David Skaggs

Thank you very much, Barbara. I appreciate the opportunity to report on the Congress to Campus program. Although I have been affiliated with it for a long time, I want to recognize the co-chairs of the program who couldn't be with us this…

Over the last 4 years, the Congress to Campus Program has visited over 120 campuses around the country and really around the world. As most of the people here in the Chamber know, this is a program that exists because of the volunteer time…

Thank you, Mr. President, I appreciate your yielding the time, and I am proud to be able to report to our colleagues about the Congress to Campus Program activities for this past academic year, 2005-2006. As the gentleman from Missouri…

I want to thank all of the schools, all of my colleagues and the membership of the Association who have pitched in to make this possible, as well as the Association Board of Directors, and, in particular, our friends at the Stennis Center…

Mr. Speaker, of course we want to support American troops as they carry out this dangerous and important mission. But let us not lose sight of the sad fact that President Clinton has acted in violation of the Constitution in ordering these…

I think everybody here would agree that it would be unfair for a judge to accept an expense paid vacation from one party in a lawsuit. That is why there are judicial ethics rules against accepting gifts from anyone who is likely to appear…

I want to thank very much the gentleman from Washington. I am grateful for those kind remarks, and let me return them to him. His leadership on this committee has been extraordinary, and the Nation is in his debt for the kind of care and…

as the country and this body battles to find some clarity in the back and forth between the salacious and the fallacious, there are actually some significant and important things going on in Washington and in Congress. One of those has to…

recent reports of atrocities against Kosovo civilians by Serb security forces are certainly appalling. It is further evidence of President Milosevic's criminality in repressing ethnic Albanians. It is entirely understandable why many…

Yesterday we heard news of horrible massacres of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces in Kosovo: women, children, the elderly all shot in cold blood. The same reports say that these massacres may now spur NATO to take military action. As…

when the gentleman from Indiana retires at the end of this session of Congress, this body will be losing one of its most thoughtful leaders. Lee Hamilton will be rightly lionized as an expert and a statesman in foreign policy matters; a…

a year ago, when I announced my decision to support fast track trade negotiating authority, I told my constituents that I was supporting it because I believe strongly that good jobs depend on expanded trade--especially for a state like…

I am saddened by the tone of antagonism and mistrust that is already starting to creep into the proceedings. Perhaps the flaws in this resolution do not equal a violation of fundamental fairness. Due process, of course, is different from…

I did want to take a minute to explain this bill which would add to the National Wilderness System an area of some spectacular mountains in south central Colorado, really unique in their geology and their beauty and their habitat for some…

Mr. Chairman, continuing, what this is really about on the merits is whether we want a country in which all Americans have access to fair employment treatment by their Federal Government. It is as simple as that. It is not about quotas…

let us understand what this is really all about. this is the de facto abrogation of the ABM Treaty because we would be prohibited, under the terms of this amendment, from participating in the Standing Consultative Committee under the ABM…

this amendment makes a very small addition to the Marshals Service fund and deletes $9.4 million in funding for TV Marti for a very simple reason: It is a complete waste of money. I wish to amend the bill at this point in particular so…

I have to say to them that we have tried and tried and tried, and this simply does not work. It is not, as the gentleman from New Jersey suggested a moment ago, a question of political will. Political will cannot repeal the law of physics…

I guess I am in the awkward position of wanting to help love their amendment to death, to acknowledge how meritorious their claim is for additional resources but then say, as the chairman has, 'Not here.' Because the account that they…

Nonetheless we did this UHF to VHF conversion, and it was really no surprise that the signal still did not get through. Let me just give my colleagues some visual evidence that was elicited by one of our own government technicians who went…

Recently there was a survey done in Cuba under the auspices of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the overall entity that supervises our international broadcasting activities. Based upon that survey, in which 4 people out of 284 surveyed…

At a time of economic prosperity, thank goodness, we all generally do feel pretty good about things, but we should bear in mind that there is an enormous underclass in this society that is hurting. And to the extent that we deny them…

I want to first express my thanks to the chairman, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers), and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), the ranking member, and especially the fine staffs for the typically excellent work they have…

I want to see China improve its human rights record, stop repressing the people of Tibet, allow civil liberties and public dissent, and stop persecuting religious minorities. So I understand the appeal of voting for this resolution. It…