Christopher Shays

Mr. Speaker, on March 30, 1973, American combat troops serving in Vietnam completed their service and returned home to the U.S. After 8 years of hard-fought battle and the loss of over 58,000 soldiers, we welcomed our servicemen and women…

Just so the debate is a little more accurate, and we will see how the vote turns out whether I ask for a roll call vote or not, would it not be fair to say that they can live with the money they have, but they would like to have more and…

Reclaiming my time, they recognized name only. That is all the tribe asked for. They wanted nothing else. And it wasn't Congress that did it against their objection. They did exactly what they asked for.

And I might add a former Marine, and I guess always a Marine, who was wounded in battle in Vietnam and was left on the battlefield for 3 hours before he was brought to safety, and we will always be grateful for that service.

Mr. Murtha, they are not going to take 2 months off. They will probably take less time off than this Congress has taken.

I would add to that but also make the point that this won't be the first city that will have to deal with this kind of issue. I mean, we want to be able to protect and prevent a terrorist attack, but there may be some other event. And what…

Let me just point out that States do recognize. But if you establish as a precedent that all tribes recognized by States will get Federal recognition, then you have just included a whole number of Connecticut tribes that will have State…

Reclaiming my time, as we keep talking about it, more warnings go off to me. The fact that they would have only tried for the last 8 years to go through this process, it strikes me as extraordinarily arrogant that this tribe, that has only…

So your reference that one tribe would clearly not want gambling, it is a fact that these tribes did want gambling and the only way you could get this bill through the Chamber was to take it out, and you said on the floor, I think I heard…

Could I ask the gentleman, he mentioned one tribe that he referred to as a Christian tribe, are we recognizing one tribe or six tribes?

The other outrage that is happening is there is a bill, H.R. 1294, that is going to recognize six Indian tribes, bypass the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Corruption is alive and well in this place again because that's what we did a few years…

All Members on this side of the aisle have a tremendous appreciation for this great lady, and we are happy to honor her and are grateful the House is, in fact, honoring her.

I would say to president, when people giving you bad advice, you need to get other people to give you good advice.

If the president wants to build consensus, he needs to have a new secretary of defense.

Congressman Shay says that for cruise ships, one, he doesn't necessarily believe or doesn't frankly know whether the statistics so far provided by cruise ships in general are accurate, and says that basically, that the government, that…

What his case did was alert us to the insensitivity of the cruise line industry that really wanted to dismiss this.

Well, first, I don't believe the statistics. They say, you know, we're a hotel, so we shouldn't have to report. But then they say, you know, we're like a small city.

Well, they clearly don't cooperate. And what that tells you is the cruise line industry is more interested in just kind of getting rid of it instead of dealing with it.

On June 22, 2006, I traveled to Connecticut to deliver a high school graduation address and, therefore, missed 11 recorded votes. I take my voting responsibility very seriously. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on recorded…

What is important in your dialogue is the terrorists. And there was this argument: Well, the terrorists are not in Iraq. I am not going to argue whether they were there before we went in, but no one can argue that they are not there now…

This amendment would add $750,000 to an account that has $1.5 million in it. Mrs. Maloney and I both had legislation adding $1.5 million on top of the $1.5 million to the Civil Liberties Board. Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding that the…

A turning point, possibly. I mean, the first turning point was when we formed a government in Iraq in June. That was a turning point.

You know, you came here illegally. Now you can stay and become a citizen. I don't think that's going to happen.

You know, you came here illegally and now you can stay and become a citizen. I don't think that's going to happen.

I would just like to thank him for his keen work on the subcommittee that oversees a good part of the issue and to say that it would clearly be the intention of this amendment to do that. I certainly will be advocating that the conference…