Alcee Hastings

The forces of obstruction and oppression of minorities in this country have deep pockets, and they have been and are continuing to do everything they can to cause people not to vote.

We must have a full restoration of the Voting Rights Act in this country, and hearings like this are critically important in accomplishing that goal.

I intend, as chairperson, to build and maintain active U.S. engagement in the OSCE, based on principled foreign policy.

Somewhere along the line we have to, through multilateralism, find green enough pastures for all of these children to land in safe spaces.

Let's judge our partners and friends, not by number of laws they have adopted but by the effectiveness with which they are implementing these laws.

How do you plan to use your chairmanship to advance the goals of this declaration?

I intend as chairperson to build and maintain active U.S. engagement in the OSCE based on principled foreign policy.

Corruption is--unfortunately, it's a plague that is present in the society.

How OSCE countries address migration is becoming key to the preservation of democracy, people, and unity.

But what we need to do is to demonstrate to the Ukrainian people that the international community is with them.

I do think that its disadvantages outweigh its advantages, and that it ultimately will not work with a budget as complex and as fraught with partisanship as ours.

The goal is to restore the ecosystem, which will also ensure that people have clean water and flood protection.

I feel they have a moral obligation to undertake to do better.

This just further aggravates the situation faced by veteran families that are living on a pension.

I would urge my friend from Washington--I understand his passion and the need to stay on message about gas prices, but we're here talking about House Resolution 1298, which is the Bay Hills Indian Community, the land settlement matter with…

Yes, but that wasn't a privilege lost, that was just an airline not working. Reclaiming my time, I wanted my friend to have an opportunity to say those things that he did. And notwithstanding his admonition, I can assure him that when he…

Mr. Speaker, the American public has a vested interest in protecting our Nation's lands from the destructive uses that would ruin their natural beauty. In my home State of Florida, the protection and preservation of the magnificent…

I genuinely find myself in the position of concern that I believe a significant number of Americans share. We have passed, out of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, a measure that will provide health care to many of this…

There is a requirement for countries to participate in the extractive industries reporting. Basically what we are doing is, for the first time, asking the Secretary of State to encourage countries to participate in EITI. EITI is to be…

I would urge him to know that with staff, the distinguished Chair of the Intelligence Committee and many other Members, and Ms. Harman from her Chair on Homeland Security, and countless others in the minority as well, have worked day and…

I thought that it would be helpful if I would join my very good friend, who is a member of the 30-somethings, and have him know that those of us that are the over 30-somethings have the exact same sentiments as it pertains to the…

Just to say, Mr. Chairman, you know there is another component to all of this, and that is that the 16,000 air traffic controllers and the people that work in these modern facilities are overburdened, and I just for the life of me do not…

I agree our amendment, after his, does, I believe, what is necessary, and that is to answer the question that a lot of us have with reference to the efficiency and effectiveness of the National Director of Intelligence. If I could just…

Now, today more than ever, we must make the creation of a strong and flexible intelligence apparatus one of the highest, highest priorities of this body. The terrorist attacks of September 11, combined with the continuing threat of further…

I might add, that period of time, particularly in the last 2 months, we have seen that when the minority has presented the motion to recommit, that what winds up happening is even Members of the minority don't know what is in the motion to…