Mr. Speaker, Cardinal O'Connor's prayers, his sacrifices, and his personal chastity are a model of how to achieve personal fulfillment and happiness for all of us. As the gentleman from New York has said, the Pope has praised Cardinal…

Now, we have heard that OPIC helps American workers, and we have heard that it hurts American workers. I want to focus on that one claim. Let us look at one of these transactions. In 1997, OPIC financed the building for Levi Strauss of a…

we have five agencies that regulate the banks, including the OTS, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the SEC. They all got together said we have overlapping jurisdiction. That is causing concerns. Some…

Thank goodness that today we have a modern financial bill that is before us to vote that will save the American people $15 billion a year, that will increase privacy protections. You can tell your bank, ``No, I would rather not have that…

I like to quote from the President of the Organization of Police Chiefs of the United States. He says this amendment will have a significant detrimental impact on the ability of law enforcement agencies nationwide to effectively…

Mr. DeMINT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in favor of the Child Custody Protection Act. This bill would make it unlawful to transport a minor across State lines to circumvent a State law requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion…

America has always been up to the challenge, whether it was building the transcontinental railroad to unite our West Coast with the rest of the Nation after the civil war; putting a man on the moon; or soldiers coming back from a war…

Mr. Speaker, we are all struggling to do the right thing, and we are confronted with a case where we have a 14- or a 15-year-old girl. She is pregnant, unwanted pregnancy, as she would say, as we would say, and she is considering an…

war is hell, but at times it is our most dreaded necessity. At times it is unavoidable. At times it is a matter of self-defense. None of this is the case in Kosovo. This war was not, nor is it now unavoidable. It is neither a dreaded…

I simply say that is it not ironic that Mrs. Parks, by remaining seated, stood up for all of us and for our right to fair treatment and to equality. For that, we are a better country and a better people. This is a just and overdue honor.

I include for the record an op-ed piece which I published in the Birmingham News and the Tuscaloosa paper. Mr. Speaker, in this article the first thing I said is that this crisis is not a crisis brought on by our steelworkers or our steel…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1756 is the Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Strategy Act of 1998. It was introduced by the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez), the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Leach) and myself, and it directs the Secretary of…

Mr. Chairman, first of all, and this has been said several times but let us say it one more time, this Exchange Stabilization Fund was created by this Congress, by an appropriation by this Congress in 1934. And our Nation, our Treasury…

What this resolution says, and I hope it was a message that we carried to Mexico, is that this fight against narco-traffickers is a dangerous one, and we simply do not need to let our law enforcement agencies be made pawns in a diplomatic…

One does not have to be a rocket scientist, one does not have to be an economics professor to know that many families today are struggling to pay their child's college education. Both sides of the aisle would agree with that. In fact…

When we consider an issue like child pornography, we need to understand that issue. A recent poll showed that most people in the United States know little about child pornography and understand little about it. They are surprised when they…

In addressing this issue, I think we ought to first ask ourselves who is the IMF. Well, the IMF functions like a private club. Its minutes are secret. They are never released to the public. Its votes are not a matter of public record. The…

Congress has arrived at the time when we and the Nation must look beyond the polls, the media, and beyond the political rhetoric and consider the grave matter of voting on the impeachment of the Nation's President

there have been several issues that have come up on the floor that I think need clarification. One thing that has been said on this House floor is why is there a need for labor reform? Why can Amtrak labor and management not just sit down…

That being the case, would the gentleman join me in a request to the Department of Treasury that it immediately bring its contracting practices at the CDFI fund into conformance with the intent of the VA-HUD conference report language…

the Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services undertook an investigation of the CDFI fund in the past year. As a result of that investigation, the two top officials of that fund…

sometimes we are caught unawares without any warning. Last month there was a commuter strike in San Francisco where over 270,000 commuters found themselves without a way to work and a way home, when the 60-day cooling-off period expired on…

I have shared with the gentleman my concern, and I ask the gentleman and the committee to support me in separate legislation to achieve the goal of limiting abusive contracting practices at the CDFI fund. I intend to introduce legislation.

I respect what the gentlewoman said, and I agree with what she has said in part. I would say that there are many questions because we simply do not know, we have not had an explanation. And until we have an explanation, it is hard for us…

on September 18, I wrote the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Hilliard] and told him how important I thought it was that he give a public explanation for his trip to Libya. When I received no response to that letter, I noticed 2 days ago my…