John Doolittle

The problem we have had is, frankly, the authorizing committees, for whatever reason, have chosen not to act. And in that vacuum we've been faced with a crisis of what do we do with the teacher being laid off or in Oregon's case with…

I thought I made clear, the bill allows for foreign investment in the country. The student, under the provisions of this amendment, himself would not be able to buy the home if he were a student not able to work, therefore not having a…

You would have to be entitled to have a Social Security number, which, as I understand it, would be someone who is employed here.

The underlying bill makes numerous references to public infrastructure. We feel this, indeed, is public infrastructure, and that it deals with roads and schools. There are certainly needy counties by virtue of being included in this Secure…

Osama bin Laden said the center of the war on terror is in Iraq, yet we hear Democrats asserting Iraq has no connection to the war on terror. Osama bin Laden declared that, and that is why we need to understand it is important that we…

And the increase in mandatory spending, and two-thirds of the budget is mandatory spending, we slowed the growth rate of mandatory spending for the first time in 9 years. 1997 was the last time that happened. Those are two huge…

And yet they talk about it all the time and blame us for being antihealth care and antieducation. And yet all the innovations that have occurred in the last dozen years have occurred under Republican leadership.

As I recall, it was the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Zoe Lofgren) who thought this would be an appropriate procedure to bring it to the floor on suspension. So there was no abuse of power. This is strongly supported by both parties. I…

Reclaiming my time, I thank both these gentlemen and commend the gentleman from New York (Mr. Fossella), the author of the permanent legislation, and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton), the chairman of the primary committee with…

We must stop using taxpayer dollars to subsidize Viagra for sex offenders. It was recently revealed that almost 800 convicted sex offenders in 14 States have received Medicaid funded Viagra and other similar drugs. This practice is a…

I apologize to my good friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Cunningham), but I have always supported the oil and gas exploration. Our economy demands it, and I believe this can be done safely. It is a jobs issue, it is about lowering…

I offer this bill which would amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to permit members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to serve two terms instead of one. The committee believes that amending the act to…

I just have some comments on the Shays- Meehan bill. This thing just died of the weight of opposition against it. I just want to read from a list of both conservative and liberal groups who oppose this legislation. In fact, you could get a…

I remember reading these figures. At the time of the Gulf War, we were only 36 percent dependent on foreign oil. Under the Clinton-Gore administration, we have now slipped over the line to the point where now we are 56 percent dependent on…

Your remedy is not to bridge the freedom of speech but is to raise the limits on hard dollars so we do not have all this pressure for soft money issue ads.

I know that something jumped out at me that I did not realize, and that was that he was a graduate with highest honors of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he received his Bachelor's Degree in the administration of justice…

Mr. Speaker, the primary purpose of H.R. 4079 is to authorize the construction of a temperature control device on Folsom Dam. The dam is located about 20 miles upstream from the city of Sacramento, California on the American River. A…

I respect the honesty of the gentleman. I completely disagree on the solution, but I think some of the problems he has identified are real problems.

Whereas now that is clear. If we do not use certain words, it is clearly beyond the purview of Federal regulation. Now everything is arguably within the purview.

I am not satisfied with the gentleman's response to me on the voter guide, why he thinks that is permitted by Shays-Meehan. Now the gentleman is asking me to comment upon his hypothetical.

In drafting the original amendment, which we are now seeking to modify, although we strike out the coordination language in this subsection B, I would just reference the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) to the overall section 206…

It was my intent when we offered this to have it drafted in such a way as to protect the printed material or material on the Internet. It really was not my intent to go beyond that. The wording of the amendment arguably does go beyond…

I want to note that one of those points says promoting homosexuality to school children. And then down below in the real fine print, which no one can read from here, the Christian Coalition is described as a pro-family action organization…

Let me say that my amendment is pretty clear, I think. What the gentleman was describing was exactly what Bill Clinton and Al Gore did in this last election. Now, Shays-Meehan wants to make that illegal. I do not want to make that illegal…