districts that will use it, |
Mr. Tenet had a monumental task to rebuild human intelligence-gathering capabilities devastated by eight years of liberal Clinton administration policies, |
noble mission to free the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant. |
not happen again in this country. |
Number one, you have to clean up and neutralize the situation in New Orleans so that they can get in and do the work there. And of course also in Alabama and Mississippi, |
Oil and gas companies are enjoying record profits. That is fine. This is America, |
On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore. |
Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war. |
Our hearts and prayers go out to him, |
Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it. |
Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman, |
Our vote count is coming along quite well, |
out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation. |
People judge issues by saying, `Can this happen to me?' ... and they can see in hurricanes Katrina and Rita how this could be them. |