Howard Berman

We have an assistance program for low-income people to get subsidies on energy. We do not apportion that based on population. We focus that on States where cold weather requires people to have extraordinary high heating bills. We have crop…

those States like Texas and New York, which do not now comply with the Truth-In-Sentencing Act, will still be better off on this amendment because they will have a preference under the Beilenson language, any money appropriated under that…

And we have had a problem this year with the appropriated monies, the $130 million. I do have to point out that President Clinton was the first President ever to propose funding for this, and Congress appropriated $130 million, first time…

My question is, to just make clear, my understanding is this amendment, if adopted, will not require or put any of those three limitations on. In other words, by definition this is supplanting money. The States are now spending money to…

If I may reclaim my time, I agree, and it does so without providing any effective alternative to protect that individual's fourth amendment rights.

Mr. Chairman, when the court originally came down with the exclusionary rule, it recognized that this is not a good rule in some abstract sense. It is forcing the exclusion of evidence which was seized which could show that an individual…

I rise to express my strenuous opposition to the balanced budget amendment. This debate is about far more than the critical task of balancing the Federal budget. The amendment strikes me as a dangerous and insidious means of fundamentally…

I rise in strong support of the en bloc amendment to the Defense authorization bill. I am especially pleased that my amendment to make workers impacted by reduced arms sales abroad eligible for defense conversion programs was included…

I cannot believe what I am hearing. I ask my colleagues to read the text of this amendment and understand what would have happened if this had been in effect 3 years ago. First, understand this. We can try and dissociate ourselves all we…

Desert Storm was a chapter 7 U.N. operation for peacemaking. It was covered by this. You can say it all you want that it is not covered, Desert Storm was not covered. I understand why you have to say it was not covered, because if Desert…

does the gentleman consider the U.N. supported, participated action in Desert Storm to be an action in which the U.S. Government spend billions of dollars in direct or indirect costs in support of a peacekeeping/peacemaking operation?

I rise in strong support of Beilenson- Berman-Condit-Thurman amendment. In 1986, the Federal Government recognized its responsibility to be financially accountable for illegal aliens convicted of felonies in State courts. Section 501 of…

I rise today to ask my colleagues to join me in commemorating the 79th anniversary of one of the great tragedies of our century--the slaughter of over 1 million Armenians, residents of Ottoman Turkey, between 1915 and 1923. As we remember…

I have a lot of differences with the so-called Kasich substitute. I commend the gentleman for putting together a comprehensive alternative, but I think it has many different faults. There are two that I think are particularly egregious and…

I thank you and I thank the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations for bringing a bill which has a massive impact on my district and is the basis on which we who represent the most impacted congressional districts can turn this…

I rise in strong support of House Resolution 323. The issue here is a very simple one. While the German Government has distributed billions of dollars in compensation to survivors of the Nazi death camps, for some inexplicable reason it…