Jeff Flake

Reclaiming my time, I take it I am not going to get an answer to this. All we know is from a press release, and we know that this is simply the latest traunch in other funding that has been provided. What I hear, and I guess the author is…

Can I yield to the ranking minority member and ask: Has there been any hearings on this project, the Virginia Science Museum?

Okay. Does anyone know? Have there been any hearings, or has this ever been authorized? All right. Thank you.

The bill that you mention is a perfect example. We do not need earmarks like this. We knocked all the earmarks out. We survived just fine. Members survived just fine. They were reelected. They came back. That was the only Labor-HHS bill I…

Reclaiming my time, should we not have similar programs for other industries, perhaps have other earmarks to help us analyze the cost of computers? Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will yield further, let me just say to you…

Has there been a marked improvement in the way we have studied these issues? Didn't we get along just fine before this program existed? Ms. DeLAURO. I just laid out for you the specific incidents. I don't make them up. You can go back and…

I like sunsets, everybody in Arizona likes sunsets; but if we truly believe that this is really going to be sunsetted, then we are kidding ourselves, and if we spend $400 million on a grant program that the President even says that we do…

I would just point out that had any of us known Mr. Cunningham had been bribed for the earmarks he got, it is still unlikely we would have been able to go and challenge those earmarks. The underlying bill will at least make that possible…

Before yielding 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana, let me just say that asking the Postal Service to give up what might lead to giving up their monopoly or a portion of their monopoly is unreasonable. We need to prime the pump a…

The bank can make the challenge itself. The bank can challenge the scope. They are the recipient of the national security letter.

Part of what we have done in this amendment is offer individuals the opportunity to challenge the scope of the request. So whether or not it applies to them or additional people is challengeable through this amendment. That is part of what…

What the PATRIOT Act did was to move or to change the standard to relevance. There has to be a finding of relevance. If it is relevant to an investigation, then it is in my view proper they should be able to compel records.

I thank the sponsor of this amendment. It is important. I think that we need to do all we can to make sure the feeder documents, the primary documents upon which passports are issued, are safer than they are today. I think it is important…

Before yielding the balance of my time to the distinguished chairman, let me just point out, if this is contempt, the only difference, because the Lantos substitute is the same substance, is that this maybe is contempt with teeth as…

Mr. Speaker I rise today to encourage this body the take up meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform. As conservatives, we believe in the rule of law. We believe that we ought to enforce the law, but before we can enforce the law, we…

Let me just read this statement. It seems the Washington Post has some sympathy for this: ``The Federal Government is the largest landowner in Washington. Since the land cannot be taxed, the Federal Government is the principal contributor…

I don't know how you can have this level of mismanagement at the U.N., this big of a scandal, and not say to the man at the top that you had nothing to do with it.

Mr. Chairman, there are two bases on which to go for this amendment. One is the economic one, and one is the health one. You heard my colleague from Maryland give all the reasons on the health side, but if you look at the simple facts out…

I would simply say that it has been pointed out again and again here, this does not prevent a buyout. Perhaps a buyout is proper, but it should happen not with taxpayer funds, but with industry funds. So this simply protects the taxpayer.

I feel compelled to say again, this is not about travel. This is about the freedom of Cuban Americans to send packages of soap and clothing and personal hygiene items to their families in Cuba.

To me, the only thing worse than a bailout of an industry is a bailout of certain segments or certain companies within an industry, and that is exactly what the Senate version of the bill purports to do. We should not be going this…

But it really made me think and ponder back about our time with the Iraqi people and about the experiences that we had where the yearning for freedom is strong; it is in the soul of every man and woman. And as our President has said…

We were told that Saddam Hussein had built some 70 palaces just in the last 10 years during the time of the sanctions for food program, or the oil for food program, where every drop of oil revenue was supposed to be spent for the benefit…

Had everyone known it would be $534 billion, it may have caused a few other members of Congress to not get on board. And that would have been helpful, frankly, to those of us that didn't want to see it passed.

Let me rephrase the question. If NASA takes advantage of the new flexibility given them to the fullest extent, will it have an additional draw on the Treasury or will it be totally within NASA's existing budget?