Jerry Lewis: “George Gekas is a friend of all of ours. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has made a great contribution to the House. It…”

I will be voting ``no'' on this legislation. Over the next few minutes, I would like to share my concerns about this bill as it is currently written. The President, whom I respect a great deal, is a fine salesman. But as I have said on…

if today's actions by the House are any indication, it appears that the Out of Iraq Caucus within the Democratic majority is now running the legislative agenda of the Congress. How else can one explain that the rule governing consideration…

I will never forget running for a school board, and people were talking about the Federal Government's beginning to get involved in education. I remember saying to those people, let us be very, very careful about going to Uncle Sam to…

What I am suggesting, Mr. Obey, is that there are, in this place even, there are people who sometimes use data and statistics for their purposes versus other purposes. This is our committee and I would hope we would run it in regular order.