Christopher Shays

There is a concern obviously with continuing resolutions. Is there a way to deal with that issue?

If I can just add, reclaiming my time, evidently not one of these projects done by these organizations have had to deal with assaults by Iraqis, have had a building or something which was then destroyed by insurgents. They have all…

I appreciate this resolution being brought to the floor so quickly and urge its passage. The Hamas victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections is of great concern to me and many others and presents a major challenge to the peace…

And so I'm left with the feeling like the administration feels they have to protect you because you warned them. But you didn't warn us.

And that's why I'm happy you left, because that kind of, you know, look in the lights like a deer tells me that you weren't capable to do the job.

And enable flying operations for all fixed-wing aircraft at that base.'' It is opening a base. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to make a closing comment, and if I am not allowed to, I would object. And my closing comment is this. This is to…

Does the gentleman know the provision I am talking about? It says, ``Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force shall open the air field at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.'' Open…

Then, Mr. Speaker, reserving my right to object, I yield to the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young).

I oppose H.R. 3313, legislation which would prevent our courts from ruling on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. I value our justice system and place great faith in the ability of our courts to ensure the laws we pass…

I do not think I have done a special order this entire session, but I am doing one tonight because I feel very strongly about an issue, and that is the Oil-for-Food Program. And my subcommittee is working, as is the Committee on…

Absolutely I do. Because the U.N. needs these resources for a lot of reasons and the nongovernment organizations that are involved in trying to help create some peace in Iraq, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I do not think it is…

I think the story is somewhere in between. The bottom line is we have people on passenger airplanes who believe that we check the baggage that is in the cargo of those airplanes. I think maybe at a minimum we should at least give them a…

When we tried to eliminate it in the past, we were told we were eliminating it for the wealthy. And, in fact, we were saying, it is not a tax on the wealthy, it is a tax on the middle class. This tax does need to be eliminated. It was…

I just wish him well as he goes forward. It is the least that we can do to name a post office in his honor. There are some Members who get elected to Congress, and it is an honor for them to be able to serve. I am convinced that Bob Borski…

Mr. Chairman, I know it is getting late. It is 10 p.m., but words like ``immoral'' and not providing money to our troops is just over the edge. Our troops are going to get all the money they need to do whatever they have to do to protect…

Mr. Chairman, this is not campaign finance reform, it is national security. And we want the President of the United States to have the same power previous Presidents have had for national security. This is national security. What the…

I ultimately believe this should be a commission of people outside Congress and outside working for the administration. It needs to be people totally independent; people like a Sam Nunn or a Warren Rudman, or some others of that status…

Mr. Speaker, the invention of modern air conditioning has clearly changed our country. Modern air conditioning fueled the post-war growth of sunbelt cities such as Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Houston. The invention of modern air…

Very briefly, I would love to just say, Mr. Speaker, that this basketball team and the teams that Lew Perkins has put together, the athletic director, have brought Connecticut together. I represent a part of Connecticut closer to New York…

I just want to say honestly to this Chamber that I believe that the comments made by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Tom Davis) were correct. I am going to be voting against this amendment, but I do believe his point that my colleagues…

I wish this amendment were not here, as a purest, but I think it is fair. My concern is that it is a good amendment now, that it could be changed over time, but it is fair now. It works now.

I hope this amendment succeeds with all that I can urge. It is not a question of going from the $1,000 to $2,000, it is a question of going from $2 million to $2,000, or a half a million to $2,000, or $200,000 to $2,000. We have gotten…

I support this amendment with all my heart. I think the one weakness in our bill is that when you run against someone wealthy, you cannot get the same resources and you are put at a disadvantage, and especially if we are going to take away…

If there was a vehicle that we can satisfy your ambiguity, the ambiguity that you thinks exists, I would be eager to settle this and to adopt it. Eager to.

They cannot use soft money to pay off a hard-money debt. That is simply not true. This bill is different. Our bill is different than it was because a funny thing happened. The Senate got to look at our bill and they made some changes. They…