Randall Cunningham

Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a look at the public trust. In the 102d Congress our freshman class speaker pursued, with the Gang of 7, the House Bank scandal. Why? Because the Majority, just like it is doing now, is attempting to…

Some of the components that we are talking about which are some of the Michel ideas, the Republican ideas, and hopefully the bipartisan coalition emerging ideas, would be eliminating the preexisting illness that was talked about but also…

Yes; it is. I thank the gentleman for yielding. One of the problems that we have is the O&M accounts, which is operations and maintenance. I think the President and this administration and the House is trying to beef up that O&M account…

What is even worse is that where you have a force that is not trained properly, because it does not have the maintenance or the airplanes to fly, but when you have a foreign policy like Somalia that had 18 marines killed and 77 wounded…

A pilot is not going to take, generally, I would say 99\/10\ of the time, a pilot, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army, is not going to take an airplane they feel is unsafe. The airplane is going to have to be up. It may not have some of…

It was not just the Air Force, it was the Commandant of the Air Corps and the Chief of Naval Operations, and they are exactly right. The funding levels for 1995 they are looking at, they can get by, but if we really do get in a conflict…

The base realignment and closure, because during the 1993 rounds there is not even the dollars to close those bases, take care of the environmental concerns, so that we can actually save dollars down the line. Both the Marine Corps…

In 1972, I wrote a book, and I wrote the book because I held some of my friends in my arms that died on a carrier. Some I was not able to because they were killed. And I can remember thinking, Don't the Members of Congress know what they…

We need to clarify that not everybody coming across the border illegally is doing that.

The amendment by the gentleman from California that offered it states that it will not affect private schools and home schooling, as the gentleman from California suggests. We feel differently. There is going to be an amendment offered on…

Preexisting, and that is if you have a heart problem or cancer, it may be difficult for you to get a job, but if you change jobs with the new insurance plan, both of them take care of that, and that kind of reform where insurance cannot…

The only thing I would like to say is we need to be very careful when we talk and focus and let people know we are talking about illegal immigration, not normal immigration. The United States has more legal immigration in the United States…

You know, if you tell an employee, a union worker or a Federal employee, that everything they worked for in the health care plan is going to come under this alliance, they do not like it. Senior citizens do not like it, whom we call…

I care more for my children than you do, and I want to have control of where my child goes for health care and who gives that health care, because I care more. ... The point being that people want the individual right to choose a doctor…

85 percent of the American people like their health care plan, but they also realize that it needs a lot of fixes. One-third of the people not insured are basically your young people. When you were 18, you could not be told that you needed…

I rise in mixed emotions, because the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentleman from Indiana I think have good points. I do not think it should be funded in this way. However, if we do not fund it, I feel that the military did not ask…

the No. 1 priority should be to provide the aid, not only to the earthquake victims, but to the flood and hurricane victims. However, most Americans feel that this aid, this No. 1 priority, should be offset by a lesser priority spending…