Howard Berman

a top Hamas leader was recently quoted as saying the U.S. would ``get used to Hamas in a year or two.'' I'm afraid he's sadly mistaken. America will never accept a Palestinian Authority controlled by a terrorist organization--1 year, 5…

I was unable to vote on S. Con. Res. 79 today because I was traveling on official business to a Middle East regional security conference in Athens, Greece, and then on to Egypt and Israel for meetings with top government officials. Had I…

I am not in opposition, but I would like to claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized. There was no objection.

I felt that answer was not totally satisfactory from my point of view. Would somewhere in the context of the language of that provision or the report language indicate that it is not our intent in that situation, with your classic refugee…

without accepting the gentleman's assumptions about the worthiness of the bill, I withdraw my reservation of objection. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. There was no objection. Amendment No. 11 Offered by…

Are we now voting on the Sensenbrenner amendment to reduce the crimes on illegal immigrants? The CHAIRMAN. Pending is the request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 7 offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner).

To soften the penalties? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is not stating a parliamentary inquiry. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute…

due to a death in the family, I was unable to vote on the conference report for the fiscal year 2006 Transportation-Treasury-Housing appropriations act. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

I say, where is the Federalist Society when we need them? All of a sudden, everything flips around.

Edward Roybal was a man of dignity and determination. I had the great pleasure of serving in Congress with him for 10 years. During that time, we worked very closely on immigration issues and on many matters affecting Los Angeles and…

I think underlying the gentleman from Michigan's question, is this not about the difference between the FBI and law enforcement using a national security letter to ask a bank to give it the financial records of all of its customers versus…

I thank our wonderful ranking member for yielding me this time. Mr. Chairman, I voted for the PATRIOT Act in 2001. I abstained in the Committee on the Judiciary this year because I was hoping that some of my concerns could be addressed…

I would like to use this time, if I might, to ask the gentleman from Minnesota a question. His amendment says that nothing in this title, this title that the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman Hyde) has brought to us, should be construed to…

would it be fair to say that, in effect, his effort is an effort to gild the lily?

I yield myself 6 minutes. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of S. 167, and I ask my colleagues to join me in voting to pass this worthy legislation. Prior to reporting S. 167 by voice vote last month, the Committee on the Judiciary gave the…

Mr. Speaker, section 101, the asylum provisions, are flawed. Existing law exempts and prohibits terrorists or threats to national security or those who the government can prove through secret evidence are threats to national security from…

what I would have asked the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrey), had he been willing to yield some time, was to show me where in the 9/11 Report it makes any reference to making any of the changes in the asylum law that are being proposed…

The placement of the bill on this agenda at this particular time is a manifestation of the triumph of ideology over common sense, and it is a response to spasms of anger rather than a reflection of sober analysis. Contrary to the arguments…

it is already law that terrorists cannot assert asylum. That is the law. A balanced and sensible proposal to fix our broken immigration system involves better border security, it involves the U.S. Visit Program, it involves sensible…

the Committee on Rules denied me and the rule denied me the opportunity to offer a variation of this amendment in committee, even though they allowed one other nongermane amendment, which we just adopted. This amendment, I believe…

I rise very disappointed in the rule proposed for the consideration of S. 878 and intend to vote against it and urge my colleagues to oppose it. This rule makes in order only two amendments, both offered by Republican Members. It rejects…

I thank the gentleman and I support the gentleman's amendment, but I am curious why an amendment that is being offered in order to avoid a Budget Act problem requires a waiver of the Budget Act.

Now the mask comes off. The last line of the gentleman: They are legislating from the bench; we do not like their decisions. Believe me, my colleagues, the original proponents of this split and many of its supporters are doing this not…

Perhaps the most eloquent and forceful argument against the amendment being proposed and the split being proposed by the gentleman from Idaho came from the former chief judge of the Ninth Circuit, a Montana justice, Judge Browning, who…

Mr. Chairman, I am not challenging the constitutionality of the proponent's amendment. I am challenging the wisdom of the proponent's amendment. If we do this, we are doing something unprecedented with significant adverse budgetary…