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I wonder if we might send the Sergeant at Arms out around the House buildings to search for conservatives. We seem to have lost our conservative grounding in this Congress, after all of the protests that we have heard over the last, almost…
We should do the right thing. We should do the careful thing. We should do the conservative thing. We should reject this bill.
What more will we be able to do, having all of this additional information collated with new computer programs and so forth, that we cannot now do?
Reclaiming my time, the local operation already keeps records by the kinds of cases they are litigating. If that is the gentleman's concern, that they are getting into kinds of cases that they should not, that information exists. What…
I cannot help but observing in response to the prior gentleman's points that they had nothing to do with the substance of the amendment before the House.
If all the gentleman is concerned about is that they are getting into the kinds of cases the gentleman does not like and that are proscribed, why do we not limit the gentleman's amendment to making sure they have available at the local…
whatever the merits of the argument the gentleman has just made, the Burton amendment will not address them. It has nothing to do with the points the gentleman made.
That information is now readily available. It does not require names and addresses. That does not add anything to understanding the kinds of cases of either plaintiffs or defendants. It does not require names of courts attached to those…
Reclaiming my time, I am not complaining about the information we need to do oversight. That already exists at the local level.
Mr. Chairman, I am still just confounded by what practical difference the gentleman believes his amendment will make. If we are talking about oversight, we already have a requirement and generally administrative practice on the part of…
Let us not do this fast, maybe wrong, and with ill consideration in the context of an appropriations bill. The gentleman has indicated that if we defeat his amendment, and presumably later on defeat the Murtha language, this will be a…
I strongly oppose the Smith, Barcia, Hyde, and Oberstar amendment. This amendment would reinstate the Mexico City restrictions and prohibit U.S. funding to any private, nongovernmental, or multilateral organization that directly or…
it is my personal privilege and honor to welcome this morning to the House of Representatives my pastor from Boulder, CO, the Reverend Bruce Mackenzie who just delivered the opening prayer. He is the senior minister at the First…
I authored section 3161 of the 1993 defense bill that authorized these programs. I think they will continue to play a very important role as we go further into the post-cold war period. So I was worried about proposals initially in the…
If I can reclaim enough time to respond, I believe, as the gentleman knows, that funding is for looking at past classified information, things that have been sitting in the archives that need additional staffing in order to be able to be…
This proposal will not hurt national security. What will it do? It will enhance our responsibility to the American public for them to have as much information as possible about their government. And I think it is irrelevant whether we get…
I want to see China change. I am tired of waiting for China to improve its human rights record, to stop repressing the people of Tibet, to allow civil liberties and public dissent, and to stop persecuting religious minorities. I'm deeply…
our flag commands the deepest respect because it stands for a Nation and a community that is strong, strong enough to tolerate diversity and protect the rights of those expressing unpopular views, and even expressing them on some…
the gentleman again invokes the panel's report. The panel was commissioned to find out whether anybody saw the signal. They then went beyond that commission to come up with this completely uncharged idea of going to UHF. I am sure the…
Amendment offered by Mr. Skaggs: Page 97, line 1, insert ``(A) Authorization of appropriations'' before ``For''. Page 97, after line 3, insert the following: (B) Limitation.--Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subparagraph…
my amendment would bar continued TV Marti broadcasts to Cuba after the end of this fiscal year, when moneys appropriated for that purpose would end. This amendment is not about Cuba, not about Castro; it is an amendment that would cut…
Mr. Chairman, we currently have a voluntary agreement which has resulted in a huge decrease in dolphin mortality associated with tuna fishing. This bill would change U.S. law so that that voluntary agreement can essentially be incorporated…
this bill holds out a false hope. It may reduce some juvenile crime by forcing States to impose longer sentences on young offenders. But in return, it will guarantee that many of those young offenders will become career criminals. We…
Given that we have a tradition in comparable areas of especially impaneled three-judge courts to deal with civil rights cases and other constitutional matters, clearly there is precedent for that and I do not have any problem with this…
I am joining with three other colleagues in introducing a bill to give the President and Congress new, effective and, very importantly, constitutional powers to weed out wasteful Government spending. As my colleagues know, the Federal…
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