Christopher Shays

Sadly, I believe these strikes will have no serious military consequences on Assad because he can win this war without using chemical weapons.

The Cold War is over, and the world is a more dangerous place.

It is a human rights abuse that cannot be tolerated.

When a candidate attacks the other candidate for being sleazy and ugly, they are as negative as the candidate that they are criticizing.

Right. Because what we do is we cap the payroll at $120,000. And so it ends up being $12,000 an employer would pay. But when I was speaking of someone with 500 employees, they would pay $21,000 salary, they pay 5.25, 5¼ percent of payroll…

And if I could just jump in. The key that you make is that there are 8 million individuals, either actively working for the government or retired, who are part of the same pool, and so the purchasing power becomes more powerful.

Haiti is a country in desperate need of help, and it is a very close neighbor and friend and we need to do everything we can to help it.

For those of us who are not the sports fans that others may be, it was a tremendously proud moment for us to see the New York Giants put their best team forward in the last game of the season against the New England Patriots when the…

I don't know a Member who didn't appreciate Julia Carson's fine work, who didn't enjoy talking with her. She always had a great response to anything you had to say. She was insightful, she was right to the point, and had a tremendous sense…

As a cosponsor of the PROTECT Our Children Act, I am grateful we are considering this legislation today. This legislation will create a Special Counsel within the Department of Justice, DoJ, to design and organize the Departments child…

I have nothing but admiration for what you are doing and how you do it and the quality with which you are doing it, and I know you have never disparaged any of the Blackwater employees. I just want to say I don't hear compliments, and I…

The bottom line is, Mr. Price, you are totally right. You have never been critical of these contractors. I just came from a hearing yesterday where everyone seems to be critical.

I cannot remain silent over the fact that 79 Members of this Chamber refused to condemn the accusation of MoveOn.org that General Petraeus, who has given 3 years of his life in service to our country in Iraq, has betrayed us. He had a…

But the bottom line, if the gentleman will further yield, is that we literally have more protections to the potential terrorists than we do for someone involved in organized crime. We make it more difficult, not easier, to get that…

What I was struck by was that they showed me a nuclear weapon that they made basically out of material they could have bought at Home Depot. The only thing they needed was weapons-grade material. So I am struck by the stakes being so high…

The Iraqis would say to me, How dare you say we are not a country. We are the Fertile Crescent where two great rivers have met. We have been the center of Western civilization. And for us to say they are not a real country, for them they…

Just to point out to him that what you're encountering is significant. When the Iraqis say to us, be patient, give us more time, what I encountered early on was they were constantly blaming the other groups. The Shiias would blame the…

The bottom line is: In this Chamber, only 69 Members voted against having the Iraq Study Group revisit Iraq so they could come out with a report that could complement, either agree with or disagree with, what General Petraeus and…

I rise in support of H.R. 180, which supports State, city and university efforts to divest funds or restrict investment in companies that conduct business operations in Sudan.

I want a rollcall vote because the Supreme Court did not rule against the provision of Title II. It did not say that BCRA was unconstitutional as it related to Title II. Rather, it stated the provisions were unconstitutional as they…

In May, the Appropriations Committee included language in the FY07 supplemental to impose requirements on the Department of Transportation before they open the U.S. border to Mexican trucks, giving them free range across the United States…

What I am hearing is that you are not saying that these dollars are now going to be in EPA. You are saying basically what is in EPA are for assessments, but not to help developers come in and start to clean up. And what I am hearing you…

The $10 million that is in here, which is a smaller amount than the 25 million that used to be there a few years ago, it will be available if we can convince the Secretary of HUD to allocate these dollars to communities; is that correct?

There is money for brownfields in this legislation. I am just adding 10 percent more. But let's take my amendment out of the equation and at least have this dialogue about brownfields for my edification and for the Record. Is it your point…

The bottom line to my point is, you take these young kids who in many cases have never had the opportunity to work, who work at a minimum wage, are providing a service in the community and are setting aside money for their college tuition…