Michael Castle

Today, all members of the Armed Forces, including those serving in the Guard and Reserves, receive two-and-a-half days of leave time per month, regardless of whether they're deployed in Iraq or back in the U.S. or at their home base. My…

To the best of my knowledge, absolutely not. We have made the amendment very plain, very clear, so there could not be a roadblock and could not be a slow-down circumstance.

If there is anything in this amendment that I thought would slow down that process further, I would pull the amendment in a minute. The whole idea of this amendment is to compel them to look at what they are doing, give us a report, and…

In closing, I also would like to thank all of the sponsors of this legislation. I would like to thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for the managing of it here, Mr. Kildee, for his interest in this, and Mrs. Miller for coming to the floor…

In response to Chairman Frank, I would just say, he is correct. We have not had that debate, by the way, on the progressive income tax rate. However, he opposes everything with respect to this legislation, leading up to that little squib…

I am a strong believer, as you have indicated as well, that when there are good ideas out there that we should borrow these ideas. I believe this is something we should do. I don't mean to burden Homeland Security with studies, but to me…

I do feel this is an area that we should look into. I am not enough of an expert to specifically recommend how to do it. That is why we are asking for the study in 180 days. There is potential for conflict here, and we are dealing with…

Finally, I would just say Mr. Gerlach and I presented almost identical amendments, and that is how it became the Castle-Gerlach, Gerlach-Castle amendment, because they were very similar. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

Reclaiming my time, I do recognize the problems you have raised, and I do think those are things that we have to consider. I do appreciate everybody's support for the bill. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting…

I would imagine, and I am putting myself in their position and I am not an expert on this, but if you are there and are in the security forces there, you are obviously trained in document recognition to some great degree. Some are better…

I have watched these medals. I have never seen a bit of politics in these medals. I just have not seen it. I do not think the limiting of the numbers is really going to alter that. I think a large part now is because you need all those…

In yielding back, let me just thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Evans) for his service to this country on a couple of fronts, obviously, here in Congress and as a Marine, and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) for his touching…

On that particular subject, there may be times when we do need to put more money into discretionary spending. We may be in one of those times now in terms of the war in Iraq. There may be other emergency things that we have to deal with…

Mr. Speaker, this is all pretty simple. We are passing this Senate bill to extend these programs from the end of March, which is tomorrow, until June 30. Hopefully, in that time the other body will take up the full reauthorization of these…

The Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act makes a number of positive reforms focusing on reaching three main goals: ensuring eligible children have access to services, promoting comprehensive solutions to the health and nutrition…

I just want to thank the representatives from the various territories and from the District of Columbia for actual historical lessons here on the floor. I think it behooves all of us, I recall those comments of the gentleman from Nebraska…

I believe particularly in the areas of just well-being, in nutrition and medicine, it has been a tremendous amount of help. This program has been continued pretty much as is directly from the Federal Government to the local grantees who…

Let me say that we, on this side, are in support of this amendment. I met, I think it was just yesterday actually, or the day before, but with family groups in Delaware, my home State, where we are concerned about autism; and this actually…

I believe that the Vitter amendment moves strongly in the direction of making sure that we are providing oversight to that and doing that through a GAO report. I might also, from a personal point of view, just say that I believe it is one…

I am pleased to rise to oppose this legislation for a variety of reasons. First of all, Congress should not discriminate against bankruptcy cases. Virtually all of our laws allow cases to be filed either where the company is headquartered…

I am not entirely appeased by what I heard. Obviously, I believe the judges should be in there, but I do take your word for it on that basis. Again, this is legislation, in my judgment, we should not be considering at 1:15 in the morning…

Unfortunately, last year Congress and the administration provided Amtrak only $5 million for rail security in comparison to $3.8 billion for the Transportation Security Agency to improve aviation security. In my opinion, this imbalance…

Mr. Speaker, in final closing, I would like to thank the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Davis) and also thank obviously the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Osborne), but also all the other speakers who spoke here today. All these…

I agree completely. Obviously we have that service, we all know about INS; but I will tell the gentleman it is dysfunctional in terms of the way it is working. I think that is a concern that all of us have. It is not that we do not have it…

But if we look at the record, even of the individuals who were the terrorists who came into this country, if we looked at the testimony of the head of INS yesterday, we will find that they do not even know where some of these people came…