Press Releases

"The Bush Administration is overdue in appointing someone to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs who will ensure that all veterans receive the quality, timely health care they deserve -- particularly our brave men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan."

"We're gathered here this afternoon on a subject of very great concern to America's families. As we approach the holiday season, with Halloween tomorrow, and Thanksgiving around the corner, and shopping for Christmas toys going on probably as we speak, we want to make sure that we are doing the best possible job to protect America's children."

"Unlike the Republican-controlled Congress, which allowed the moratorium on taxes on Internet access to expire for more than a year, the Democratic Congress voted today to extend the moratorium on time, ahead of the expiration date of November 1. The seven-year extension represents the longest extension for this moratorium."

"You would think that the President would take pride in the New Direction Congress' bipartisan votes to make America safer by implementing the 9/11 Commission recommendations, give hard-working Americans a raise by increasing the minimum wage, make college more affordable for many more Americans, pass an Innovation Agenda to keep America number one, and uphold a high ethical standard by passing a sweeping lobbying and ethics reform bill."

"As the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security, Congressman McNulty has been a leader in the efforts to ensure America's seniors earn the guaranteed benefit they were promised."

"The President fails to grasp a basic tenet of fiscal responsibility--you must pay for what you spend. The President would rather spend another $200 billion in Iraq and leave our children to pick up the tab than make fiscally sound investments in veterans' health care, cancer research and health care for 10 million children."

"Today we took another step forward in providing health insurance for 10 million children. It's an interesting vote. Although we had a number of absences on both sides, we had a situation where on the motion to recommit, the Republicans who all day railed against the increase in taxes in the package, in their motion to recommit, had the same 61-cent tax on cigarettes."

"The thoughts and prayers of our entire nation today are with California: with the firefighters risking life and limb to protect others, and with the many who have lost so much."