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as I prepare to retire I understand there are some wags around here who keep saying that will be a big mouth to fill. But this is a day when I am very proud of my big mouth and I am very proud of the results that we have seen, because the…
last June I asked the Secretary of Defense to answer a few questions about growing numbers of military personnel on loan to Members of Congress under questionable circumstances. To date, I have not received a reply. Now I know why. They…
here are six reasons to vote against the fiscal year 1997 DOD authorization conference report: First, the measure provides: $11.3 billion more than the Pentagon requested overall, $7 billion more than requested for procurement, $3.8…
America's communities are being terrorized by lunatics. Our law enforcement officers are the ones who are on the front line trying to bring back some tranquility to America's public places. Our law enforcement officers today look like…
Today is my 56th birthday. I am very, very happy to be here because on my 30th birthday, 26 years ago, I spent it in intensive care, getting last rites, suffering from complications due to childbirth. Obviously, safe motherhood has always…
Mr. Speaker, I think what we have just heard in this colloquy is why we ought to vote against this rule and get this bill out of here. We hear about cruel and unusual punishment, but this is going to be cruel and outrageous legislation…
today our prayer was about doing justice and loving mercy and today our legislative agenda is about descending these steps collecting more and more money from special interest groups. We have failed at campaign finance reform and we have…
I must say, for me this is a very sad day, because if my colleagues really believe we need the best government money can buy, they must be thrilled. Let me put this in some kind of context. My average campaign contribution when I first got…
I rise to agree with what the gentleman had to say. Mr. Chairman, I tell this body that the gentleman from California is being very humble. He has worked very hard on this issue, and so has the Department of Commerce. We have a letter…
as we go into any election, one of the hardest things is to figure out where the candidates really stand on issues. And when we go into any third-grade class in America and we ask the 8-year-olds, ``Okay, what is the best predictor of what…
Mr. Chairman, how sad I am that now for the third time we have seen Members on this floor denying the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia the right to offer her amendment. I think this Gingrich Congress is going to go down as one of…
I just want to say to people who continue to think it is real cute to object to her being able to bring this up: This is wrong. This is how women in this body are treated by the other Members. We are not equal. You would not do this to…
I rise in support of the Schiff-Schumer amendment. Good technology is an important key to a successful counterterrorism policy. Look at how the Wall Street Journal characterized our antiterrorism effort in their headlines yesterday…
The reason I feel the EEOC is very different from other regulatory agencies is we have piled a bigger and bigger workload on them. If we are going to pile a bigger workload on a regulatory agency but treat it the same as SEC when it has a…
the hard part is being to do this with a straight face because we are welcoming everyone to the Republicans' reform week. Yesterday in Roll Call, the majority leader said reform week was not meant to be ``floorcentric.'' Now what does that…
today the Republicans once again rush to act as the demolition team for the American dream, as they are putting on their jerseys and getting ready to rush out there and unilaterally disarm our children as they prepare to move into the…
in 1993, the Denver Post began its editorial supporting my legislation calling for objective scientific information about gun deaths the following way: The often overly emotional debate surrounding gun violence in America disguises a…
I think that this bill and bringing it up today is an absolute outrage. If my colleagues think there is not enough hate and polarization in America, then they are going to love this bill because this just trying to throw some more gasoline…
I proudly rise in support of her amendment. Let us talk a little bit about this. When you do in vitro fertilization, let us face it, you are not going to have any embryos unless the people are willing to consent to give up the egg and the…
it is almost the Fourth of July, and today many of us will be leaving to go home. I know we are going to be giving wonderful speeches about this country, about this country and how we believe it is a government of laws and not of men, that…
first, let me say to the gentleman who was just speaking, if that bill were as he casts it, my name would not be on it. That bill is about making our patent office uniform with both the one in Europe and the one in Japan so our patents…
I am positively amazed by the executives at Mitsubishi Auto Co. They seem to be destined to go in the textbook as the classic textbook case on how not to handle a sex discrimination case. Over the weekend, they decided that they would now…
I first of all take the floor and say how very, very sad I am by the passing of our colleague, Bill Emerson. This is a man who cared very much about hunger issues and nutrition issues, and he will be sadly missed because those are not…
today the Census Bureau tells us something that the average American already knows, and that is, according to census figures, the income disparity between the richest and the poorest in this country is bigger than ever. Bigger than ever…
I rise as one who was born in Portland, OR, loves the forests of the Northwest and am very saddened by the fact that we are not going to be able to do anything to reverse the clear-cutting provisions, that are taking them down so much…
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