Alcee Hastings

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.

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

I would like to add emphasis, in closing, to what the gentlewoman said. She had one amendment that brought to the attention of this body that when a person that is renting pays 133 percent of the total purchase price that they would own…

The gentleman has my assurance that I will do everything I can to strengthen it in the way he has put forward.

Mr. Speaker, I ask the gentleman from New York to look at me: this side of my mouth, that side of my mouth. You are talking out of both sides of your mouth. What you are saying is that, on the one hand, you have 160 pages that you passed…

The President did not know September 11 was going to occur. For God's sake, he is a Texan. Have you ever seen a Texan that knew a fight was coming that did not stand up to give the first slug? He did not sit there. He did not have the…

There are 1,000 people that get a general report on a regular basis that are in the loop, so to speak, about classified information. There are 20 individuals who get a higher clearance and a more detailed and specific report. The report…

In 1996, allegedly, we were supposed to move people from welfare to work. In the State of Florida that I represent, it did not work. So for all of those coming here talking about welfare reform being an unqualified success, let me suggest…

This amendment also includes a number of incentives for reconstruction efforts centered around Ground Zero in New York City and extends the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families supplemental grants program. Frankly, I feel proud that we…

Mr. Speaker, last week I received a call from George Mador. Mr. Mador is the President of L&M Aircraft Services, and he called my office looking for help. L&M is a small aircraft maintenance company that services charter airlines…

I have a very strong feeling that American Airlines should have some of those slots, if we are going to open it, safely, for all of the airlines to be able to undertake to do their responsibilities as well. Mr. Speaker, sometimes…

I applaud, as I have, and commend the efforts and actions of the District's law enforcement agencies and officials. I am equally concerned about the inadequacy of resources available to the District's police and fire departments, however…

This issue is a bipartisan issue. It is one that affects the lives of thousands in South Florida.

I join our colleagues in offering condolences to his family. I got to know him in the way that he is, a quietly effective person who, obviously, is a tremendous patriot and statesman and will be missed by all of us here in this Congress. I…

Please know this, that what we are failing to do is to assist a continent of people who, in the final analysis, are finding their life expectancy, according to reports in today's New York Times, reduced to 30 years of age. Ron Dellums, who…

Firstly, let us have it clearly understood that foreign assistance is an aid to America, it is not a hindrance. When we came to Congress, those of us in 1992, we spent $18 billion in America on foreign assistance. Now we propose in this…

I have had that good fortune of visiting there, and with the entire board; and I have seen their work and they do an extraordinary job, as Asia is developing, in developing the rule of law and in economic reform that is necessary for those…

If there were a national security issue that needs addressing any more important, I cannot quite understand how it could be here on the floor. This is a readiness issue and it should allow, as does Cox-Dicks, for robust, versatile and…

I think the timing is poor, and I agree and associate myself with the remarks of the previous speaker with reference to the preserving of the process. That said, the question is, why would we act unilaterally in declaring war with…

Mr. Chairman, I cannot quarrel with the basic premise. The gentleman answered the question I was going to put to him with reference to genocide. He and I were in the hearing yesterday when Senator Dole talked about the personal experience…

I am just curious if my distinguished colleague has any concern for our credibility in the NATO alliance and whether or not our decision here would impact that alliance.

It gives me great pleasure to enter the remarks of former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton, at the Conference on Preventive Diplomacy and Preventive Disease on January 15, 1999, into the Congressional Record.

Mr. Berger says what I believe is something critical that we need to pay attention to. He says that, "Moreover, the more the United States is perceived as making unilateral, peremptory judgments on the performance of other countries, the…