Alcee Hastings

Mr. Speaker, what we have just seen is a powerful demonstration of women and two men that represent nearly 13 million people in the United States of America. One would think that this highly contentious Head Start reauthorization bill…

I labored through that with agricultural interests in Florida; and I think that we could point significantly to the North American Free Trade Agreement as causative of our concern. I suggest to him that when CAFTA ultimately comes that he…

I am not that generous because among the things that I believe that are likely to happen is that we are going to see substantive legislation here on the floor of the House under the suspension calendar. And when that happens that means it…

This amendment directs the Director of Central Intelligence to establish a pilot program to improve the recruitment, hiring, and retention of ethnic and cultural minorities throughout the Intelligence Community.

I also am happy to support the resolution offered by the chairman of the Helsinki Commission and to compliment the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) for his continuing work in the area of human rights and the gentleman from California…

I wonder what those funds could possibly have done for the children of America? I, for one, would have preferred to spend it on them, rather than on rich people. Child abuse is an important issue. It has many, many manifestations. It is…

That is why I cringe when I see Congress preparing to pass a constitutional amendment that would rewrite the first amendment for the first time ever to ban a form of protest. It is particularly hard for me, as an American war veteran to…

what I merely was suggesting was that the majority's bill will eliminate forests and if it eliminates forests then there will not be any wildfires.

I had hoped today that we would have a fair and balanced rule. Traditionally, when the Committee on Resources...violates everything the Republicans promised in the 'Contract on America' when they took over the House.

That does not help very much in a free and open society in what is supposed to be the most deliberative body in the world. That has been curtailed and democracy loses when we close our rules, and democracy loses here today. Regarding the…

I would urge my good friend from Florida, and he is my good friend, to take into consideration when we decry downward departures that the people that are on the firing line, the Article III judges, make those departures after very careful…

Mr. Speaker, most respectfully, the majority leader's comments are taken not lightly by any of us. But I would urge that we understand that this law that we are passing establishes new separate departure procedures and standards for…

I rise today not in support or opposition to the legislation before this body, but rather to bring to this body's attention the Majority's lack of consideration and complete disregard to issues of environmental justice. Yesterday, during…

Mr. Speaker, let me say this in closing. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns) and I live very close to Orlando. I was born and raised in Alta Mont Springs that is 10 miles north of Orlando. I will not be in Orlando when the National…

I am asking Members to vote ``no,'' not to stop consideration of the Sensenbrenner bill; but so we can receive our own vote on a clean AMBER Alert.

I rise to support the budget of the Blue Dogs, which I think handles our short-term needs and our long-term concerns.

I would remind the distinguished chairman, my friend, that we did have 31 amendments last night; none of them have been allowed to come to the floor.

Every time we deny an open amendment process on an important piece of legislation, we are disenfranchising the people and their representatives from the legislative process. The people and their representatives are not even being treated…

from the earliest of time, man has yearned to explore the unknown--to chart the distant stars. This unquenchable spirit to learn what is beyond the horizon, or over the next hill, is part of who we are. As Americans, this character is…

When I came to this body, I had no idea that I would have the privilege to serve on the Committee on Rules. When I was given that opportunity, it became the proudest moment in my limited congressional career. Last night, before we left…

And that the funding level, although we have problems in the Nation, may not be enough to cover the ports of the United States?

Mr. Speaker, the House engages in a very important debate today. It is a debate about priorities like the economy, Social Security, and education. More fundamentally, it is a debate about whether the American people will have a Congress…

we are about to set the course for our nation's foreign policy that will impact the rest of this century, and we are about to decide the destiny of many of our young men and women. There is not doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein poses a…

I do ask a question, if this bill is supposed to be the end all, be all, then will someone please explain to me what would have been wrong with accepting the amendments that were very thoughtful, that were offered by Members of the House…

Defeating the previous question as proposed by the gentleman will allow us to permanently extend Chapter 12 protection for farmers. The House has already voted on three separate occasions in this Congress to extend these bankruptcy…