Pete Stark

the other side of the aisle today will present this bill for debate to assure the public that this Congress is working in the spirit of our limited floor schedule on long-term policies such as saving Social Security for our children. I…

I am troubled, as Members may have realized, and we are doing this just to recap, I least of all would have any brief for Mr. Magaziner and whatever attempts he may have made at public service. I have no brief for people lying, whether it…

I would like to concur in what the gentleman is saying. I have some other language. The court found that ``The declaration Mr. Magaziner made was false.'' It was, ``The most outrageous conduct by the government in this case is what…

I ask the gentleman from Arizona, who is on the Committee on Appropriations, while this may not come before his subcommittee, is he aware of other times when we have appropriated money to pay legal fees for officers or employees of the…

But has the Committee on Appropriations ever appropriated any money? There is a case where the Committee on Appropriations appropriated $430,000 to pay for the White House travel office. How does that differ in a sense technically from the…

what about the two Secret Service agents? There were two Secret Service agents who were investigated for the accuracy of their testimony over White House FBI files. They were not victimized, I do not think. And the Committee on…

one of the people who was sued was investigated by the U.S. Attorney and had to spend some money to defend himself against the U.S. Attorney's investigation, and the U.S. Attorney subsequently decided that the case was not prosecutable or…

I was not allowed into those sessions and felt badly about that. What I am suggesting is that the issue was that subsequent to all of this the people who brought the original lawsuit, mostly asking for an injunction to stop it, that is…

Mr. Chairman, one, I would remind the distinguished gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Istook) that we offered a unanimous consent request which would absolutely cut out the payment with any taxpayers' money and it was rejected by his side of…

reclaiming my time, seriously, nobody is debating that there was serious error, but I do not think anybody in this Chamber can debate the other side and say, nobody else has ever made an error as egregious or as costly, either in dollars…

I really cannot resist, gentlemen. I think my colleagues are on pretty thin ice when they start talking about who is lying and who is hurting the American people. I remember when Secretary Schlesinger and Secretary Kissinger lied to this…

the President under the law cannot. You want him to break the law twice. He has been ordered by the judge to pay the fine. It is only us who can prevent it. So I am offering you the chance again. Let us prevent it. You and I right now…

I would like to include in the Congressional Record a letter that I received from Mayor Roberta Cooper of Hayward, CA

today the House considers whether the information sent to the Congress for consideration in the Independent Counsel Report warrants the start of an impeachment inquiry by the House

There is approximately a $2.5 billion cost, but the true cost, if the gentleman will yield, is actually over $5 billion. There is a gimmick in here, strictly for budget purposes. The bill is sunset at the end of 5 years. If the Members can…

What we do not need is more Republican leadership and innovation on how to screw the average American and give the benefits to the few Republican rich, and that is what this bill does. Mr. Speaker, it is poorly done. The bill is poorly…

I am a liberal. More than half of the families in my district have a labor union member in their household. They work hard and they make very little money. They are in the vast majority in this country, and they are not getting any benefit…

Are you confused? Mr. Speaker, I think a lot of people listening to this debate over the last 2 days are. They should be. In fact this legislation is designed to confuse the process, rushing this through before Congress's month-long…

Does the gentleman suppose they inherited most of their money, what they are getting, $645,000?

I do not have anybody in my district that makes $645,000 a year, but could the gentleman tell me, do they work a lot harder in the gentleman's district than say that group of people down a couple who only make $70,000? Is that what happens…

I oppose this bill and suggest to my colleagues and the American people that it is unfair and unnecessary. The Congress is lying to the American people because this does not balance the budget. It cannot balance the budget until 2002…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2014 cuts taxes by over $100 billion in 5 years and almost $300 billion over 10 years. Those are massive cuts, and if this Congress had the gumption to legislate with long-term interests in mind, we might have scrapped…

And then after that, under the Republican bill, do we not have deficits that just zoom right down to below zero? There is no question, Mr. Speaker, that ultimately the deficit will go back up again because of these tax breaks. If we had…

So if this family around $30,000, $40,000, savings $200, and a family at $150,000 to $600,000 saves $10,000 or $15,000, that $200 is going to be eaten up in higher interest rates, and the people with capital gains in the stock market are…

I rise in support of the Meehan amendment to the fiscal year 1998 agriculture appropriations bill. This amendment is the next important step in the fight against teen smoking. This amendment appropriates $10 million to the Food and Drug…