the gentleman made an interesting point. He said none of the hijackers were U.S. citizens. That means that all of the people who got here made it through some government employee, through some government process to get here in the first…

The reality, as the gentlewoman said, is that at the end of the day this is not a partisan debate. This is not Republican and it is not Democrat. There is not a Republican or Democrat way to make our skies safe. But it is a very, very…

on December 7, 1941, America was forthrightly challenged by a foe. A foe that came in marked planes and attacked military targets. They stood forward to defend themselves and their possessions. That was the Pearl Harbor attack. Yesterday…

I would simply say it was impossible to stand there and not be stricken with grief and embroiled in rage. The survivors of this tragedy, the victims and their families, deserve our thoughts and our prayers. It was brought home when we went…

as we stood outside of the building, witnessing the devastation, listening to the descriptions, the fact is that from the outside we can only see a part of what is going on. There is vastly more destruction inside the building as it is…

Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the gentleman has read page 167 of the bill which provides to certain health care plans sponsored by very large group providers absolute immunity for nonmedical injuries? The language of the gentleman's bill says…

I rise to address the tragic issue of carbon monoxide deaths on lakes around the country and in any body of water. A little under a year ago, two young boys, Dillan and Logan Dixey, ages 8 and 11, died tragically swimming off the swim-step…

I rise to commend and pay tribute to the University of Arizona Wildcats on their outstanding basketball season. This is truly a special team which should be lauded for their courage and for their effort in the face of very, very difficult…

I oppose this motion to instruct, and I urge my colleagues to defeat it. I think it is important that we look at precisely what the motion to instruct does. There are two pieces to it... steps to begin meetings have in fact been agreed to…

What the Skelton amendment does is give an absolute blank check. Let me make it very, very clear. The language of the bill does not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Indeed, nothing in the language of the bill would in any way hamper…

That is exactly right. The whole theory behind the Patients' Bill of Rights is between a combination of complex government regulations, and going at the issue of ERISA reform by allowing lawsuits, we can solve the problem. That is not…

Mr. Speaker, today, on behalf of myself and 13 other colleagues, I have introduced the Patients' Health Care Choice Act, H.R. 1687. We are embroiled in a great debate about health care reform in this Nation, and it is appropriate that we…

I listened to my colleague read the Washington Post editorial this morning, and I understand that the Washington Post thinks that this is a show boat. That is their opinion. They also say it is the view of the minority. The polling data…

I want to begin this debate by pointing out that 68 percent of all Americans approve of adopting this kind of amendment. And as my colleagues might expect, that support is stronger amongst Republicans than amongst Democrats. Indeed, 75…

I have put 5 years into my fight for this legislation, I have worked shoulder to shoulder with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton), and let me assure my colleagues on behalf of the taxpayers of America this is deadly serious. Indeed I…

I have put up here on this poster a quote from John Randolph. John Randolph served in this body in the late 1800s as a Member of the U.S. House and then as a Member of the United States Senate. And he said what this debate is really all…

Mr. Chairman, I too would like to join the others in this Chamber complimenting both the majority and the minority in drafting this bill, but I rise in very strong support of the gentleman's amendment. Let me try to clarify the issue with…

I know the gentleman would agree with me that this legislation today, the Republican legislation before us today, takes important steps toward solving these problems, but that there is also agreement on the part of the gentleman and on the…

I am very proud of this budget. This budget does set the right priorities and takes this country in the right direction. If there were a little more truth on this floor and a little less rhetoric, perhaps we would see that. We have heard…

I heard a colleague early on in the debate say clearly that the evidence was all on one side; that, in fact, there was clear and convincing evidence that these programs indisputably work, that they lower HIV conversion, and that they do…

It is often important in a debate to have a red herring. If we do not want to talk about the real issue in a piece of legislation, talk about something that we can imply is involved in the legislation but really is not, a red herring. In…

Almost a two-thirds majority of all Democrats across America in a nationwide poll, just short of two-thirds of all Democrats in this country, favor the adoption in America today, hopefully by this vote tomorrow, of a supermajority…

Now we just need to make sure that those Americans who feel like communicating their sentiments, hopefully 75 percent of all Republicans across the country, 63 percent of all Democrats across the country, will call and let their Member of…

He just gave me a thumbs up. We have got three votes. We are on a roll. This could be almost a telethon. We are talking about building a vote for a tax limitation amendment. The gentleman from Texas mentioned earlier the effect of this…

Or to convict a President in impeachment proceedings. If you add those supermajority provisions or requirements that were in our original Constitution with those that have been added to the Constitution by amendment, there are today…