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Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of H.R. 5390 to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13301 Smith Road in Cleveland, Ohio, as the David John Donafee Post…
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 422 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced…
Mr. Speaker, we are here on a bill that allegedly provides supplemental funding for our troops, yet within the bowels of this House amendment are provisions that have implications for our border security, provisions in violation of our…
There is no doubt in my mind that you are a liberal person.
Mr. President, 30 years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its landmark decision in Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297, upholding the constitutionality of the Hyde amendment, which prohibits Federal funding of abortions…
As America's founders designed it, the Senate's role of advice and consent is a check on the President's power to appoint.
Today is a sad day with the passing of our great colleague Senator Robert Byrd this morning.
It is OK to be liberal. It is OK to be conservative.
The identity of the speaker is not decisive in determining whether speech is protected.
I intend to be. And you know that after 34 years.
what the Congress had found was that these corporations and unions had a kind of access to Congressmen, had a kind of influence over Congressmen that changed outcomes, that was a corrupting influence on Congress.
tell that to Blanch Lincoln how incumbents are protected.
President Obama called the Citizens United decision, 'a victory for powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.'
we have to have a little back and forth every once in a while or this place would be boring as hell.
It is unfortunately true that almost any meaningful campaign finance reform proposal raises constitutional issues.
Now, do you believe the Constitution gives the Federal Government this much power?
that's why the Citizens United case, I think, is a correct decision.
Do you really believe that the Constitution allows the Federal Government this much power to pick and choose who may say what, how and when about the government?