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I want to begin by saying to our men and women in uniform around the world. That is great. He is always with them taking photo opportunities, but we wonder still why he cannot gag out the word Vietnam, although he did slip once last night…
We only have about 6 months. We are going to vote tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday next week, then no votes until after the Iowa caucuses and the primary at the end of February, February 20 in New Hampshire. Because Bob Dole is the leader and…
even though critically important language on the U.N. or foreign command of U.S. troops and the deployment of this critically needed national missile defense system and contingency funding, all those are out, and Mr. Clinton is going to…
Not a single doctor, female or male, or nurse in the U.S. military wrote to me not to cut this off. Quite to the contrary, all of the doctors in Europe, every one of them and every anesthesiologist and all of the doctors in the Pacific…
this cannot be a happy day for big-taxing and big-spending politicians. Here is the New York Times. It says, ``Clinton Offers Challenge to Nation, Declaring Era of Big Government Is Over.'' That on the Gray Lady, America's so-called paper…
my father, Harry Joseph Dornan, who is the hero of my life, died 21 years ago today. He would be tormented today, as I am, by the lack of character and integrity at the highest level of our Government. Mr. Speaker, he took me and my…
what a pleasure to take the well of the House on this pro-life day. That is the mud of the White House lawn and the Ellipse, Mr. Speaker, you see on my shoes and on the trousers of the suit that I wore the day I nominated George Bush for…
I have never had better members of the former majority, the current minority, to work with. I have taken to calling the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Pickett] my vice chairman. I think that if we did that around here the way they do in some…
here is a particularly thoughtful statement by Col. David Hackworth: The brass decided early on that the best way to prepare for the coming mission is relentless training. Task Force Eagle has spent months rehearsing the details of this…
And then, Mr. Speaker, the horror of millions of land mines. Please read this from the truth seeking Washington Times. The Horror of the Land Mines (By Tom Evans) American troops in Bosnia will face land mines. The folks at home who are…
I was not planning on joining this debate today, but I got a phone call in the Cloakroom about 2 hours ago, and my only daughter-in-law, I have 3 married daughters, a married son, and a single son, and my one son who is married, a…
I hope more than the citizens of Missouri stay tuned to the proceedings of this House tonight via the courtesy of C-SPAN, Mr. Speaker, to hear the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Hancock] give what will probably be one of the more…
Do not mistake the metaphorical quality of my next statements for its lack of theological basis. St. Peter on my judgment day will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life…
we have had a fast 3 days. Started late on Wednesday, finishing early today. Pressure is building up here for a major budgetary struggle between the two major, only major parties in the world's only superpower, on all of these budgetary…
Mr. Chairman, every consultant who has made it to heaven or is in the other place will tell you that the first thing they learn is do not be a flip-flopper, and here is the list of how 230 people voted before. This is not a mockery to the…
I rise with a heavy heart against the violence chip. I am still thinking it through. Mr. Chairman, my conservative colleagues who support the V-chip amendment should be reminded of a bit of recent history. Many of you who have served here…
Mr. Chairman, Planned Parenthood is what we are debating here tonight. Money is fungible, and title X funding must be abolished. It has been nothing but an annual subsidy for the largest abortion provider on the plant Earth with the sole…
the Senior Environmental Employment [SEE] Program at the EPA is the most egregious example of what's wrong with how things work in Washington. The SEE Program is little more than a relic of the Tammany Hall era. Every year six and only six…
this is a cost-saving measure that would be on page 88 at the very end of the bill. It would simply say that in creating a new section 509 that none of the funds under this act shall be used for the Senior Environmental Employment Program…
I rose this morning to discuss again that 11 July of 1995 is a disgraceful day in the history of our country because the Commander in Chief down at the White House in a Rose Garden ceremony--I gag on the words a Rose Garden ceremony--is…
tomorrow may be a truly tragic day in American history, because a person who avoided serving his country three times during the bloodiest subaction of the whole cold war, the conflict that raged on for a decade in Indochina, a person who…
I come to the floor today under unprecedented circumstances. I had signed up for this special order earlier in the week, had moved to cancel it this morning, because at this moment I was supposed to be taking off from Andrews Air Force…
I am so, pleased is not a strong enough word, I am so ecstatic today over this rescue in Bosnia that I am glad I have got a Marine Corps sergeant sitting in the Speaker's chair today. Let me see that 1,000-yard stare, because as a former…
Right. He told me he will put in his chairman's mark my HIV language, and it is not cruel. It simply says, as you and I have spoken, that if you have contracted the AIDS virus, and nobody is left in the military who got it through polluted…
I also take personal affront to any bureaucrat saying, ``I know how to teach your children better than you do.'' No, when that report came out that showed that for the first time in the history of this great Nation, in over two centuries…
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