Alcee Hastings

I kind of question whether a closed rule is fair, but I hear the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey).

What my colleague from Florida ignores is that we could do something today for those same veterans. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), the ranking member of the Committee on Appropriations.

I am convinced of some things: some of my colleagues just do not get it when it comes to human rights. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to my good friend, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen).

I would urge my colleague from Georgia, if he is interested in this colloquy continuing, perhaps it is that he would yield some time to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns), who may in turn yield time to the gentleman from New York…

Reclaiming my time, I cannot believe my colleague would even try to make such a specious argument, but the fact of the matter is there have only been 15 incidents in a country of 300 million people between the years of 2000 and 2005. There…

And reclaiming my time, does the gentleman distinguish between flag burning and other forms of desecration when he cites the 119? I have no memory of a flag burning in recent times. And I am curious to know whether or not you do. Flag…

I thank the chairman, and I agree with him regarding our rhetoric. When I made my references I was referring to the Bush administration and not to the distinguished chairman and other Members in the body. And I stand by those statements…

I thank the gentleman, but sometimes enough is enough and Members want to go home.

Moving right along, I am pleased at this time to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Schiff), my good friend.

Mr. Speaker I am pleased to yield for a unanimous consent request to my good friend, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Watt) from the Judiciary Committee, who had the opportunity to participate in some of those hearings, and is the…

I am privileged to yield for a unanimous consent request to my good friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Meehan). (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I am pleased to yield for a unanimous consent request to my good friend, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Roybal-Allard). (Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Three-quarters of the amendments that were submitted on time pursuant to the chairman's correct direction to the body are not a part of the debate here. The Sensenbrenner amendment, which is rather lengthy, came late to the committee. It…

I take, from the many times when the chairman was in the minority, his statement to heart; and that is that if a rule is not open, it is closed.

Basically, what we have done, we have borrowed money from foreign investors in order that we might go about giving tax cuts, which ultimately will allow that we will pay greater interest on the deficit over a period of time, and your…

It is ironic. We cannot provide the assistance we need to provide here tonight when by a minuscule comparison of funds, this is just a little more than 1 percent of what we are spending in Baghdad.

Were Democrats permitted to attend the conference that the gentleman continues to say was reported out, House Democrats?

I did not say who; I said which of the worker proponent organizations supported the bill. And I thank the gentleman for providing me this list of outstanding organizations that support this measure. But name me the work proponent…

Mr. Speaker, I will be asking for a ``no'' vote on the previous question because I feel this totally closed rule is just plain wrong. There is not one single opportunity for any Member of the House to offer an amendment to this resolution…

Mr. Speaker, I support the underlying bill before us today, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and while the rule is not actually open... It has provisions for medical privacy.

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…

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 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…

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.