Asa Hutchinson

Mr. Speaker, last month we honored two men whose sacrifices right here in the Capitol were both shocking and supreme. Our two heroic Capitol Hill police officers, Detective John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut, could never have imagined…

Mr. Chairman, it is the final hour in this debate on campaign finance reform. In life, if you are in the final hour you are all of a sudden seeing the big picture, what is important in life versus what is trivial. In this House, it is the…

As we have learned in this debate, campaign finance reform can certainly be a complex and confusing issue, but the public always has a way of making common sense out of nonsense. To the public, this issue boils down to the meaning of…

I appreciate the answer, but if I could focus on the similarity of the gentleman's bill with the freshmen's bill, you made a decision in your bill that you should ban soft money to the Federal political parties, but not ban it to the state…

I do believe this is a law enforcement issue. You look at the groups that are concerned about this, that support the Hutchinson-Bryant-Barr amendment: The National Sheriffs Association have endorsed this; the Fraternal Order of Police; the…

I believe that everyone today is agreed that we do not want to have discrimination in our country and particularly by the Federal Government. I fought that as a prosecutor, as a private attorney, and I think we agree that should not take…

When I talk to people who are in hearings that are involved with the drug cartel, I ask them the question, do those in law enforcement have greater resources, or those in the drug business? And whether it is the DEA or those in the…

Reclaiming the time, the gentleman is correct that these ethical standards apply to government attorneys, but if we have a State prosecutor who is cross designated to be a special Assistant United States Attorney, then that State…

I have made mention of the fact I am a former Federal prosecutor, and that is true. I was a prosecutor in the mid-80's, but after I left that, I became a defense attorney. So I have sat in that courtroom and I have heard a jury come back…

coerced abortion and religious persecution are two practices that the Chinese Communist Government denies take place in China. How, then, would denying visas to Chinese officials in which we have credible evidence that, in fact, they are…

TITLE IX HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA Subtitle A--Forced Abortions in China Sec. 9001. This subtitle may be cited as the ``Forced Abortion Condemnation Act''. Sec. 9002. Congress makes the following findings: (1) Forced abortion was rightly…

I turn, I believe, to an issue of great, great importance to this body and to the Nation. In defending his policy before he left for China, President Clinton said: We do not ignore the value of symbols, but in the end, if the choice is…

The officials that are listed of the various religious organizations that the Senator listed in the amendment are, in fact, Government employees, and Government agents. They are those at the head of these associations. These are the…

You were speaking very positively about the changes in China. My question is, How do we reconcile the recent round of arrests that occurred in the 2 weeks--actually, the week subsequent to the President's visit--headlined in all of the…

On behalf of the nearly one million members and supporters of the American Conservative Union, I commend you for your introduction of S. 1673, the Tax Code Termination Act. The purpose of the legislation is simple: by abolishing the…

No, I have never--I have never--endorsed or signed on to any measure, and to suggest that I favor a 30 percent national sales tax or any form of sales tax is absolutely a misrepresentation and a mischaracterization of my position.

I, first of all, do not know to which study the Senator is referring. There are many studies on the various rates of a flat and sales tax. But what I would suggest is that the principles laid down in the bill that I introduced and in the…

I respond to the Senator, the whole point in having the sunset date is to force us into a national debate to decide the very question he poses. If I might continue, to argue the debate on what the pros and cons are on a sales tax, flat…

like Senator Lott, our majority leader, I am most reluctant to offer this amendment in opposition to the sentiments of the chairman of the Finance Committee. Likewise, I have the utmost respect for my colleagues on the other side of the…

the numbers we have indicate--and these are as of July 3, 1998--the cash reserve is $6.8 billion, which is considerably different from the numbers that you are presenting, and that, in fact, the information I have is that reserve would be…

That is my very concern--then we would force students into direct lending. We would force institutions to adopt that program whether they want to or not.

If I might just conclude, we can stand here and debate and have a colloquy over the numbers you presented. I cannot and would not question the numbers you presented my colleagues, so I will not speak on the aggregate that you presented…

If I might respond, if I understand what you have just read from the law, that while that ensures the fact the Federal Government is the ultimate guarantor, that that only occurs when the guaranty foundation, the guaranty agency, has faced…

Without the Harkin amendment. With the Harkin amendment, it will be a considerable decrease in addition to that. Once again, I would say the projections are, within 2 years they would be insolvent, and the worst case scenario would become…

In all of those 14 years I was a monster in the daytime injuring others by the Chinese Communist authorities' barbaric, planned birth policy. But, in the evening, I was like all other women and mothers enjoying my life with my children. I…