Sam Gejdenson

my friends on the majority, the Republicans, are on the horns of a dilemma. They are trying to keep the focus on the Presidential campaign. They always forget Mr. Barbour, their chairman, who got a half a million dollars from a Chinese…

I cannot help but respond to my colleague's comments. While I think he is well-intentioned, there are some issues that I think have to be addressed. The United States, at the end of World War II, spent $16 billion in 1950's dollars in…

Mr. Speaker, I am just stunned to hear my friend from California endorsing President Clinton's agenda and his successes, and it is so nice to see him recite all the advances that have occurred under this Democratic President. Now he did…

I will be very brief at this point and just close by saying that, in following up on what my colleague from Maryland said, that what we do here is very important. Our responsibility here is to fight for the men and women back in our…

Our greatest frustration, of course, was not with this portion of committee funding. Many Members on the other side of the aisle, obviously, were upset and I think outraged by the amount of funding and the uncontrolled situation with the…

this last Friday we celebrated Steven Spielberg's filming at a former defense facility, not a war movie but a movie about slaves who revolted and freed themselves. As exciting as the topic of the story is, it was exciting to see defense…

I would have thought there would have been additional funds in this bill for medical needs of Members on the majority side who had their arms twisted yesterday. I have not been able to find that. They have done a fine job of it, I…

we have a job here and the job is to make a decision as to what the proper method to proceed is. Now, we are going to go back and see our constituents over this next recess. The question as constituents meet us on the street, whether we…

you know one of the problems we have here, there are a number of issues before us. First of all, if we fail to pass this resolution, it does not stop the legislative process. Frankly, when we came here in January we operated without a…

let me say that what we are faced with here is a diversion from Hershey. We have great discussions about bipartisanship and rather than dealing with the responsibilities that are before us, we take up the campaign rhetoric over the debate…

We passed campaign finance reform and President George Bush vetoed it. We passed it through this House. It got to the Senate, and I can only reference the gentleman in the other body in the Republican Party from Kentucky who filibustered…

I find a very frightening trend in this Chamber that there is an attempt to squelch free speech. It actually started in the very first days of the Congress, shutting down some of the institutions that represented various concerns in the…

I want to commend both the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton], the ranking member, and the gentleman from New York, Chairman Gilman, for the action today. My father was in the Polish army in the late 1930's, 1939, as the war broke out…

there were times and there may still be times in this country today where there are States where you can get married if you are 14 or 15. In my State that is statutory rape. There were times in this country where in many States it took…

Am I further correct that if the parent company has an equity share or profit-sharing relationship to the investment, the parent company also will be subject to sanctions?

Second, if section 5(f)(3) of the bill as amended exempts from the bill's requirement to impose sanctions ``products, technology, or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes in the…

Iranian profits are used to murder innocent civilians on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and those who trade with Iran, like those who traded with the Nazis, irrespective of their murderous act, aid and abet them. The debate we have…

Finally, I would like to draw the gentleman's attention to the concern I expressed in my statement about the prospect that foreign banks may finance oil development in Iran. I would ask the gentleman, does he share my concern?

Third, I was hoping the chairman could explain how section 5(d) of the bill as amended is intended to apply. Am I correct that under section 5(d), if a parent company engages in investment activities that cause the subsidiary to be subject…

class warfare began when the Republicans took control of this House, when they decided it was a higher priority to cut taxes for the wealthiest 1 percent in America and leave seniors and children behind. They want to take seniors and leave…

what we have here today is the first welfare reform bill in the history of this Congress because all the other welfare reform is a fraud if at the end of the day when someone gets their first job they cannot make it work, they cannot pay…

My district is one that has the naval submarine base in Groton. It is something we are all very proud of. The loss that we all feel, the previous speakers have expressed it, there was no one who had a better sense of the average sailor, to…

this pattern is going across committees. Apparently the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Nussle] and the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] instructed committee chairmen to use their government-paid positions for the political purpose which…

I rise to oppose this funding. What is clear here, Mr. Speaker, is that the only thing select about this committee is the selective memory it takes to bring us to this point. In Iran-Contra, Mr. Speaker, we were talking about criminality…

Ron Brown, who was a good friend of many years, and I appeared on a program about 3 weeks into his position as Secretary of Commerce, and I was somewhat nervous for my friend, because the breadth and depth of areas covered by the Commerce…