Sam Farr

But those are not foreign nationals. So a foreign national would be a person who is coming to this country but does not have a green card? For example, a tourist could be a foreign national?

I am sitting here tonight wondering what is happening to us. Have we become so suspicious of our own country that we do not believe in democracy anymore? This debate is supposed to be about campaign finance reform, and now we are debating…

What do you do with the individual who is very wealthy and you are in a very poor district?

The other question is why does it only apply to Air Force One? Why does it not apply to Members of Congress?

And I am just curious as to why this penalty is a more severe penalty than if an individual was caught as an illegal alien. If a person crosses the border with no papers, they are not entitled to be in this country, they are not a tourist…

If a person came here, under the debate we are having on the floor now, under H-1B waivers, which are essentially the way we try to import high-tech people, professional engineers, scientists who are not American citizens to work with…

in the H.R. 600 that I drafted, what it said is we put limits on what you could spend, because that was the real problem. In that, we said, if you were a wealthy candidate, you can only spend $50,000 of your own money.

I really looked at this, because this is one of those issues where it really sounds good. But let me tell the gentleman from California why it is rejected. It is rejected because as he knows under Federal law, you do not have to live in…

I like what the gentlewoman just said, but I do not think that is what the language put in here says. It says ``provide currency to any person for purposes of carrying out activities on the date of an election to encourage or assist…

Because the gentleman flies home every weekend on the taxpayers' money, he may be home on the taxpayers' money doing a political campaign event. That is his transportation to his district. So if the President goes to your district and does…

The problem is that the program is broken. It needs a commitment. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) certainly has given his commitment to it. I believe that he is sincere, but we need to get it off the ground.

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The campaign of the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps) is very well-known in this country. And what she is saying is her campaign was taken over by outside influences, both her campaign and her opponent's, and these outside…

Mr. Speaker, leadership is about getting results. This rule that we are about to vote on ensures no leadership. It ensures a lot of talk, but no results. Campaign finance reform is complicated because we have to reform all of the law; we…

I rise today because we are finally getting around to campaign finance reform, which as many people know, I have authored the major bill on campaign finance reform which will be debated. So the idea that we are debating campaign finance…

The conference committee report is a good report. It is a good deal. The compromises have been made. And frankly, as a member of the Committee on Agriculture, the reason we got to the compromises is because the food stamp program allowed…

I just want to say that I really enjoy seeing this wonderful bipartisan support for education here on the House floor. I cannot think of any issue that is more of interest to the people in this country now than education, and it is…

I rise today with respect to a tragic--and, unfortunately, still largely unknown--event in world history. Eighty-three years ago, the Armenians of Ottoman Turkey became the victim of a comprehensive government-sponsored campaign of…

well, we were here yesterday for almost 12 hours; and we were able to kill campaign finance reform. It reminds me of borrowing a lyric from the old song ``The Party's Over:'' ``It's time to wind up the masquerade. But make up your mind…

Mr. Speaker, I have not had the privilege of visiting this area, but I understand that President Theodore Roosevelt was among one of many Americans who appreciated the stark beauty of the North Dakota lands. In this bill we are really…

Nothing that they have investigated was brought for campaign finance reform. This has nothing to do with the investigation. They have not limited foreign corporations from contributing to campaigns. It has cost this House $5 million so…

just a moment ago it was said that we were getting too carried away. Let us look at the record of who is getting a little carried away. According to Congressional Quarterly, the Republican leadership has had the most expensive…

we are here tonight to discuss campaign finance reform. Where is everybody else? Half the Nation is watching basketball games. Half the Congress is attending a funeral. What kind of business are we in? This House, your side, the House…

Mr. Speaker, I rise also to enthusiastically support this legislation. This will provide much-needed funds, again, taxpayer money, for the protection of highly endangered rhinos and tigers throughout the world. Why do we spend American…

I wonder if this trail is going to lead us into some meaningful campaign finance reform. Do my colleagues think that we could sort of get, in a bipartisan spirit, this idea that we ought to probably limit the amount of money that goes into…