Asa Hutchinson

Mr. Speaker, the Local Government Law Enforcement Act of 2000 represents an important step by this Congress to assist local governments throughout the country as they confront crime. In stark contrast to the 1994 Crime Act, it does so…

On May 24, 2000, as the House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations status for China, Pastor Wang Li Gong celebrated his 34th birthday by sewing footballs in a forced labor camp in Tianjing. His hands are injured…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in respectful opposition to the motion to instruct conferees. I think it is important to remember at this juncture that this provision is attached to the Defense authorization bill, and this is the Kennedy hate crimes…

Mr. Speaker, I believe that all of America is seeing an attack on the Boy Scouts, and I think that our efforts today in Congress is simply to defend them. The question is about tolerance. The Attorney General of the United States issued a…

I think anytime, as the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) said, that we can discuss the issues of life, that it is a healthy debate for the Congress of the United States; and whenever we conduct it in a high tone, I think it is even…

I just wanted to point out, again, the Federal basis for this, Missouri v. Holland. Justice Holmes, a very distinguished jurist, said that the legislation is valid because there was a treaty involved; and, under the Constitution, the…

the Lopez case is a Commerce clause case in which the Court had indicated that there had to be a recognition of the interstate basis and a legislative history for it. And in this case, this is not based upon the Commerce clause, but it is…

H.R. 4888 is the Innocent Child Protection Act of 2000, which would make it unlawful for the Federal Government or any State government to execute a woman while she is pregnant. This legislation was introduced by the gentlewoman from…

It seems ironic to me when we had the education bill on the floor of the Senate for 8 days, the amendments offered by the other side of the aisle were on health care and campaign finance reform. They had nothing to do with education. Now…

I compliment and commend the Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Nickles, for the hard work he has done and the months of labor he has put into this conference. Anybody who has followed the reports of what has come out of this conference cannot…

I believe, if my father were on the floor of the Senate today, that he would as vehemently and strongly and vigorously oppose this OSHA draconian power move as much as I am going to oppose it. I hardly think it would be prudent on our part…

I hope everybody will read the Murray amendment. In fact, there is nowhere in this amendment that it says a woman who is seeking an abortion overseas has to pay for it. There is nowhere that it says that. But the current policy in fact is…

I ask Senator Murray, if her proposal allows, as she argues, for a true calculation of the expenses, how much does she calculate the Government would be reimbursed for performing an abortion?

Let me clarify a couple of things from my perspective. It has been alleged that if you have a servicewoman who is seeking an abortion under current policy, you put her on an aircraft, fly her back to the U.S. at taxpayers' expense, and…

Is the Senator proposing that the Department of Defense perform elective abortion procedures in countries where abortions are prohibited by law?

one of the issues that has arisen during this debate is whether or not the Murray amendment violates the Hyde provision which prohibits Federal funding for abortion. Proponents of the amendment argue, no, this doesn't violate Hyde because…

I know it is a bad practice when we try to legislate by anecdote. I do know this as well, that much of the debate is centered around whether or not a woman's rights can be protected under current DOD policy. The insinuation has been that…

as chairman of the Personnel Subcommittee on Armed Services, I rise in strong opposition to the Murray amendment which allows abortion on demand in military facilities overseas. I oppose the pending amendment because, No. 1, it is…

I take it that the answer is, yes, that the Senator envisions contracting doctors to perform.

After 1993, when the President, by Executive memorandum, ordered that military hospitals provide abortions overseas, there was, as the Senator from Washington knows, no physician who volunteered to do that. Where there would be no current…

I rise to offer my enthusiastic support for the Federal-State Partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Federal-State Partnership is a collaborative endeavor of the NEH and fifty-six state humanities councils. Its…

I am for campaign finance reform. I voted for cloture on the McCain-Feingold bill, and I would do it again. I think this has merit, but it is the wrong time, the wrong vehicle, the wrong scope. If this is the U.S.S. Warner, this is the…

Benjamin Franklin said that the only thing certain in life were death and taxes, but I do not even think Ben Franklin could have foreseen that death and taxes would eventually come hand in hand. Yet, for too many years, the death tax has…

I join Chairman Warner in expressing my gratitude to Senator Johnson for his leadership on this issue. He made some very salient points on which I hope to reflect in my comments in support of the Warner-Hutchinson amendment. The question…

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission released a report to Congress. This report dealt with the issue of online privacy. The report stated: "Ongoing consumer concerns regarding privacy online and the limited success of self-regulatory…