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  • Floor Remarks on Medicare Conference Report
    Nov 21, 2003  - Mr. Speaker, with regret, I rise in opposition to the Medicare conference report now before us. Rather than giving seniors the simple, comprehensive and affordable prescription drug benefit they deserve, this bill recklessly undermines the Medicare program, threatens many seniors' existing drug cove...
  • Van Hollen Speaks Out in Support of Increased Funding for NIH
    Nov 6, 2003  - Mr. Speaker, I rise to support the motion of my colleague from Texas and thank him for his leadership on this issue. If there is anything that we as a Nation ought to be able to agree on, it is our common resolve to fight and overcome the scourge of disease and disability. This is not a Democratic i...
  • Van Hollen Speaks Out on Special Education Funding
    Nov 5, 2003  - Mr. Speaker, I rise to support the DeLauro amendment. Many decades ago, our country did a great and noble thing. We made a commitment as American people that every child in this country, regardless of his or her disability, would get a good education . At that time, the Federal Government promised t...
  • Paying the Postwar Tab with Plastic
    Oct 27, 2003  - The editorial “Responsibility Gap” [Oct. 16], failed to address the huge responsibility gap created by President Bush’s failure to pay for our efforts in Iraq in an honest and upfront manner. I agree that whatever position one may have had on the question of going to war in Iraq, we now have a respo...
  • Floor Statement on Iraq Supplemental
    Oct 17, 2003  - Mr. Chairman, last spring many of us warned that unilateral military action against Iraq would open a Pandora's Box; that the President had not prepared the American people for the sacrifices that would be entailed by such an action; and that to act without the support of the international community...
  • Memorial to Victims of 9/11 Tragedies
    Sep 25, 2003  - Mr. Speaker, just a short time ago, the sunlight shone from the heavens and brightened and warmed the names of the eleven beloved members of our county who perished in the awful attacks two years ago. That moment reflected how we will remember them: as eleven individuals, men and women who warmed th...
  • Offering of A-76 Contracting Out Amendment
    Sep 9, 2003  - Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 8 minutes. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is designed to ensure that we have an even playing field when the Federal Government decides to hold a competition to contract out Federal jobs and services to private contractors. It has been the long-standing policy of our govern...
  • Van Hollen letter to Post explains his position opposing an FCC regulation allowing a few media interests to control TV markets
    Aug 6, 2003  - Editor The Washington Post 1150 15th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20071 To the Editor: Your weekly “For the Record” of July 31, 2003 mischaracterized a vote I cast on H.R. 2799, a bill appropriating federal funds for the Departments of Commerce, Justice and State (“CJS”). Under the heading “TV Networ...
  • Remarks on the School Readiness Act of 2003: Religious Discrimination Provision
    Jul 24, 2003  - Mr. Chairman, I thank my colleague for yielding me time. Mr. Chairman, let me start by talking about what this amendment is not about. It is not about whether faith-based organizations can provide valuable services. They can and they do. In fact, many are currently running Head Start programs. The i...
  • Van Hollen opposes funding cuts in NIST and NOAA
    Jul 23, 2003  - Mr. Chairman, it is with great reluctance that I oppose this bill. However, I cannot support a bill that makes such deep cuts in investments important to our nation. Mr. Chairman, among the many egregious cuts in this bill, this Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations bill for 2004 decreases funding f...

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