Alcee Hastings

This resolution restates our commitment to political, religious and economic freedom in Vietnam. It urges the Government of Vietnam to announce a framework and timetable for free and fair elections. It places the Congress of the United…

Some 32 years ago, a handful of underdeveloped and not very influential Southeast Asian countries binded together to create the Association of South East Asian Nations, or ASEAN. I dare say that at the time of ASEAN's founding in 1967, not…

Am I understanding the gentleman correctly that we have his commitment that he will push to ensure that the Haitians receive the same consideration that the Nicaraguans have?

It really is just a sense of the Congress expressing our support for and encouragement of four-party talks between the United States, South Korea, North Korea, and China. Since the Korean peninsula was divided at the end of World War II…

I cannot say that the morale is high in Argentina, I do not know that. I can tell the gentleman about Angola and about Zaire, the former Congo. I can tell the gentleman about the Ukraine, where 25 percent of all of what the Embassy does is…

I was honored and privileged to have the opportunity to travel with this delegation to the areas of Asia that we traveled. A lot has been made about this particular trip, and I was asked when we were in China why it was that I had visited…

In Sweden, where this meeting was held, children are mandated at age 7 to learn English. In Australia, where I visited last year, it is mandatory that their children learn two Asian languages. I am finding it abhorrent that we continue…

There is no question but what that is true, if we were to add to that the mortgage deduction that I benefit from in developing my interests in a home, or any number of aspects of the government's involvement in allowing for the…

Let me ask my colleague, for whom I have great respect, and I certainly have great respect for former Secretary Baker that he mentioned, did he say how this reorganization should take place? And specifically which agency should be…

I join my colleagues in allowing that, among other things, if we had a fair formula in Florida and if we received the taxpayers' fair share, we would not need this exceptional refugee funding. One size does not fit all in this country. We…

I would certainly not condone the overreaction of the store owner in your analog. But putting this in its proper context, there are international laws that countries that are decent observe. This was an indecent act, and that is putting it…

While H.R. 10 is called the Common Sense Legal Reform Act, the more accurate title would be the Citizens' Rights Reduction Act. For more than 200 years, the citizens of the United States have possessed the right by their own States to hold…

Reclaiming my time, do you not think that rule XI with the sanctions enforcement has been utilized such that lawyers are mindful of the existence of that rule and have avoided bringing frivolous litigation to court, and are you not also…

How do you arrive at that objectively? I heard you say a moment ago it was based on what the jury ultimately decides as to whether or not there was ultimate merit. Do you not contemplate excellent litigants being on the defense side or…

Is the gentleman aware that for the last decade, 92 percent of all cases that were filed as civil cases were ultimately settled in Federal Court?

The problem we have is making law by anecdote. As I have listened to the various speakers talk about rather extreme situations, each of those situations may very well have facts that are not put before us at a given time. For example, if…

Let me put two or three additional questions. Is there any provision, perhaps the gentleman from Florida [Mr. McCollum] might join in, that would allow for the addition of Federal judges? And I notice in the litany that was offered of…