Christopher Shays

To correct the Record, Mr. Speaker, this bill passed with bipartisan support in this Chamber. It died in the Senate with bipartisan support. The Senate Government Affairs Committee held a hearing on June 29. They then reported out and…

I do not expect I will be using my entire hour, but I did want to take the opportunity to discuss four items that basically come under the heading of: ``We've got a job to do and we need to get on with it.'' I will cover such issues as the…

Mr. Chairman, this is a conscience vote for each and every one of us. I would like to thank my leadership for allowing every Member on the Republican side of the aisle to come to his or her own conclusion. Americans have the constitutional…

I do not know who shares more of the blame for our annual budget deficits: The Presidents, for not submitting balanced budgets to Congress; The Congresses, for not balancing the budgets they approved and sent to the President for…

One of the things that is so clear in this budget, because of the good work that you have done, is that we know that 12-year-olds having babies, 14-year-olds that are selling drugs, 16-year-olds that are killing each other, 18-year-olds…

I want to congratulate, as well as my colleagues, the Congressional Black Caucus and the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Kweisi Mfume, for the tremendous work he has done in this Congress over a number of years and congratulate him for a very…

I am struck by your talking about what happened in the last 15 months. When the President presented his plan last year, I remember you had already got us working on the Republican side of the aisle to start to find ways to match the…

I love this institution, and I am very grateful to serve here, but I am ashamed it has taken so long to address the post office scandal. This scandal has festered for nearly 3 years, and we have allowed it to happen. We're told the U.S…

I think about how incredible a discussion like this must be to so many people, when we talk about Congress having to live under the same laws that the rest of the country has to live under. It seems pretty logical and kind of basic. It is…

I think about how incredible a discussion like this must be to so many people, when we talk about Congress having to live under the same laws that the rest of the country has to live under. It seems pretty logical and kind of basic. It is…

I just wanted to make reference to one area I had not spoken to, and that was the whole concept of the public's opinion about this. Obviously it is very supportive. But it was documented in a piece that we received from Ross Perot last…

That is nice to know. I guess I would also say that the public can have a tremendous amount of impact. They may have made assumptions that we are under all the laws. It may not have occurred to them that we are not. It never did to me…

I just wanted to make reference to one area I had not spoken to, and that was the whole concept of the public's opinion about this. Obviously it is very supportive. But it was documented in a piece that we received from Ross Perot last…