Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

It should concern every American taxpayer. Their dirty little secret is they provide so-called low prices by shifting heath-care costs to the taxpayers.