U.S. State Attorneys General

Mr. Speaker, H. Con. Res. 77 is a resolution that I authored in conjunction with the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) for the express purpose of expressing our country and our government's firm support for family reunification…

That is right. I hope history doesn't repeat itself. The only way we can prevent that is to become less dependent on foreign oil.

Due to dramatic increases in land border traffic and trade with Canada coupled with only token increase in staffing in recent years, our ports of entry are woefully understaffed.

The Subcommittee is increasingly aware of the problems that drugs pose in the workplace. Helping businesses to address such a problem will greatly benefit our communities and children. I look forward to working with my colleague to address…

There is not a dime in this bill that will go for an abortion. But we have heard from the other side that money is fungible and so that the money that otherwise might be freed up could be seen for abortion. The United States allocates more…

Mr. Chairman, the key point I want to stress in closing is that this does not create a union of doctors. The words ``collective bargaining'' only occur in the statute with reference to an antitrust exemption already in law for unions. We…

I rise for two purposes. Although colleagues have referred to this as the Campbell bill, this is the Campbell-Conyers bill. There is no one who has fought as hard as the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) for this bill, and that…

Mr. Chairman, it is of that magnitude. We know 26 times already this process has been used to put people in jail in this country. INS claims that there are only 8 left. We do not know that for sure. I think that the magnitude was reached…

The cost of incarceration is all I am after in this particular bill, in this particular effort, because it is the incarceration of people on the basis of evidence that they cannot see that strikes me as the least fair of all.

We have had hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary and in the subcommittee as well; and I am grateful to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) for allowing that. So we have done all we can…

Let us consider, as the gentleman points out, if in every other case the Justice Department seems able to handle the concerns of the United States without recourse to secret evidence, then the argument surely is difficult to say that it…

The argument of the gentleman could just as well be made about a citizen. The gentleman could be here saying, those terrorists who blew up the Oklahoma Federal Courthouse, to protect ourselves from them, we needed to get secret evidence…

I would simply thank the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford) for his adherence to the Constitution and to the principle that, yes, we CAN achieve maximum security in our country if we sell our freedom, but we never should.

The attorney attempts in those cases where they have some opportunity to prove a negative, to say that, my client has been an upstanding member of the community for so many years. And in those cases where we have been able to find out the…

It is quite clearly unconstitutional to apply this practice to any citizen in the United States.

No. The witness gives the evidence solely to the Immigration and Naturalization Service judge. The attorney on the other side does not know their identity nor have the ability to cross-examine.

Neither the family nor the individual is told the specific reasons for the person being held pending deportation. They do not have access to the evidence which is alleged to be the basis for the deportation. And they do not know how long…

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to be confronted with the witnesses against him.

The individual is not told what he has done wrong or what he is charged with. He is simply told that he is subject to a deportation proceeding.

My amendment cuts that money out. This amendment cannot legislate. It does not touch the law, because we cannot legislate on an appropriation bill. What it does, though, is to give each of us a chance to go on record in a symbolic way…

That is exactly right. And I do have ultimate trust that market solutions are better than Government-imposed solutions. And so, if we pass H.R. 1304 tomorrow and the other body passes it and the President signs it into law, we will have…

The whole purpose behind H.R. 1304 is to allow medical professionals to practice their profession so that they can help their patients and that what has happened is that decision has in large part been taken away from them and that is what…

I appreciate the point of the gentleman. As I said at the start, I admire his compassion, his knowledge, his medical as well as congressional experience. I took a slightly different view, as the gentleman knows on the Patients' Bill of…

Right. And we cannot have an antitrust exemption on one side and individuals unable even to call each other on the other. And market power with fewer and fewer HMOs on one side, and a doctor who cannot even express her or his revulsion…