2004 Speeches

October 2004

• Voting Is Going To be the In Thing In 2004 - October 8, 2004 Video
• Republicans Have Their Hands in the Cookie Jar - October 7, 2004 Video
• Republican Rhetoric Does Not Match Reality - October 6, 2004 Video
• Lost Public Trust - October 5, 2004
• When it Comes to the Question of a Draft, the kids get it
   - October 5, 2004 Video
• It's Time to Declare a Code Red on the Nation's Debt Crisis
   - October 4, 2004 Video
• A Tribute to Carl Ostrom - October 4, 2004

September 2004

• McDermott Votes Against Proposed Amendment Denying Same Sex Marriage
   - September 30, 2004
• Cheney was Right on Iraq... The First Time - September 30, 2004 Video
• America's Priorities in Suspended Animation - September 29, 2004
• Rubber-stamping Bush Pro-outsourcing Policy - September 29, 2004 Video
• The Three R's of Republican Rhetoric - September 29, 2004 Video
• Fiscal Danger - September 23, 2004 Video
• The Truth About the "Working Families Tax Relief Act" - September 23, 2004
• Be Afraid - September 23, 2004
• Republicans Give With one hand, Then Take Away With the Other
   - September 22, 2004 Video
• It's Time for New Partnership - September 22, 2004 Video
• Silencing the Critics, Not the Gunfire - September 21, 2004
• Three Trillion is a Big Number - September 21, 2004
• Duwamish Tribe Deserves Recognition - September 21, 2004
• Washington Results Bode Well for Democrats - September 15, 2004
• Health Care Crisis is Getting Worse - September 14, 2004 Video
• America Needs a Leadership Transplant - September 14, 2004 Video
• Bipartisan Support for Assault Weapons Ban Ignored - September 13, 2004
• Mr. Rumsfeld's Split Personality - September 13, 2004
• The Economy is in a Mess - September 13, 2004
• Bush Economic Policies are Bad For Average Americans - September 9, 2004
• Demanding the Truth - September 8, 2004
• Honoring the Soldiers From Washington Who Have Died in Iraq
- September 7, 2004 Video

July 2004

• Distractions Keep America from Addressing 9/11 Commission Report
- July 22, 2004
• McDermott Addresses the House "Marriage Protection Act" - July 22, 2004
• Bill Helps Generate Press Releases, Not "Tax Simplification" - July 21, 2004
• Republicans Have Made Our Tax Code More Complex - July 21, 2004
• Declaring Genocide in Darfur, Sudan - July 21, 2004
• Bush Administration Continues Leak and Smear Campaign - July 21, 2004
• America Needs to Be Strong, Not Afraid - July 21, 2004 Video
• Administration Will Have to Account to the American People - July 20, 2004
• Recognizing the 35th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing - July 20, 2004
• What is the health of the U.S. economy? - July 20, 2004 Video
• Administration Lacks a Coherent Terrorism Policy
   - July 19, 2004 Video
• The Right Prescription - July 19, 2004
• A Great National Debate and Open Dialogue Will Win the War on Terrorism
   - July 19, 2004 Video
• A Leader's Responsibility - July 15, 2004
• McDermott Urges Congress to Increase Support for Global Fund to Fight AIDS
   - July 15, 2004
• Support for the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement - July 14, 2004
• Israel Has a Right to Exist, but There is No Such Thing as a One-sided Story
   - July 14, 2004
• Economic Recovery? Americans Know better - July 14, 2004
• Presidential Land Grab - July 13, 2004
• A Critique of Vice President Cheney - July 13, 2004
• Tell America the Truth - July 13, 2004
• Support for the Flake Amendment to the 2005 Agricultural Appropriations Act
   - July 13, 2004
• Ad Growth Industry - July 13, 2004
• Elections, Not Fear, Make America - July 12, 2004
• Congress Needs Credible Data - July 12, 2004
• Knowledge is Power in American Politics - July 9, 2004
• King George Rules Shut Down Dissent - July 9, 2004
• They Stole the Vote - July 8, 2004
• War Without End - July 8, 2004
• House Should Pass the Sanders "Freedom to Read Protection Amendment"
   - July 8, 2004
• Values - July 8, 2004
• New Democratic Administration Will Unite America - July 7, 2004
• In the Eye of the Beholder - July 7, 2004
• Critiquing the Administration - July 6, 2004

June 2004

• Rule of Law May Finally Rule in Iraq - June 22, 2004
• Undeclared Draft - June 18, 2004
• The Big Lie - June 18, 2004
• The "Christmas Tree" Bill - June 17, 2004
• The Oil War At Home - June 17, 2004
• Bush's Environmental Record - June 16, 2004
• Abuse of Power by Secretary Rumsfeld - June 15, 2004
• We Need a President Not Tied to the Oil Industry - June 15, 2004
• House Passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2004
   - June 14, 2004
• AARP Owes seniors an Explanation - June 3, 2004
• Fallen Heros - June 2, 2004
• Negative Campaign Ads - June 2, 2004
• Reasons Why Administration Has To Go - June 20, 2004

May 2004

• A Draft By Any Other Name - May 20, 2004
• Who Investigates the Investigators? - May 19, 2004
• Health Care Crisis Demands Real Leadership - May 19, 2004
• Trust Us, Rumsfeld Must Go - May 17, 2004
• Recognizing Dr. Lee L. Huntsman - May 12, 2004
• Congress Needs to Stop Digging - May 13, 2004
• Shameful Images From Iraq - May 13, 2004
• Affirming Democracy - May 12, 2004
• Profligate Spending Will Come Home To Roost - May 12, 2004
• Disposition of Unused Health Benefits - May 12, 2004
• Send the President Back To Texas - May 12, 2004
• Rhetoric of the War Crusade - May 11, 2004
• Crimes in Iraq May Go Unpunished - May 11, 2004
• Clean House - May 11, 2004
• Congress Needs to Go Beyond Damage Control - Deploring Pictures of
Abuse in Iraq - May 6, 2004
• Rumsfeld Must Go - May 6, 2004
• Expressing Concern About Iran's Development of Means to Produce
Nuclear Weapons - May 6, 2004
• Cyberstalking - May 5, 2004
• Alternative Minimum Tax Band-Aid - May 5, 2004
• Administration Has Failed Education - May 5, 2004
• Iraq War Keeps Getting Worse - May 4, 2004

April 2004

• Congressman Jim McDermott Remarks Upon Accepting The Ralph
Bunche Award - April 30, 2004
• Congress Must Pass Bill That Includes Money For the Alaskan Way Viaduct
   - April 28, 2004
• The War on the Truth - April 27, 2004
• Missing Without Action - April 27, 2004
• Bush's War on the Environment - April 22, 2004
• Credentials Needed For Those Attacking John Kerry - April 22, 2004
• Presidential Arrogance Continues Mistakes in Iraq - April 21, 2004
• We Must Not Abandon The Kurds - April 21, 2004
• Play the Tapes - Reaction to Bob Woodward inter on 60 Minutes
   - April 21, 2004
• Save the Hubble Space Telescope - April 20, 2004
• Time to Get the truth about the President's war in Iraq - April 20, 2004
• The Republican "Pray-As-You-Go" Budget Policy - April 2, 2004

March 2004

• The Administration Giveth and the Republican Congress Taketh Away
- March 30, 2004
• Congress Needs to Take a Real Step Toward Economic Recovery and Extended Unemployment Benefits - March 30, 2004
• EU Decision Against Microsoft Leaves Unresolved Questions - March 25, 2004
• A Tribute to Mr. Harry Thomas - March 24, 2004
• Legacy of The "Exxon Valdez" - March 24, 2004
• The 2005 Budget Shell Game - March 24, 2004
• "Exxon Valdez" Is Not the Only Ship Aground - March 23, 2004
• Support the Soldiers, Not the Politics - March 17, 2004
• America's Preemptive War - March 17, 2004
• Communicating the Reality of the Republican Medicare Prescription Drug Bill
   - March 17, 2004
• Biblical Principles Behind the Budget - March 16, 2004
• Bush's New Math - March 10, 2004
• The Bush Administration is Outsourcing Its Responsibilities on Jobs and
the Economy - March 9, 2004
• An Urgent Call for Universal Health Care in America - March 4, 2004
• In Honor of Peace Corps Week - March 3, 2004
• Save The Hubble Telescope - March 3, 2004
• Congress Must Acknowledge the Medical Issues Facing Our Soldiers
   - March 2, 2004

February 2004

• Codifying "Biblical Principals" of Marriage - February 25, 2004
• Regarding Justice Scalia's Refusal to Recuse Himself From Hearing Case Concerning the Vice President - February 25, 2004
• Pentagon Opens Criminal Fraud Investigation Into Halliburton
- February 25, 2004
• Bush Spin-Doctors Alter Health Disparities Report - February 11, 2004
• McDermott again challenges the President to support legislation that extend unemployment benefits - February 04, 2004

January 2004

• The Condition of the People's House: Where is the Outrage? - January 28, 2004
• The President and the Republican Leadership Needs to Pass an Extension of Unemployment Benefits Now - January 20, 2004
• The State of Our Union - January 20, 2004
• Congressman McDermott accepts a Community Service Award
   - January 15, 2004

Also, see McDermott floor speeches from 
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