 I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies. |
| Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits. |
| The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better. |
| The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. |
| While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing. |
| No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all. |
| Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world. |
| If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years. |
| Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace. |
| For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. |
