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we are beginning to see evidence of military shortages everywhere. At the same time, our military is dangerously overstretched. We have fewer and fewer resources and more and more missions, many of them of dubious value and wisdom. Less…
Mr. Speaker, once again Congress finds itself in the midst of one of the most important debates that we have of our generation, this tax limitation amendment. As I listen to the debate, it seems there are some in this body who feel that…
I am introducing the Troops to Teachers Program Improvement Act of 1999. This legislation will enable retiring military personnel to find rewarding second careers as teachers in our Nation's public schools. As we all know, our schools and…
Many of the Nation's most famous and profitable motion pictures were filmed on public land. John Ford filmed his classic westerns around Moab, UT, and the opening scenes of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' were filmed on Park Service land in…
this New York Times headline says it all: ``China Stole Nuclear Secrets for Bombs, U.S. Aides Say: Espionage Case at New Mexico Lab is Said to be Minimized by the White House.'' Why would a case that intelligence experts consider to be…
I think that for us not to do this and to wait until it was too late would be a terrible mistake. I think, as a member of the Committee on Armed Services, there are four considerations that we need to consider before we send troops into…
a lot of people ask me why the government penalizes couples for being married, and the only answer that can I come up with is that the government does some dumb things, and this is one of them. Who is willing to defend this bizarre…
as I walked from my office yesterday morning to this chamber, I was almost overcome by the weight of the responsibility thrust upon us. The idea of having to make a decision on the impeachment of a President is sobering and no one should…
the current budget battle in Washington shows clearly how conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats disagree about the role of government. Republicans think that the Federal Government is too big. Democrats think that it is not big…
the majority of Republicans are conservative and they are proud of that. The majority of Democrats are liberal and I imagine that they are proud of that as well. One can only imagine what the liberals dream about in their private moments…
one can tell an awful lot about people by what they do not talk about. How many times have we heard Members of the other side express their shock, outrage or even curiosity about why 79 witnesses have taken the Fifth Amendment in…
the same people who are whining about a ``do-nothing Congress'' are the very same people who accuse the Republicans of being ``extremist'' for proposing to reform welfare. They were wrong. They are also the very same people who attacked…
12 years and nearly $6 billion after passage of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act, many schools are neither drug-free nor safe. Using this drug prevention money, one Michigan school district gained $81,000 worth of giant…
I rise to express serious reservations about the defense appropriations conference report. I do not dispute the funding decisions made by the conferees. In the main, Chairman Young and Mr. Murtha have brought back to the House a bill that…
Mr. Speaker, I would suspect that most Americans got their first taste of the West through the classic westerns of John Ford, and most of those films were made on public land. Mr. Ford paid a standard fee for the use of those lands, but…
Frankly I was outraged when President Clinton issued that executive order revoking President Reagan's historic executive order on federalism issued in 1987. President Reagan's executive order provided many protections for and reflected…
Earlier this year Bill Clinton issued two executive orders that mandate profound policy changes. Neither of these executive orders received public input and as a result, both orders contained policy decisions which, if left unchallenged…
Mr. Chairman, I am also a member of the Committee on Appropriations, and we have worked very, very hard to work with very few funds this year. If we were talking about the things that the gentleman from New York and the gentlewoman from…
imagine you are falsely accused of crimes. You know that you are innocent, but the people who know the truth simply are not talking. People who could prove you are innocent, it turns out, are the Secret Service personnel who are constantly…
even as angry U.S. taxpayers cry out for overhaul of a tax system that many believe is unfair, oppressive, and unworkable, the Federal Government is spending millions of dollars annually exporting the idiotic system to other countries…
it is time to take stock of the 105th Congress. Despite a slim majority in the House, a Senate that lacks the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster and a liberal Democrat in the White House, the Congress has managed to pass an historic…
the President just got back from his trip to China, and I read in the newspaper while we were home for the break that this trip was symbolic. I began to think, what is it symbolic of? I think it is symbolic, maybe, that the President told…
we have seen this year that the American people have a hard time saying good-bye, good-bye to anything. The final episode of Seinfeld was a national event earlier this spring. We made it clear that we did not want to say good-bye to our…
make no mistake about it, Asia is in a full blown nuclear arms race, and I think Bill Clinton is personally responsible for it. The sad truth is that Bill Clinton permitted the sale of satellite and missile technology to China. China…
Let me just read again a brief paragraph that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) emphasized: Choi Young-Jin, the Korean diplomat who is the U.N.'s Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping, recently admitted that the U.N…
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